Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas .
2 In any event , come again , we always have a great deal of variety here at the theatre and if you are a speedy worker , you should do very well . ’
3 Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life .
4 There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus .
5 The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process .
6 The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself .
7 For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation .
8 Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there .
9 Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ .
10 Such a configuration would tend to make a plate slide under the force of gravity downwards from a mid-oceanic ridge towards a subduction zone ( Fig. 2.17(E) ) .
11 The approach was reactive and piecemeal , with little appreciation of traffic now as a system or of the relationships between land use and traffic generation .
12 She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward .
13 One day their terms of reference will be agreed and there 'll be no mention of happiness anywhere in the document .
14 The raids were followed by a military action on the ground , and neutral Cambodia was drawn into the conflict , with appalling loss of life there over the next few years .
15 The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with .
16 1.56 If it is a fatal accident case , full details of the dependants and the loss of dependency up to the date of the application must be included .
17 Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner .
18 Perhaps non-clinical legionellosis follows exposure to small numbers of bacteria alone , the clinical form occurring as a result of exposure either to a large dose of bacteria or to legionellae packaged in amoebae .
19 Hering realized that disease was the result of imbalance somewhere in the body and that if a true cure was to be effected , the imbalance had to be corrected .
20 Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary .
21 Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven .
22 Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello .
23 The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation .
24 Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science .
25 At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies .
26 Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers .
27 As they rode cautiously along , Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees .
28 One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time .
29 We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day .
30 Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon .
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