Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [det] of the " in BNC.

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1 Is n't it awful , ’ said Breeze , ‘ that so many of the nice things that happen to one person have a sort of reflex action on another ?
2 That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it .
3 Given that so much of the occupationalist initiative in education and outside ( YTS , etc. ) is aimed at the lower academic ability bands , it is useful to emphasize certain points :
4 Given that so much of the enthusiasm for ‘ law and order ’ in Britain has been marshalled by the Conservative Party during the late 1970s , a simple impression of how different things were ( or were not ) twenty years ago can be gleaned from the business of Conservative Party conferences in the two periods .
5 Yes , and I suspect that it has been an almost unique experience in that so much of the cost has been provided by other Governments .
6 A shame , then , that so few of the Discovery 's customers are likely ever to make use of these abilities .
7 While men and women contribute to both these spheres , the former is primarily men 's domain and the latter primarily that of the women .
8 Both books imply what childhood should be like by being very straightforward about the present reality for all too many of the world 's children .
9 It is becoming clear now , from such studies as those of Nanno Marinatos ( 1984 ) at Akrotiri on Thera and of Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) at Knossos , that even some of the apparently purely decorative schemes on Minoan walls are actually religious in intention .
10 It was widely thought , for instance , that too much of the team 's money was going to the Fittipaldi family and too little into the preparation of the car .
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