Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times . |
| 3 | Be sure to scatter this kind of food thinly in the places where these species normally forage — a heap of cheese in the middle of the lawn will just attract the attentions of your local starlings . |
| 4 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 5 | for people who are caring for their , their family we 've , we 've also said , that employers should recognise that people should be able to get , erm some kind of leave occasionally from their work er , perhaps ten days a year when they find the person they 're looking after is is sick . |
| 6 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 7 | I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again . |
| 8 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 9 | Promoter Barry Hearn told me : ‘ He must have created some kind of record already with this his ninth world title fight in under two years . |
| 10 | Could I just conclude Moderator by saying that those who are engaged in ACTS the churches which are participating members of this action of churches together in Scotland are engaged in a journey together . |
| 11 | Right , it 's not too late to start to again , I , I 'll chuck this piece of paper away for you . |
| 12 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 13 | Broadly speaking , there is dependence in the early stages of the lifespan ; independence during adulthood ; and the likelihood of at least some degree of dependence again in old age . |
| 14 | In Leeds , the LEA 's current framework ( Leeds City Council 1991b ) might usefully be monitored and modified where appropriate — with this issue of balance firmly in mind . |
| 15 | The mumming play , of which the pace-egg play is an Easter version , was performed originally at Christmas and I will be discussing survivals of this type of play later in the book . |
| 16 | There seems to be no example yet available of this type of development anywhere in the world . |
| 17 | The formulation and implementation of a national energy policy was the first priority of the new president in domestic politics , and , as he saw it , some sort of test both of the governability of the United States and of his exercise of leadership , ‘ Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation . ’ |
| 18 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 19 | There is some sort of lesson there for the autograph collector , who need not despair if the great names are beyond his aspirations and his purse . |
| 20 | Politicians get away with this sort of behaviour only in totalitarian states . |
| 21 | Later still he said : ‘ Honestly , Jannie , nobody watches this sort of programme apart from the relatives of the performers . ’ |
| 22 | It is possible to do this sort of analysis only within the arthropod phylum , because only that has enough species , with enough measurable features . |
| 23 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 24 | Only after causatives have been studied from this point of view both in English and in other languages will we be in a position to attempt valid generalizations across languages . |
| 25 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 26 | A FORKLIFT truck driver vowed never to touch another drop of alcohol yesterday after being caught drink driving . |
| 27 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 28 | For years companies who have fleets of cars have used this method of payment instead of buying outright . |
| 29 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 30 | Yet he would hold that there could not be another state of mind just like it , without this being bad in just the same way and degree . |