Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 2 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 3 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 4 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 5 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 6 | A large black cat with tattered ears appeared and strolled unconcernedly through the maze of feet to rub itself against her legs . |
| 7 | Crews has referred to ‘ a self-congratulatory hermeticism whose purpose seems to lie somewhere between the dropping of names , the displaying of tidbits of esoterica , and the muddling of agency ’ , and Tallis has written a cruel parody of Hartman 's prose . |
| 8 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 9 | The redundancies come on top of five hundred already announced by the firm over the past eighteen months , mostly as a result of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 10 | The emergency ward was over-flowing with casualties , mostly as a result of police assault . |
| 11 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 12 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 13 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 15 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 16 | There was two of them w wi with a Range Rover the other morning er with all sorts of notices and the following morning they had a motorcyclist er hidden behind the hedge as it were er that seemed to obviously put things right for a couple of days . |
| 17 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 18 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 19 | The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave . |
| 20 | No previous study of Scottish medieval prices exists , mainly because information on the subject is scarce , and scattered widely through a number of sources . |
| 21 | It may strike you as unusual but , once mastered , it can be used very quickly and effectively for a variety of purposes : |
| 22 | The emphasis in the first two years in the English classroom is on consolidating basic linguistic competence and ensuring that the pupils can read , comprehend and write effectively for a variety of purposes , including imaginative , argumentative and reflective writing . |
| 23 | Even this can be ‘ ungreen ’ , mostly through the use of pesticides and fertilisers . |
| 24 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 25 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 26 | The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years , creating deep divisions within respectable society . |
| 27 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 28 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 29 | It will be treated rather as a set of conditions relating to the sale of goods or the supply of work and materials for the purposes of the comparative analysis carried out in this chapter . |
| 30 | The creation of the enterprise culture in deprived areas of the North and the ‘ inner cities ’ is fundamentally about the creation of jobs at lower wages than were previously viewed as acceptable and reducing entitlement to benefit and levels of benefit in order to increase the incentive to take on these jobs . |