Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances , Dunwoody , who escaped with nothing worse than bruises , was performing a miracle of tolerant good sense when he suggested that the Mildmay fences ‘ should perhaps be a bit more sloped and not quite so square at the top . ’ |
| 2 | On the whole , they were not favoured in the allocation of regional selective assistance where there was an element of discretion on the part of the Department of Industry . |
| 3 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ This is already an area of outstanding natural beauty and we would welcome the extra money without the extra bureaucracy . ’ |
| 5 | A few moments of complete mental instability when you were unscrupulous enough to take advantage of me . |
| 6 | They despise the received good taste of garish Italianate fashion and its social connotations : too flashy and cashy . |
| 7 | The wisdom of the ancient world saw that it is in our points of greatest personal weakness that we are most defensive , and where we compensate addictively in our emotions . |
| 8 | Unless the externality can be priced ( charging suburban users but not city dwellers for entry to subsidized galleries and opera houses ) , the most efficient solution is to widen the geographical area of each local government until it includes most of the people who will use the public services it provides . |
| 9 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |
| 10 | The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur . |
| 11 | The reflex is a component of normal anorectal behaviour and its integrity is assessed routinely during the investigation of patients with disordered anorectal function . |
| 12 | Terlipressin ( glypressin ) and somatostatin have been advocated as effective drugs in the management of acute variceal haemorrhage but there are no published reports of their use specifically in the elderly . |
| 13 | Although acute and an emergency at presentation , they do not fall within the definition used here of acute renal failure as they do not have adequate recovery . |
| 14 | They had drunk pots of strong black coffee and he had to leave at 8 . |
| 15 | On a global basis there is a fairly strong relationship between lithospheric vulnerability and the distribution of hot spots ; few hot spots are to be found in areas of low lithospheric vulnerability whereas they are common in areas of high vulnerability . |
| 16 | After tea that day they all gathered in the kitchen and Mum brought out two great big bags full of dry brown stuff that she bought in the flower shop . |
| 17 | It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies . |
| 18 | Sure he has rights and there is a sense in which he is a member of that civil society while he 's here but he does n't have full political rights , he 's not a full member . |
| 19 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 20 | Institutions can directly reflect political circumstances , and there can be no divorce between the implications of that feudal relationship and its expression in ‘ constitutional ’ forms — in appellate jurisdiction , in the devices used to delay homage or evade services , or in the administrative expedients whereby rights and revenues were upheld and increased . |
| 21 | Make sure that the amount of the payment is the net sum mentioned in the Deed of Covenant or the appropriate proportion of that net sum if you wish to pay by quarterly or monthly instalments . |
| 22 | To Wilson , it had seemed all of a piece , all part of her own unhappiness , of that weary feeling that nothing mattered , nothing , no amount of effort could alter what was to happen . |
| 23 | Got the old watering can and then you get down on this plant , and then when they get a gist of that first time that they go whooo , you wake up in the morning , you 've got co , conifers like Jack and The Beanstalk coming |
| 24 | It reminded her of that other occasion when she had driven Freddie Nash and she wondered whether they were destined to find themselves together battling against the elements . |
| 25 | But the people who say that have many children , so how can they know of that other pain that I have ? |
| 26 | On entering the solar , Joan was reminded of that other visit and what had come after — and was all but overwhelmed by distress . |
| 27 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied , ‘ I shall be thinking of that poor man and his little boy all night . ’ |
| 28 | But the other quarter — the professional bit — is so relieved to see the end of that ghastly place that it ca n't help rejoicing in a perverse sort of way . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There 's more of that rich stew if you want it . ’ |
| 30 | He wanted to get out of that hated house and everything it represented . |