Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big match is at Coundon Road , where Hereford , who took on the might of Bath a few seasons ago try to kill the giants of Coventry . |
| 2 | The Zombies take on the appearance of people the adventurers know ( and preferably care about or at least like ) and reach forward to them as if in greeting . |
| 3 | But as long the rent of £10,000 a year continues to be paid , council officers are n't bothered if Mrs Maxwell lives there or not . |
| 4 | This was not what English food exporters wanted but , as it kept down the cost of provisioning the sugar plantations , it was supported by the sugar industry in England . |
| 5 | 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed . |
| 6 | er Abraham Lincoln actually supported a constitutional amendment which would guarantee the right of people to own slaves so the idea of Lincoln the great emancipator and friend of black people , it needs to be corrected slightly . |
| 7 | DNA is not a double helix , merely a lot of atoms the centres of which lie on imagined helices . |
| 8 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 9 | it was only a couple of pound a yard . |
| 10 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 11 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 12 | In the Ladies , where they went to explore and while away the length of time a restaurant meal always took , Miranda began , ‘ Who 's that man then ? ’ |
| 13 | If the object reflecting the echoes were not a static tree but a moving insect , the Doppler consequences would be more complicated , but the bat could still calculate the velocity of relative motion between itself and its target , obviously just the kind of information a sophisticated guided missile like a hunting bat needs . |
| 14 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 15 | They are , in fact , just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in . |
| 16 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 18 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 19 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 20 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 21 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 22 | Just the sort of thing the Old Man would pick on . |
| 23 | ‘ That note 's just the sort of thing the little sod would do . ’ |
| 24 | It was just the sort of thing the boys liked , and when Hilary had fetched their suppers — a cold Scotch egg each — from the kitchen , they all sat watching it . |
| 25 | ‘ Just the sort of thing the Richardsons would do . ’ |
| 26 | I could use it , of course , and it has to be said that there are a lot of solos being played out there with exactly the kind of sounds the ME-10 produces . |
| 27 | It is exactly the kind of thing a truly determined and environmentally conscious government could get on with and do . |
| 28 | It was , she reflected , exactly the kind of place a high-flier like Luke would choose . |
| 29 | More , she was passionate and wilful , exactly the sort of creature a man badly damaged by life and love ought to avoid — only , he could not avoid her . |
| 30 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |