Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 2 | The principal explanation is likely to be that so characteristic of English educational provision , where the strength of local initiatives is also a weakness ; where central government 's desire to support and disseminate a variety of innovative practices at the local level can lead to confusion and contradiction in national policy-making . |
| 3 | The crucial difference , however , is that over half of this amount went on defence ( which is comparable to the USA ) whereas in the EEC the proportion was one-quarter and in Japan zero . |
| 4 | The answer to these doubts is that not one of these three measures is adequate on its own , and that all three should be taken together to give a proper guide to costs . |
| 5 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 6 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 7 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 8 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 9 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 10 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 12 | The fact is that very little of the old Fleet Street ‘ formation ’ has survived into the 90s . |
| 13 | Having said all of this my experience with patients is that very few of them persist in taking their LM remedy until they begin to prove it and who can blame them ! |
| 14 | Perhaps of greater importance , however , is that only half of liveborn infants with aneuploidies have Down 's syndrome . |
| 15 | I think one of the problems with this legislation right now is that too many of the discussions with regard to the bill are being made on a political basis . |
| 16 | One of the things that 's wrong with British shipping is that too much of it is in the hands of ancient mariners , dyed-in-the-wool shipping families that have n't had a new idea since the days of sail . |
| 17 | Well it 's and how many of you would want the break ? |
| 18 | Erm I now have a list of all our stock , which means I know where it all is and how much of it there is which is nice but not directly relevant to this meeting . |
| 19 | But that is because so much of my summer activity revolves around boats and the sea — other people may well have different ‘ season indicators ’ . |
| 20 | But none of the Oxford goal scorers are actually in the national charts , but we were saying it 's because so many of them are scoring , Foyle , Magilton , Nogan , Simpson and Stein — all have scored seven or more . |
| 21 | A second characteristic of the collaboration in these classrooms was that so much of it appeared to arise spontaneously . |
| 22 | A second , and deeper , cause of the depression was that too much of the income from the prosperous 20s was going into too few hands . |
| 23 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 24 | US information was that about 150 of Gen Morgan 's men stormed Kismayu on Monday and fought forces of a rival warlord , Omer Jess . |
| 25 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |
| 26 | This was because so many of the non-SERC students had been sponsored/seconded onto IT Advanced Courses by an educational employer , typically a university or polytechnic . |