Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we in the church may not yet be an army ‘ mighty and terrible with banners ’ , but we can muster resistance by coming together in little bands of hope ready to strike in deep raids behind enemy lines . |
| 2 | These are of course easy to distinguish from idioms ; nonetheless , they do have a kind of semantic cohesion — the constituent elements are , to varying degrees , mutually selective . |
| 3 | ‘ Nouveau riche is more interesting to look at , but of course boring to talk to . ’ |
| 4 | But it has happened and where the park committee wishes to press its objection , the Secretary of State for Agriculture ( or Wales ) must then decide whether a grant is to be paid ( the farmer is of course free to proceed without any grant aid if he wishes ) . |
| 5 | It is not anyone 's wish to reduce the overall level of money available to provide for the needs of people with dementia . |
| 6 | The value of several banks fell by more than 10 per cent yesterday , and this will reduce the amount of money available to lend to British companies . |
| 7 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 8 | From this you can identify the trends and thus assign probabilities to the various types of question likely to appear on the next occasion . |
| 9 | Unemployment benefit , already the lowest in Europe , is to be cut , and the period of work necessary to qualify for it is to be lengthened . |
| 10 | British ( and French ) diplomacy encouraged those in Washington who favoured a binding version of article 5 to persevere against their domestic critics . |
| 11 | The amount of rainwater ( also known as surface water ) with which the gutters have to cope depends on the area of the roof from which the water is collected and , of course , on the amount of rain likely to fall on it . |
| 12 | When a waterfall is envisaged , a length of tube sufficient to reach from the outflow to the head of the cascade is attached . |
| 13 | The association was founded in 1965 ( on 21 June , from which it takes its name ) , when some 80% of all school teachers staged a demonstration to protest against a new " Law of Retirements " , which increased by one third the period of service necessary to qualify for a pension . |
| 14 | ( 1988 ) assess the patterns of uplift likely to result from different models of passive rifting . |
| 15 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 16 | SIR — Surely it is not now the turn of Radio 3 to fall into the hands of crazed ‘ controllers ’ ( letter , April 3 ) ? |
| 17 | The kitschy Sixties strip routines are , er , amusing — but was n't this kind of thing supposed to belong in Fenn 's pre-Lynch past ? |
| 18 | On Friday Peskin , before jetting off to Florida 's Disney World , successfuly completed the rescheduling of £80 million of debt due to expire over the next six months . |
| 19 | The cross-hatched areas give the range of speed for each angle of slope likely to result from variation in snow conditions , wax and weather . |
| 20 | Ever since she gave up full-time employment where everyone touched their cap to her , she 's found the loss of identity difficult to cope with . |