Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
| 2 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 3 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |
| 4 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 5 | There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese . |
| 6 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 7 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 8 | Unlike the Jakob cats , Griselda spent a good deal of time out of doors . |
| 9 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 10 | Many people see the penis as a joke ; although I 've never got a great deal of amusement out of mine . |
| 11 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
| 12 | There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree . |
| 13 | If we understand people as continually persisting in what we have earlier termed ‘ identity projects ’ it need come as no surprise to find increasingly affluent households necessarily consuming pastiche , the extraction of history out of context , and superficiality as a normal way of life . |
| 14 | In Italy , a general strike in May 1922 , enabled Mussolini 's Fascists to drive the Communist Administration of Bologna out of office , and later that year , Mussolini unseated the government and handed over the administration to the King and the Army , which left the Italian King with little alternative but to ask Mussolini to form a new government , which was sworn-in on 31st . |
| 15 | Dealers said there was also some buying of pounds out of Singapore . |
| 16 | Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven . |
| 17 | Avoiding the big European states , and ignoring Cold War political boundaries , Germany 's leading poet discovers a continent of countries out of step with history and with each other . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , ’ says Howard wittily , ‘ trying to get the fear of God out of them . ’ |
| 19 | I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it . |
| 20 | He set down the plate and taking a piece of newspaper out of his pocket wrapped the fat up and put it in his pocket . |
| 21 | In the same way that alternative therapies such as acupuncture have become accepted by the medical profession , the day might come when , to treat your flu , your doctor prescribes a piece of topaz instead of tablets . |
| 22 | I learnt how to make fish , and fruit , and a piece of meat out of wood and coloured paper . |
| 23 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 24 | Cranston took the greasy piece of parchment out of his wallet and handed it over . |
| 25 | I made her some coffee and she sat and watched while Doone picked a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and handed it to Sam . |
| 26 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 27 | On the plane , which had armrests a foot wide , made in a plastic that looked like jellied gold lamé , he pretended suddenly to have remembered something and drew a rumpled piece of paper out of his wallet . |
| 28 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 29 | He stood up and went over to an escritoire and took a piece of paper out of a drawer . |
| 30 | He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and declaimed : |