Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 2 | Colin Sheaf , who will auction Vung Tau , rang me from Hong Kong to say there was a great deal of interest there and in Singapore in the cargo , and catalogues were selling fast . |
| 3 | Was n't a great deal of trouble in but th there was in the East End of London if you , if you we can read , can read about that . |
| 4 | There 's a great deal of room inside and excellent headroom — a child can stand up inside . |
| 5 | Pupils ' responses in individual interviews ( quoted , for example , in Dickson et al. , 1984 , pp. 262–3 ) support this perception of learners actively and logically seeking solutions . |
| 6 | Mitres are folded at the corners of hems to distribute the bulk of fabric evenly and neatly . |
| 7 | Dent Town suffered its gradual loss of status passively and withdrew into its shell , content to look after its own affairs exclusively and be bypassed by a changing world . |
| 8 | This ‘ centralization and internationalization of capital ’ knew no political boundaries , and the UK in particular was prone to a loss of investment overseas and increased imports ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 9 | From 20 November 1992 , the interest rate on unpaid tax and repayment supplement for income tax , capital gains tax , development land tax , corporation tax ( including advance corporation tax ) , petroleum revenue tax ( including advance petroleum revenue tax ) , supplementary petroleum duty , Stamp Duty Reserve Tax , and on tax charged by an assessment for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to failure or error by the taxpayer , is reduced from 7.75% to 7% . |
| 10 | From 6 November 1992 the rate of interest on unpaid tax and repayment supplement for income tax , capital gains tax , development land tax , corporation tax ( including advance corporation tax ) , petroleum revenue tax ( including advance petroleum revenue tax ) , supplementary petroleum duty , Stamp Duty Reserve Tax , and on tax charged by an assessment for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to failure or error by the taxpayer , is reduced from 9.25% to 7.75% . |
| 11 | The structures of the two programs are different in many respects and where they are similar this is the result of coincidence only or because they are constrained by the function — no infringement of copyright . |
| 12 | The bed beside her was empty , but there were men in the yard : she could see a glimmer of light between the shutters and hear a flotsam of voices now and then , when the wind died . |
| 13 | to identify a number of compatible ideas , procedures and concepts which will enable the work on one discipline to inform the work of others in the study of policy generally and addiction policy in particular ; and |
| 14 | Sawdust in the gear-boxes , the electric-drill on the speedometer cables , a splash of paint here and there and a few other clever little tricks and the idiots were all falling over themselves to buy . ’ |
| 15 | Example 2:10 Right to use passenger lift The right at all times in connection with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) to use the lifts in the building for the carriage of passengers only and their hand luggage provided that the landlord shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a temporary failure of the lifts . |
| 16 | Example 2:11 Right to use passenger and goods lift The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right during normal office hours to use : ( 1 ) the lift marked on the attached plan for the carriage of passengers only and their hand luggage ( 2 ) the lift marked on the attached plan for the carriage of goods provided that the lift shall not be loaded in excess of the permitted weight displayed therein |
| 17 | The importance of Irwin 's triumph was that it seemed both classical and prototypical — an exemplification of triumphs past and a portent of triumphs to come . |
| 18 | We may know what practices and particularly his own what what he can he tell me about what er the practice of solicitors up and down the country ? |
| 19 | He wants to grasp the nature or the practice of ideology scientifically and characterizes ‘ ideology ’ as whole , unified by its problematic and dependent on the social situation in which it occurs . |
| 20 | If you take erm Depends on the shape of them , but very often if you put a piece of newspaper round and then face the corner of one into the into you could put one into the bottom of the next and do it in a square . |
| 21 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 22 | But Cad took in their neglect of her sister , and she put down her piece of bread steadily and stood to leave . |
| 23 | The stove remains quite a complex piece of engineering however and careful handling and maintenance is necessary . |
| 24 | In 1979 , J. A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics , made the point that : " it is still quite common to hear the constitution described — even lovingly described — as a piece of machinery cleverly and subtly constructed to enable the will of the people to be transmitted through its elected representatives who make laws instructing its principal committee , the Cabinet , how to administer the affairs of the state , with the help of an impartial civil service and under the benevolent wisdom of a neutral judiciary . |
| 25 | She read the piece of paper again and again . |
| 26 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 27 | and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again |
| 28 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 29 | Men and women had fought in the College of Surgeons opposite and British soldiers had fired upon them from the roof of this very hotel . |
| 30 | Overall , it 's best to leave the photographs out of the electronic side of things altogether and get them reproduced optically for you by your printer . |