Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation is to rush out to lose one 's aloneness in all sorts of activities and perhaps a wild search for replacement company . |
| 2 | Also , step back from engagement , never forward ; an exciting bout generates a great deal of noise and sometimes the opponent does n't hear the referee 's call to stop the bout . |
| 3 | We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections . |
| 4 | Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts . |
| 5 | In ‘ craft ’ retailing , the store manager and staff can consult central databases of information and back the ‘ hunches ’ which come from face to face contact with customers rather than from postcodes and product flow analysis . |
| 6 | One last consideration — many couples have experienced total loss of desire and even a repugnance towards sex with no apparent reason . |
| 7 | Perhaps the general absence of corals from near large river mouths is partly the result of sediment and partly the result of low salinities . |
| 8 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 9 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 10 | This is because in Canada the view that rape is less a crime of sex and more a crime of violence has been pursued with particular fervour . |
| 11 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |
| 12 | In front , southwards and seawards , there was a stretch of gravel and then the ground fell away abruptly down to the sea . |
| 13 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 14 | Upon consideration of the hypothesis that bile constituents and their intracolonic degradation products influence colon carcinogenesis , it has been proposed that subjects with a metabolic predisposition towards lowered serum cholesterol may also have an increased secretion of bile and hence an increased risk of developing colorectal carcinoma . |
| 15 | The factory itself was formed by Bill Freeman in 1967 , a former employee of Stoddard and now the Contract Director of Stoddard Mercia Contract . |
| 16 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 17 | This is a personal perspective which is a considered opinion drawn from eighteen months of researches and over a hundred interviews , and built upon my own experiences over twenty years of what constitutes good science . |
| 18 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 19 | Assaults on policemen , Chinese and defenceless women , window-smashing , gang fights , breaking up holiday resorts , and gobbing on the steps of churches and also the worshippers assembled there , were among their least terrible adventures . |
| 20 | To me , northwest Africa is part of Europe and either the division is farther south or , if they must be sailing on different plates , then those plates were very close together long before the Alpine convulsions . |
| 21 | Everyone looks reasonably well-off in Campinas — this is the richest part of Brazil and wherever the poverty is , it does n't seem to be here . |
| 22 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 23 | Iehmarc may have been Echmarcach Ragnallson , later king of Dublin ( see below ) , but who possibly in 1031 controlled part of Galloway and maybe the Isle of Man . |
| 24 | which not only ignored but almost denied the existence of women and therefore the importance of love and sex between men and women in human life . |
| 25 | Speyside , Orkney , North Yorkshire and Derbyshire all had more than half proposing a change of enterprise and yet the climate , soil type or terrain severely restricted the choice . |
| 26 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 27 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 28 | They tested a set of assumptions about the attitudes of investors and hence the impact of the P/E ratio . |
| 29 | Michael Lee checked the address on the scrap of paper and then the name plate pinned high to the wall of the tenement . |
| 30 | Auditions are a painful necessity of life and not a fair judgement on your career but you have to go through them . |