Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They will pay up to £50,000 of legal costs whether you go to court or not , as well as fees and expenses for any personal injury claims . |
| 2 | It may be described using the statistics of random walks but it must be noted that even this can not be exactly true , since by its very nature the chain must avoid itself . |
| 3 | It is a fact that exercise is of general benefit to people of all ages because it is necessary for the optimum function , structure and preservation of muscles , bones , joints , and the heart . |
| 4 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 5 | For a better understanding and greater co-operation between people of different religions that we may build trust and friendship among our neighbours of other faiths to promote true peace … |
| 6 | The Goldsmiths heard by means of anonymous reports that he was often absent , attending meetings of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Co. during school hours , and also that he had become Rector of Northenden . |
| 7 | The whole process was serviced and kept running by as exceptional a staff of civil servants as I ever worked with in over ten years as a Cabinet minister . |
| 8 | One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved . |
| 9 | They exchanged recipes like a pair of old women and we departed . |
| 10 | I was kitted out with a one size too large pair of old EBs and we were ready for the re-education process . |
| 11 | I mean at least I do get a pair of smart shoes and they were lovely those shoes all day |
| 12 | My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out : |
| 13 | Tweed was clad in shirt sleeves and a pair of lightweight slacks as he stared out of his office window . |
| 14 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | Such intrusions , which rarely attain the dimensions of batholiths , are known as lopoliths and their layered structure tends to lead to the formation of series of outward-facing scarps as they are exposed by erosion . |
| 17 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 18 | Downes fitted a hearing-aid taken from his pocket into his right ear , the aid promptly emitting a series of shrill whistles as he fiddled rather fecklessly with the controls . |
| 19 | To which we add a whole series of other factors that we then kick around and argue over . |
| 20 | They broke through a series of locked doors until they reached the finance department . |
| 21 | But , almost at the end of the ascent , there came a new series of alarming jerks and they juddered to a halt once more . |
| 22 | Muscle cells , too , go through a series of characteristic changes as they mature . |
| 23 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 24 | Graham Frater , our HMI Observer , continually reminded us of the hordes of textbook publishers who might reduce our recommendations to a series of useless exercises if we did not make our rationale abundantly clear . |
| 25 | However , growth hormone , like other hormones , is released in a series of short bursts and it is the frequency of these that is increased just after sleep onset ( see fig. 3.2 ) . |