Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I sat next to Grant at a private screening of Just Like a Woman . |
2 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
3 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
4 | It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down . |
5 | WITH no obvious metamorphosis , the Diary spent part of yesterday among an organisation called Teesside Women at a ‘ meet the politicians ’ lunch . |
6 | I was kind of like in the middle |
7 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
8 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
9 | So we 're er we 're sort of well down the list as far as that 's concerned . |
10 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
11 | And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't . |
12 | Then he came in er sort of right at the end said , well look , I 'm so cheesed off with you lot |
13 | I mean you 're you 're not sort of right in the centre of town , but |
14 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
15 | It 's sort of more like a pyjama top than a blazer . |
16 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
17 | Well you could have gone sort of like round the Rainbow and that way on . |
18 | No and you see it 's just them two I think they could put him sort of like in the hall and if there 's a |
19 | I have n't seen any primroses sort of like in the hedges yet |
20 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
21 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
22 | Hume described Berkeley 's attack on abstract ideas as ‘ the most important development of late in the republic of letters ’ . |
23 | He was preparing a series of six documentaries with the overall title of Once in a Lifetime and said the situation regarding the Women of the Year lunch fitted in perfectly . |
24 | Even Richard Branson had to take his Virgin group private with Japanese backing to prosper , while Anita Roddick 's Body Shop , riding the environmental bandwagon , has taken a hammering of late in the stock market . |
25 | Psychometric tests which attempt to measure students ' ability to use the library have been developed and made use of primarily in the USA . |
26 | These men and women always belong to and are made sense of only as a part of the collective — the race , the nation , the state , the republic , the class , etc . |
27 | It reveals that man is essentially cast in the mode of being-in-the-world , and moreover that the world itself can be made sense of only in the context of man 's own " projects " . |
28 | Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling . |
29 | There will be the same amount of overfly after the turn from the outbound leg . |
30 | Durkheim commented on the difficulty of regarding ‘ an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage ’ , but he provided the reminder that ‘ the most primitive religions are not the only ones which have attributed this power of propagation to the sacred character ’ . |