Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 2 | Risks of biotechnology and their regulation |
| 3 | The handmaids of the Everqueen are not mere courtiers ; they are her warrior guard — a hundred beautiful Elf-maids schooled in the arts of war till they exceed or even surpass the greatest of Elf knights with sword , bow and lance . |
| 4 | * Develop a register for your academic writing which avoids characteristics of speech but which you can still comfortably read aloud ( see pp. 73 – 4 ) . |
| 5 | Kodak , for example , is beginning to reap the same sorts of advantage as it carefully allocates supply among all its producing units . |
| 6 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 7 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 8 | So , too , were the practical demonstrations of getting comfortable , breathing exercises and familiarisation with the sorts of equipment that we might encounter during the labour itself . |
| 9 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 10 | They 're very supportive , but they 're not the sorts of theatre where you want to open . ’ |
| 11 | Their main concern is in divulging the sorts of fuel that they use to generate power . |
| 12 | ‘ I do think that men and women have different sorts of friendship and I 'm not sure that wives can ever understand male friendships . |
| 13 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 14 | There was also a noting of a physical pattern ‘ … a physically produced rhythm … the sorts of rhythm that your hand makes automatically ’ . |
| 15 | You 're talking about all sorts of geography that I did n't study at school . |
| 16 | On Sunday I put on Songs of Praise and she 's right in her element . |
| 17 | All they had done was to pick ears of corn as they walked along , rub them in their hands and eat the grain . |
| 18 | You 'll also find lots of leaflets available from main showrooms which tell you how much appliances cost to run , how to cut down on costs , and helpful methods of payment if you have to economise drastically . |
| 19 | It 's certainly true that the methods of treatment that we use in miocenia gravis at the moment are not specific . |
| 20 | ‘ We have seen the option of ‘ further use ’ being used in the past as a gateway to all sorts of possible bad and environmentally unfriendly methods of disposal and we want that loophole closed ’ . |
| 21 | Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based . |
| 22 | The Germans intensified and brutalized their methods of interrogation until it was quite usual for a prisoner who refused to talk to be kept in solitary confinement under intentionally unpleasant conditions for weeks . |
| 23 | Only brief attention will be given to traditional methods of appraisal as they have little to offer to either the public or private sector . |
| 24 | It only slowed down on nearing the outskirts of Teplyystan where it turned off on to a narrow road leading into the Bittsevsky forest park , a panoramic landscape of ravines and gorges layered with fir , oak and pine plantations . |
| 25 | He had his legs crossed , and he was smoking an old pipe , from which came a vile smell and great plumes of smoke as he puffed at it . |
| 26 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 27 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 28 | A stove in the corner of the little room was giving out great waves of heat and there was the smell of leather , sweat and cigar smoke which seemed to hang in all German guard-rooms . |
| 29 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 30 | They even began to assign personalities to those blobs of jelly that we collected . |