Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alleged vision had spoiled the banquet , depressed the King for weeks afterwards , before his natural good humour and boisterous spirits dismissed it as a phantasm of too much drink . |
| 2 | ‘ A first episode of bleeding several weeks ago led to a thyroid function test , and we found that to be a little low , so that 's now being treated medicinally . |
| 3 | April Fool 's Day marked the entry into force of yet another food labelling law , the nutritional value directive . |
| 4 | But there was an introversion to that which meant that too few readers of too many newspapers knew what it was there for . |
| 5 | But there was an introversion to that which meant that too few readers of too many newspapers knew what it was there for . |
| 6 | I often think of you , for example as at a recent and deeply moving funeral for a long-standing friend who had died of AIDS , when I sat inside the church literally underneath/beside your sculpture , but I am an increasingly bad correspondent , possibly as a result of so many letters re jobs ! |
| 7 | Avoid Tuesdays when many coaches arrive as a result of so many museums being closed in Paris . |
| 8 | Their doubt is a result of too little involvement in the world rather than too much . |
| 9 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 10 | The physical symptoms occur as a result of too much oxygen and too little carbon dioxide . |
| 11 | You may not know this — I 've studied sleeping , around the corner at the local college — grinding 's the result of too much stress . |
| 12 | I 'm never sure whether their vile manners are the result of too much breeding or too little . ’ |
| 13 | Low productivity ( often the result of too much labour through overmanning ) has led to poor competitiveness , market failure and the inevitable contraction of industry . |
| 14 | The eyes of almost all sharks and rays lack cone cells , so they can not perceive colour . |
| 15 | This failure underlines the opposition of both some member states and employers to the development of a Community role in industrial relations , and represents the extension to the Community level of the national conflicts between trade unions and employers on many issues . |
| 16 | While the stock of yet another carrier soared on buyout speculation , a fatal crash at New York 's La Guardia Airport , again brought lax airline safety to public attention . |
| 17 | Your memory is a confusion of too many faces and places encountered too rapidly . |
| 18 | Consumers faced shortages of virtually all commodities including petrol , drinking water , food and even sugar . |
| 19 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 20 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 21 | By half-term many teachers feel exhausted , and the last thing they feel able to do in their ‘ free time ’ is to undertake anything that smacks of yet more effort , uncertainty or challenge . |
| 22 | The fear of precisely such pressure had played a part in persuading the Government not to push ahead too fast with the construction of a war economy . |
| 23 | However , the vexed CFTC issue is resolved — and the AFBD last week was the lucky recipient of yet another draft solution from the commission — the traumas of the past six months have posed again the question of the association 's independence . |
| 24 | And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to be the ambition of so many women who come into the bush . |
| 26 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 27 | Literariness is a product of the deformation of the canonized or automatized elements , in other words of precisely those factors which constitute a tradition . |
| 28 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 29 | Pierce one large hole in the bottom of one pot , several small holes in another , and try making three holes — one above the other — in the side of yet another pot . |
| 30 | Even then it is best to err on the side of too much reinforcement rather than too much punishment . |