Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 2 | In any event , come again , we always have a great deal of variety here at the theatre and if you are a speedy worker , you should do very well . ’ |
| 3 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 4 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 5 | The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process . |
| 6 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 7 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 8 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |
| 9 | Such a configuration would tend to make a plate slide under the force of gravity downwards from a mid-oceanic ridge towards a subduction zone ( Fig. 2.17(E) ) . |
| 10 | The approach was reactive and piecemeal , with little appreciation of traffic now as a system or of the relationships between land use and traffic generation . |
| 11 | One day their terms of reference will be agreed and there 'll be no mention of happiness anywhere in the document . |
| 12 | The raids were followed by a military action on the ground , and neutral Cambodia was drawn into the conflict , with appalling loss of life there over the next few years . |
| 13 | The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with . |
| 14 | 1.56 If it is a fatal accident case , full details of the dependants and the loss of dependency up to the date of the application must be included . |
| 15 | Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner . |
| 16 | Perhaps non-clinical legionellosis follows exposure to small numbers of bacteria alone , the clinical form occurring as a result of exposure either to a large dose of bacteria or to legionellae packaged in amoebae . |
| 17 | Hering realized that disease was the result of imbalance somewhere in the body and that if a true cure was to be effected , the imbalance had to be corrected . |
| 18 | Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven . |
| 19 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 20 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 21 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 22 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 23 | The Working Party 's stance stems from the fact that 70 per cent of the Board 's distributable income arises from Test match generated funds , and therefore the Board sees as its ‘ principal function and power the promotion , financing and betterment of cricket generally with an essential object being the achievement of the highest possible standards at international level ’ . |
| 24 | A second compulsory course ( taught by development studies specialists ) would be on the Principles and practice of development both at the macro level ( eg the place of the Third World countries in the world economy ) and the micro level ( eg community organisation ; role of church-related NGOs ) . |
| 25 | I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it . |
| 26 | He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others . |
| 27 | I put the piece of meat back into the mess tin . |
| 28 | Alice 's room was tiny , with a single bed , one other piece of furniture apart from the wall cupboard , a small chair , and a narrow window that would not open . |
| 29 | Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body . |
| 30 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |