Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparing these different measures is an advanced case of adding apples to oranges to cows — which makes the table on page 105 a highly misleading and dangerous animal . |
| 2 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 3 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 4 | Most leading merchant banks have established their own property investment departments and have been at the forefront of developing innovative methods of financing projects through equity and long-term debt . |
| 5 | All technical aspects of producing plays in these arena are considered : sound , lighting , seating systems , sight lines and acoustics . |
| 6 | Some of the local hard cases delight in the sadistic pleasure of ousting strangers by continually watering the stones , Relief waits outside , but it is a masochistic type of relief — icy-fresh river water that is cold beyond belief . |
| 7 | In recent years however , scientists have taken a greater interest in the exciting possibilities of observing animals in their natural surroundings . |
| 8 | Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province , democracy was n't mentioned . |
| 9 | The souvenirs on sale , though , were of intriguing awfulness ; my favourite was a plastic female head enclosing a dried and shrivelled bouquet — a dead-metaphor version of the French custom of naming women after flowers , perhaps . |
| 10 | However , when children 's fares are below the full adult fare this can cause difficulties for operators ( Dobbs 1979 ) , and the economic and social costs of getting children from more remote rural settlements to school remains an outstanding problem in many localities . |
| 11 | Others include the cathartic process of making amends to the people you have hurt through your addiction . |
| 12 | The actual spread size , e.g. ¼ or 2½ per cent , is taken as a reliable indicator of lending conditions in the loan market . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , these are not a practical or acceptable means of collecting debts in most industries . |
| 14 | Credit cards are now being regarded as a more acceptable method of settling accounts as the credit card companies guarantee settlement of the bill up to the credit limit of their clients ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | The survival of poll books for the reigns of William and Anne has made the analysis of electoral behaviour an attractive method of testing the political attitudes of those below the level of the elite , since a careful tabulation of voting behaviour seems to offer the possibility of a fairly scientific means of assessing swings in public opinion across the nation as a whole . |
| 16 | All are concerned with practical issues such as the accessibility of the union to those who are coming into the profession and the need to find sensible ways of selecting actors for parts . |
| 17 | There are right and wrong ways of handling microphones for speech recording . |
| 18 | While Knowles is concerned mainly with accurate description , it is clear from Romaine 's ( 1978a ) account of the variable ( r ) in the language of Edinburgh schoolchildren that she shares Labov 's general theoretical objectives of elucidating processes of linguistic change ( cf. 6.1 ) . |
| 19 | With hindsight , I question some of my early motives and certainly now see different ways of exploring choices with students . |
| 20 | For the news programmes , this means finding a thousand and one different ways of making bricks without straw . |
| 21 | This is because they have not yet learned the new rules and are still trying old techniques of gaining reactions from their parents . |
| 22 | It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures . |
| 23 | British Gas water heating may not sound as romantic as the sea but it remains one of the quickest , most controllable ways of providing oceans of hot water . |
| 24 | Mrs Alexander Hehmeyer from Chicago , who is President of Sadler 's Wells Association Inc ( USA ) , which was founded in 1980 to raise funds to support the work of Sadler 's Wells , and to develop cultural exchanges of performing companies between the US and Sadler 's Wells , very kindly invited me to go with her and her husband , to a Royal Gala performance at Sadler 's Wells . |
| 25 | Certainly the early printers saw the commercial viability of producing texts for this market although the writings of the English mystics were not well represented . |
| 26 | His leadership has been criticized in a number of particulars : the timing of the movement 's creation ( too early or too late ) ; the adoption of anti-communism , which had short-term benefits but turned Gaullism into a right-wing preserve ; the systematic hostility to parliament and refusal to negotiate with the parties ; the tactical mistake of refusing apparentements in June 1951 . |
| 27 | These general conclusions have been further qualified by Blacksell and Gilg 's ( 1981 ) detailed analysis of planning applications in parts of Devon , where there were large numbers of applications and approvals for residential developments outside the selected settlements . |
| 28 | The Liberal government could , of course , have developed its social security measures as direct measures of redistributing incomes without either means tests or contributions . |
| 29 | The footnotes run to one-fifth of the main text , and can be read on their own , Byzantine , merit for insight into ‘ The decreasing number of standing columns at Persepolis ’ or ‘ disapproval of the assessment of earthquake intensities from a helicopter ’ . |
| 30 | Firstly , I believe , it offers us an interesting way of interpreting images of seclusion and withdrawal . |