Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 32 | ‘ You would be playing rugby with people who are supportive of change and who are non-racial . |
| 33 | In the past , both traditional and modern linguists have treated the relations of adjectives and their nouns or noun phrases as essentially formal matters , related to syntactic grouping or even to simple relative order of word classes . |
| 34 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 35 | This is usually tucked away under a fold of skin but it can be quickly erected and used as a weapon . |
| 36 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
| 37 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 38 | After all , unless they are careful , they will gain no experience of these new kinds of products and their markets . |
| 39 | What top management needs in order to move towards this plan is an analysis of its present and potential future situation in terms of products and their associated markets . |
| 40 | Supposing you run out of hotplates and there 's no space to heat up the gravy , or will the sprouts get cold while you 're waiting for the potatoes to cook ? |
| 41 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 42 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 43 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 44 | Last season he was getting loads of stick and his contract came up for renewal — when we were in a potential relegation situation . |
| 45 | The emergence of Champagne and its early wines |
| 46 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 47 | Screen-writer , you see , demands of studio , absolute solitude essential , come and go as I please , often not there , vagaries of genius and its errant locomotion , several forged references available from heads of Oxbridge colleges , principals of Shakespeare Schools , even one on House of Commons paper . |
| 48 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 49 | ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’ |
| 50 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 51 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 52 | Not that I 'm any sort of expert but I had misspent much of a happy youth in the ‘ feeling lucky , punk ? ’ school of cinema and I could tell Clint Eastwood 's Magnum from , say , The Magnificent Seven's Colt .45s , blindfolded . |
| 53 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 54 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 55 | Before I go into the details of the report 's findings and the accompanying and interesting , if depressing , press statement by the Minister on 9 September , I should say that there is not only increasing public awareness of the problems of smoking and its long-term consequences to the health of smokers , but an increasing awareness of the dangers of passive smoking , particularly to children . |
| 56 | It was as if I needed proof that your first letter was not some kind of trick and you were dead after all . |
| 57 | These examples will not immediately take you to being chairperson of ICI but they will give you personally , as well as potential employers , a more positive image of you as a candidate in an interview . |
| 58 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 59 | Title documents are documents of title and certificates evidencing title to the following types of investments and which are in the possession or control of the firm in connection with or for the purposes of its investment business : |
| 60 | Since the structure of molecules and their reactions with each other underlie all of chemistry and biology , quantum mechanics allows us in principle to predict nearly everything we see around us , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle . |