Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | DNA is not a double helix , merely a lot of atoms the centres of which lie on imagined helices . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | They are , in fact , just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in . |
| 7 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 9 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just the sort of thing the Old Man would pick on . |
| 14 | ‘ That note 's just the sort of thing the little sod would do . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Just the sort of thing the Richardsons would do . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |
| 19 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 20 | And is not the Church of England the best of all Christian churches ? |
| 21 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 22 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |
| 23 | Though scarcely a couple of years the lieutenant 's senior , he somehow felt much older . |
| 24 | Not a bit of wonder the country 's in the state that it 's in . ’ |
| 25 | The list was continuous , and so it was not a matter of waiting.until the end before repeating the numbers from memory . |
| 26 | The Kings always specialised in bacon and cheese ‘ not a lot of varieties the way you have now , but what we had was good , the best ’ . |
| 27 | For some , perhaps still the majority of contractors the agency deducts tax at source and pays Class I ( dependent employee 's ) social security contributions . |
| 28 | David St John Thomas , celebrant of the English country station , has summed up eloquently the multiplicity of functions the country station performed : |
| 29 | Arsenal take on Manchester United this afternoon , and Graham outlined yesterday the kind of pressure the game 's top bosses face . |
| 30 | Finally , there is always the prospect of cross-examining the plaintiff . |