Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was was there any sort of attempt to er acquisition of expensive equipment now , was there any attempt made to gain the er the knowledge of the workforce on what would be suitable machinery to buy ? |
| 2 | Elicitation procedures which measure a child 's comprehension of spoken language generally only require a relatively simple response . |
| 3 | And Garvey mimed , with uncanny accuracy , how Colley the Mason had pushed the squire 's purse of white velvet down inside his own shirt , under his armpit . |
| 4 | Blackberry 's flood of apparent nonsense only seemed to draw tighter the mesh of danger and bewilderment . |
| 5 | The lion 's share of outside business today springs from an application development operation , which started off developing administrative and manufacturing software for the plant , but now sells some of the results through the IBM France catalogue . |
| 6 | Lemert 's concept of secondary deviance perhaps represented the most thorough resurrection of the criminological concern with the criminal justice system . |
| 7 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |
| 8 | After 1789 politicians were the main architects of French nationalism , but in Russia at the start of NEP Marxist internationalism and Trotsky 's theory of permanent revolution still imbued most leading Bolsheviks , with the significant exception of Stalin , whose treatment of Georgia in 1922 was to shock Lenin . |
| 9 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 10 | But so do many private individuals , and we do not believe that a citizen 's sphere of personal freedom necessarily shrinks as his power and influence grow . |
| 11 | A half-crown 's worth of soy sauce also tends — unless you are keen on Chinese cooking -to remain an old faithful among the stores ; and although nothing can quite compare with fresh tarragon , it is perfectly possible to use the excellent Chiltern Herb Farm dried version . |
| 12 | We shall argue that , in the case of causal connectives , most comprehension experiments have assessed children 's understanding of temporal order rather than causal direction . |
| 13 | On the other hand , polls measuring public approval/ disapproval of Carter 's handling of foreign policy generally were highly unfavourable . |
| 14 | New Zealand 's lack of indigenous oil together with heavy transportation fuel requirements meant an oil import bill of some NZ$1.3 billion in 1983 . |
| 15 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 16 | which can yield 2 tonnes/hectare year of dry wood even on unfertilised , very dry soil , was considered to be crucial for upgrading the environment as a whole . |