Example sentences of "[adj] of [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 2 | Okay you , I mean is any of this of any use to you ? |
| 3 | Notes are so often hard to understand , even for the person who wrote them , and yet they should be the most transparently clear of all means of communication . |
| 4 | He and Mallachy , between themselves , called her the Wee Green Patriot , but steered clear of all argument on the subject . |
| 5 | The landlord hereby demises unto the Tenant ALL THAT messuage or dwelling-house with the outbuildings and garden attached thereto and forming part thereof known as Number 10 Downing Lane Old Fableland in the County of Humberside which premises are outlined in red on the Plan annexed to these presents EXCEPT AND RESERVING AND SUBJECT to the exceptions and reservations set out in the Schedule hereto TO HOLD the same unto the Tenant from the 25th day of December 1986 for the term of seven years PAYING therefore the net yearly rent of £2500 clear of all deductions by equal quarterly instalments commencing on the 25th day of December 1986 next and thereafter on the usual quarter days . |
| 6 | Presumably they were thrown clear of these planets by the impact of yet bigger meteorites . |
| 7 | Three mounted officers rode into the field after the volley , but Sharpe had spurred well clear of any threat from the three men . |
| 8 | He should insist that the correct wing is held , and direct the car or tractor driver so that they take a safe route which is clear of any hazard from dropping winch cables . |
| 9 | It means that any office development or commercial of this kind in this I twelve policy that was to occur in Harrogate would not be counted off the sixty hectares of em erm of I five allocation , it would be in addition to it , and that may be a very important breakthrough for us . |
| 10 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 11 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 12 | Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once . |
| 13 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 14 | Furthermore , half of all mothers on welfare come off it within two years ( Daly , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Those aged 65 + account for approximately half of all expenditure on the NHS . |
| 16 | In the Netherlands , by contrast , over half of all journeys by senior schoolchildren are made by cycle . |
| 17 | It was estimated that the yakuza consisted of some 3,300 separate gangs , although the three largest organizations — the Yamagushi-gumi , the Inagawa-kai and the Sumiyoshi-kai — were responsible for almost half of all activity by the gangs . |
| 18 | However , in women , Cystitis is one of the most common medical problems today , which affects around half of all women at some time in their lives . |
| 19 | On this measure , one quarter of all men in work , and half of all women in work are now in the sector offering numerical flexibility ’ ( p. 93 ) . |
| 20 | These people will still be entitled to all the investment returns on the with-profits element of their investment — which accounts on average for about half of all investment into UWP contracts — but they will only be entitled to 60 per cent of the infrastructure profits on both the with-profits and the unit-linked business . |
| 21 | The Secondary sector provided more than half of all employment between 1851 and 1921 , but ended the period , as it began , with 48 per cent . |
| 22 | These cause half of all deaths in infancy and one in 10 childhood deaths in hospital . |
| 23 | Is it not astounding that half of all crime in Britain is committed by people under the age of 21 ? |
| 24 | The Tertiary sector was already larger than the Primary in 1841 and provided virtually half of all jobs by 1961 : it advanced most markedly between 1911 and 1931 . |
| 25 | The Government Actuary 's 1983 and 1987 surveys show that , during the years since the 1975 survey , about half of all men in private sector employment had access to occupational pension provision . |
| 26 | He said the issue of knife carrying was a major concern to Scottish people and the police and that recent statistics showed that half of all murders in Strathclyde had involved knives . |
| 27 | In a book published last year by the Royal Institute of International Affairs , ‘ Global Companies and Public Policy ’ , DeAnne Julius estimated that trade between firms and their overseas affiliates accounts for more than half of all trade between OECD countries . |
| 28 | At least half of all fetuses with the syndrome have a congenital heart defect , and many others have bowel atresias . |
| 29 | Nearly half of all schools in England were closed . |
| 30 | Two weeks before the Department of Education publishes its nationwide league tables of school results , the Daily Post has compiled its own figures , with half of all schools in the region agreeing to participate . |