Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 2 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
| 3 | The food , and the mud on our wellingtons , and sometimes the faint tang of cordite coming up from the cellar all give me a good , tight , thrilling feel when I think about them . |
| 4 | A good deal of responsibility rests therefore on the local authority and the councillors to deal properly and fairly with any complaint , or finding by the commissioner . |
| 5 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 6 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 7 | But Mr Mutton found support from David Godwin of Cape , who argued that ‘ a bookshop is not a stage for publishers to display their wares in ’ , and considered that a good deal of p.o.s. came across as ‘ a ghastly , ill designed mess ’ . |
| 8 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 9 | Not all spreadsheets have a great deal of calculation built in to them . |
| 10 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 11 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 12 | A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands . |
| 13 | There was a fair deal of Oxbridge waffle around about history being ‘ a training of the mind ’ , a means of understanding the other chap 's point of view . |
| 14 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 15 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 16 | She is forced to go faster than she would choose by the intimidating bulk of lorries nudging up behind her , their radiator grilles looming like cliffs in her rear-view mirror , the drivers high above , out of sight . |
| 17 | In spring , the Head is used by migrants , the bulk of birds passing through in April and May . |
| 18 | The force of SSAPs resided primarily in the fact that under the ICAEW 's auditing standards , a true and fair view was generally defined as one which did not contravene extant SSAPs ; and that any noncompliance had to be stated and its effect quantified . |
| 19 | When they speak , I feel the force of history bearing down on me . |
| 20 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 21 | The military defeat of Taylor appeared increasingly to be the only option for an end to the conflict . |
| 22 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 23 | For , as the speed of light rushed down upon her , she heard , in the untimeable pause between the upbeat of Fenna 's wings and their down swoop , she heard the singing of the spheres , the harmony of the universe which turns , turns , turns in the atom and in the infinite and is unmoved in its own movement and is all one single force . |
| 24 | Between 14 April 1931 and September 1933 , Spain was governed by a succession of governments made up of Republicans and Socialists . |
| 25 | YO-YO would be a more accurate way to describe the succession of U-turns made recently by John Major and his Ministers . |
| 26 | Literature is introduced as follows : " Real knowledge and appreciation of Literature come only from first-hand study of the works of great writers . |
| 27 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 28 | In Prokop v DHSS and Another [ 1985 ] CLY 1037 , May LJ stated the relevant principle clearly in the following passage : On the facts in Jefford v Gee the relevant loss of earnings continued throughout from accident to trial , and indeed went on thereafter … it is , I think , quite clear from the judgment , and indeed from the application of arithmetical commonsense , that the half-rate approach there referred to is only applicable to cases where the special damages comprise more or less regular periodical losses which are continuous from the date of the accident to the date of the trial ; these are more often than not lost earnings . |
| 29 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 30 | Loss of control taking off on a windy day |