Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 2 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 3 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 4 | Sunlight probed reticently through the thick green canopy , dappling random clumps of fern underfoot . |
| 5 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 6 | The hills have clumps of rocks precariously balanced on them . |
| 7 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 8 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 9 | Elizabeth has worked for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities and between 1980 and 1983 for the London Borough of Haringey where she was responsible for the special education service and secondary school amalgamations . |
| 10 | Early this century jute sacks became widely used for home distribution although the export of cement still continued in battels and later in steel drums . |
| 11 | Bishop John Fordham in 1384 appointed Lewyn a commissioner of array for the city of Durham , and with several partners he was granted the borough of Durham to farm , and he was also engaged in the export of wool overseas . |
| 12 | Hypnagogic experiences may also reflect after-images of activities protractedly engaged in during the preceding day . |
| 13 | But even the safest-seeming science is going to be obsolete sooner or later ; obsolete taxonomy , like that of Swainson or Agassiz , is as dead as the dodo , and those who took the risks of Darwinism usually found it interesting and fruitful . |
| 14 | Many practitioners come to use LM potencies when treating cases which need more care because of risks of aggravation e.g. patients who are very sensitive to remedies , those with very low vitality , cases with severe pathology , history of suppressive treatments etc . |
| 15 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 16 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 17 | I think that he will learn the tactics of Opposition rapidly . |
| 18 | Eurosterling bonds were first issued in 1972 ; they have all the characteristics of eurobonds rather than those of domestic or bulldog bonds , and the main issuers have been UK building societies , seeking long-term funds to finance their home loans . |
| 19 | We shall look at the characteristics of bills more carefully in a moment . |
| 20 | In particular , more still needs to be known about the characteristics of patients most likely to benefit from treatment . |
| 21 | It overlooks the fact that people with impairments have different needs from people without impairments , and the uniformity it introduces means that the specific needs and characteristics of individuals often go unrecognised . |
| 22 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 23 | Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality . |
| 24 | We welcome all sorts of investors here on fair terms . |
| 25 | What 's the problem with this new switchboard , has it settled down now or we were getting all sorts of complaints initially |
| 26 | They seem to get up to all sorts of things nowadays . |
| 27 | However anyone is welcome to these meetings , we do discuss all sorts of things not just topics related to work . |
| 28 | We watch television and video 's , we go shopping , we do all sorts of things together , because we like each others company . |
| 29 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 30 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |