Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the characteristics of pill users no longer observed were similar to never users no longer observed , so comparison between contraceptive groups also remains valid . |
| 2 | Characteristic symptoms of monopolization can be seen in the reorganization of music hall as early as the 1880s ; corporate ownership , national and regional syndicates and chains , and restrictive licensing policies combined to freeze out the small entrepreneur ( see Bailey 1986a , passim ) . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that a GIS approach has wide applicability in all sorts of location problems where the goal is to minimize ( rather than , as conventionally , maximize ) accessibility to a population . |
| 4 | A sharp knife : There are all sorts of d-i-y jobs where a sharp knife is invaluable — laying floorcoverings , cutting electric flex , trimming roller blind fabric and the like . |
| 5 | The Association of Tennis Professionals yesterday announced that its end-of-season doubles championship next year will take place at the Sanctuary Cove resort near Brisbane in Australia . |
| 6 | The Association of Art Historians really should take a stand and publish minimum fees for one-off lectures . ’ |
| 7 | Much has changed since 1989 when the first annual Art Show was organised to help members of the prestigious Art Dealers ' Association of America cash in on a booming art market . |
| 8 | THE Poultry Association of Northern Ireland only holds its conference every other year . |
| 9 | We could smell the salty tang of sea air less than a mile away , and we could hear the mewing of gulls . |
| 10 | POLICE hunting the killer of Rachel Nickell yesterday swooped on a flat above a funeral parlour . |
| 11 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 12 | Remarkably , more than a third ( 83m ) are University of Wales dissertations , three metres and a great deal of midnight oil more than in the previous year . |
| 13 | A great deal of bomb debris still remains to be cleared , but valiant efforts have been made to remove refuse . |
| 14 | Deeply though a great deal of crime fiction today is rooted in the blueprint detective story , there is now only a small public for such books in their pure form and , I think , there are not so many writers who want to produce them . |
| 15 | John Hickey , 42 , of Quarry Road , Silksworth , Sunderland , will appear before a special sitting of Sunderland magistrates today charged with the murder of his estranged wife . |
| 16 | The main bulk of dementia sufferers now and in the future are elderly women , many of them living alone . |
| 17 | The Ring of Scotland for his part undertook to pay the Ring of England £20,000 over three years in three instalments , a concession which Mortimer and Isabella must have been especially anxious to procure in view of their financial difficulties , and which Bruce hoped perhaps would sweeten the agreement for the English . |
| 18 | It was in part dissatisfaction with the methods of elite theories as well as with its conclusions that led to the development of pluralism in political science ; this we now go on to consider . |
| 19 | But what comes across from the letters is an overwhelming ignorance about female physiology and sexuality , the difficulty of gaining access to information , and a lack of privacy in their homes that would have rendered the use of female methods of birth control extremely difficult . |
| 20 | The aim of this chapter is merely to draw the attention of the reader to some of the main methods of odour abatement currently available , bearing in mind that successful abatement may require a combination of the methods described below . |
| 21 | What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use . |
| 22 | The surprise defeat of Puma Sunderland away to Top Spin Darlington meant that with two games in hand Ilkley need to win only one of their last two matches to be the North-East representatives in the area play-offs . |
| 23 | MORLEY STREET returned ‘ in smashing shape ’ following his impressive defeat of brother Granville Again in the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday . |
| 24 | 2 of the biggest manufacturers of video games both say they print advice on epilepsy with their games . |
| 25 | Can you recommend some manufacturers of baby carriers so that I can bring my son along too ? |
| 26 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 27 | Telephone based surveys are currently popular as a reasonable compromise , this increases the speed of data collection rather than the insight which is revealed by personal interviews . |
| 28 | A succession of opinion surveys strongly suggests that most people regard a family size of two children as ideal ; this preference seems to have grown stronger over the years ( Woolf 1971 , Woolf and Pegden 1976 , Dunnell 1979 , General Household Survey , Jowell et al . |
| 29 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 30 | He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester . |