Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 3 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 4 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 5 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 6 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 7 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 8 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 9 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 10 | The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital . |
| 11 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 12 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 13 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 14 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 15 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 16 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 17 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother did n't make that kind of mistake . ’ |
| 19 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think we should make that sort of speculation without any evidence , ’ she snapped . |
| 22 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 23 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 24 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 25 | As for toilet facilities , I have an earth closet so the lack of water does not affect that side of things . |
| 26 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 27 | Ah well you eat that bit of toast , I 'll leave it there . |
| 28 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 29 | It is impossible to perform each stage of production simultaneously . |
| 30 | Each week , you will be concentrating on eating specific group of foods and carefully noting any reactions or changes in your physical or mental well-being that may occur . |