Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [det] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Understandably , whilst we are all concerned with crime we hear little of burglary and yet we have something like 60 new reported crimes a day the vast majority are burglaries and I just wish we could do more about those crimes . |
| 32 | We find much of concern in the current vituperative condemnation of clinical ecology . |
| 33 | By subjecting the curriculum contents of higher education to criticism , we subject much of society 's cognitive structure ( and thereby much of modern society itself ) to criticism . |
| 34 | Now if if the management at home heard me doing this of course er giving you a choice but I believe in it . |
| 35 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 36 | They make much of tobacco being a ‘ legal product ’ which it should therefore , they allege , be legal to advertise . |
| 37 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 38 | Breathing fumes over patients when they 're not feeling well and nauseated and then they get this of garlic . |
| 39 | But the reason why they do that of course is they would like you to keep coming back |
| 40 | They said little of importance during the meal , but Jane had the feeling that he was watching her , though in a kindly , not a critical way . |
| 41 | If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama . |
| 42 | It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest . |
| 43 | First , he has a scholar 's knowledge of , and passion for , opera — he writes many of Opera North 's programme notes , and very good they are too . |
| 44 | Nor should he , for he has much of value to say . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , it contains much of value and of topical interest , and an extensive bibliography . |
| 46 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 47 | It covered most of South Wales west to Milford Haven and north to Llandyssul , in England north to Hereford and Wolverhampton and of course the famous main line all the way to Penzance with its branches . |
| 48 | Carefully thought out , it lists all of Leger 's exhibitions , but , more importantly , reproduces in colour a large selection of the finest paintings which have passed through their hands . |
| 49 | In an impressive performance he delivered enough of substance , together with a dose of populism , to satisfy his side of the Commons . |
| 50 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 51 | He saw little of Raven . |
| 52 | He knew little of health administration before accepting the position but has become an expert during four years of radical change in the NHS . |
| 53 | Becoming a Christian is not the solution and the answer and the th the grand elixir , it solves all of life 's problems , it takes away all the difficulties . |
| 54 | Dropped for the Adelaide Test , he returned for the final contest , at Melbourne , where 90,800 attended on the second day , and though he did little of note , he was with Mackay at the end as Australia scraped in by two wickets . |
| 55 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 56 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 57 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 58 | I , I , I do n't know why he talks that of attitude but there we are . |