Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that you find this edition of Update both informative and helpful . |
| 2 | It held him in an interval of assessment more potent than the silence that accompanied it . |
| 3 | How can Morgenthau 's Realism explain the behaviour of states as different as the USA and Iran ? |
| 4 | Being the Bishop of an area which stretches from the North West to the Midlands , a I see a great variety of difficulties , yet I also see a wonderful breadth of support both spiritual and material . |
| 5 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 6 | In the prevailing exclusionist literature , which is controlled by the professionally intelligent , the attitude that what professionals define as ‘ intelligence ’ does not matter , and that their child 's humanity does , may be seen as a symptom of pathology as severe as ( and similar to ) a child 's intellectual disabilities . |
| 7 | Some reviews of aspects of urban intervention indicated that Urban Programme funding often proved crucial for the implementation of projects as diverse as business-development initiatives ( DoE , 1988b ) environmental improvements ( JURUE , 1986b ) and some employment-creation projects ( DoE , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Young children appear to acquire a " grammar " of story comparatively early and are able to deal with the sequencing with reasonable success — i.e. the initial events are sequenced initially in the text and so on . |
| 9 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 10 | The reek grew stronger of flesh and carbon and gunpowder and smoke , and the chaos of noise more ferocious as at last Dulé came up behind the gaggle of the English defenders . |
| 11 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 12 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 14 | However , lack of space will remain , but by keeping the models and micro-filmed plans and specifications , the ‘ soul ’ , if not the body , of objects as large as battleships can be saved . |
| 15 | Where there is a relatively small hole in the board , such as where a light fitting has been removed , you only need a small piece of plasterboard slightly larger than the hole . |
| 16 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 17 | Returning to architecture , he designed Cour , Argyllshire ( 1921–3 ) , a picturesque country house in local stone , and a series of houses either thatched and timbered or in neo-Georgian style , such as Cock Rock , Croyde , Devon ( 1926 ) and Woodhouse Copse , Holmbury St Mary , Surrey ( 1926 ) . |
| 18 | The French Senator-Minister for the High Police controlled a web of espionage as efficient as that of the Hapsburgs , and if anything even more ruthless . |
| 19 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 20 | The answer was that it would make the study of literature highly historical and linguistic . |
| 21 | Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express that he heard a voice call out , ‘ Rubbish ’ — to which he himself responded : ‘ Though I find this kind of boorishness both repulsive and depressing I am bound to state that the solitary heckler was probably articulating a mood felt by many . |
| 22 | Accuracy is of course particularly important when a builder is engaged in small works and uses the cost records to prepare the final account and sales invoice for the client . |
| 23 | In the sense of working together on common tasks partnership is a banal truism — of course both central and local government are involved in education , housing , transport , social services etc. but having said that there is little else one can say under the umbrella of partnership . |
| 24 | Kachins are of course well aware that there are other kinds of people who are not Jinghpaw in this sense , e.g. Burmese , Chinese , Indians , British anthropologists , and , in mythology , all these groups , including the Jinghpaw , are descended from a common original Adam and Eve . |
| 25 | It is of course also true that no individual 's disease is exactly like that of another . |
| 26 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 27 | It is of course quite plausible that the principle of monetary judgments applied in formulary procedure . |
| 28 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 29 | Pension funds ' trading in securities is of course much larger than these net figures suggest . |
| 30 | The rough general picture is of course very much that indicated in Figure I of Chapter 4 . |