Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else . |
| 2 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 3 | His skin secretes a great deal of mucus which both keeps the young attached and prevents them from drying out . |
| 4 | However , in the 1980s , government 's repeated sudden and confused demands for economy created a great deal of uncertainty which actually led many authorities to abandon what planning systems they had created . |
| 5 | Thus , in a thoroughly typical way , man , who is not endowed with an instinctive love of animals or care for them , achieves the ability to make a success of animal-husbandry as a form of economic life by channelling his otherwise rampant aggressiveness back against himself as a force of conscience which frequently expresses itself in pastoral cultures as a vengeful and recriminating god of the sky . |
| 6 | At the foot of the steps they greeted him ; each in his turn bowing before Tsu Ma ; each bending to kiss the ring of power he now wore ; each embracing him warmly before repeating the same eight words . |
| 7 | Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element . |
| 8 | The form which NICRA took , therefore , was determined by the coalition of forces which actually came together to create it , of which the republicans were only one element . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 10 | For the regulationists history , to use a delightful phrase of Aglietta 's , is ‘ innovatory ’ : there is no cyclical repetition but a succession of phases which only emerge and come to an end as a resuIt of their own characteristics and particular historical circumstances . |
| 11 | During his term as President of FISA he gradually reduced his role in Eduard Keller Ltd and used the company offices to provide a world headquarters for rowing . |
| 12 | In each case there is a copper core with a plating of silver which superficially appears to be identical on the two coins . |
| 13 | In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle . |
| 14 | As the skin matures these fibres become distorted , causing loss of elasticity which often results in wrinkles & lines and should be supplemented to ensure a younger , smoother look and feel . |
| 15 | Here is a typical sentence from an RPF speech ( 18 June 1949 ) : " The new threat may not be far away ; while the horizon darkens , we see those waves of baseness which often precede the hurricane … |
| 16 | The parliaments of 1931 and 1935 contained an unprecedented number of groups and remnants , apart from the solid bloc of Conservatives who always constituted a majority . |
| 17 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 18 | Some important insights have been gained from the study of people who voluntarily undertake frightening events as part of a sport . |
| 19 | Then , eighteen months later , we had an exceptional stroke of luck which entirely transformed the position . |
| 20 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 21 | The concluding Fugue , for example , exhibits a clarity and lightness of texture which once again serves to negate the label of prolixity which for too long has been attached to Reger . |
| 22 | On Aug. 5 security forces shot and wounded at least three supporters of Halidi who allegedly disturbed a meeting of government sympathizers in Mutsamudu , Nzwani ( formerly Anjouan ) island . |
| 23 | Their shadow images , like our own lives , are seen as merely the surface reflection of an unseen fabric of energy which majestically moves beyond time . |
| 24 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 25 | The initial vulnerability of the new born is expressed in Denis Creffield 's Anxious Baby ( 1983 ) and here the parallels with those popular images of childhood which constantly interpenetrate and interrupt our day-to-day routine are obvious . |
| 26 | Because of the happy ambiguity Constantine found that all but two bishops were willing and able to sign the creed and canons , including Eusebius of Caesarea who promptly published an open letter indicating in what sense he interpreted the creed and anathemas . |
| 27 | A security officer from a nearby building appeared with a piece of metal which possibly had been used to attack the meter . |
| 28 | One piece of equipment I really liked on the Mercedes was the wiper system — a single arm that dips in the middle of its strokes to maximise its sweep . |
| 29 | It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief . |
| 30 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |