Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues ? |
| 2 | He was lying prone , his eyes shut , clad in that pair of briefs that made her eyes linger far too long on his bronzed legs and flat chest . |
| 3 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 4 | The project will examine how well people can use their judgement to forecast the future behaviour of a system ( eg. a business , economy or traffic system ) on the basis of a series of observations that characterize its past behaviour . |
| 5 | A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve . |
| 6 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 7 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |
| 8 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |