Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.

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1 It 's very unlikely we 'll be making much in those sorts of developments much of those sorts of developments this year with our current budget .
2 I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas .
3 There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese .
4 There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head .
5 There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree .
6 [ D. Woodward , The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642 , British Academy , Records of Social and Economic History , NS , vol. viii , 1984 . ]
7 In the same way that alternative therapies such as acupuncture have become accepted by the medical profession , the day might come when , to treat your flu , your doctor prescribes a piece of topaz instead of tablets .
8 EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer .
9 ALTERNATIVE medicine practitioners were accused by the Royal College of Physicians yesterday of making false and misleading claims for their treatments of allergies by unorthodox methods .
10 The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's .
11 Recognition of qualifications regardless of where they are acquired
12 Figure 3 a shows the fractional coverage of PSCs polewards of 25°N at 56mbar for current CO 2 with both the noninteractive ( run 1 ) and interactive ( run 2 ) ozone , and for the same simulations with doubled CO 2 ( runs 3 and 4 ) .
13 Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ?
14 In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers .
15 Right , so this is if we incorporate expectations in our model of supply response alright , so instead of saying that the the desired level of supply instead of saying that , we say it 's actually this right , if we actually incorporate expectations specifically alright , then we get a supply response model alright , like this and our hypothesis , y'know cos we do n't know how expectations are formed , right , economics ca n't tell us anything about how expectations are formed are they rational , are they naive , are they adaptive , who knows , nobody knows alright .
16 Oh , yes those horses come in horse boxes them days bit of luck instead of trains .
17 I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it .
18 The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs .
19 It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs .
20 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 .
21 The problem is as they know in their heart of hearts much of what they propose this year is not sustainable in future years .
22 Just as our Grand Master thinks about the manipulation of further , and suggests that skilled readers recognise the meanings of words ahead of fixation .
23 It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) .
24 Thus , the 700 base pairs of homology downstream of the PstI site ( 23 , 30 ) was sufficient for integration into an intact beta-tubulin gene to occur .
25 The two ideologies are by and large products of the revolution or in the case of liberalism perhaps of the of enlightened attitudes .
26 The five reportedly reached a " preliminary consensus " on a plan to involve the UN in the governing of Cambodia ahead of a general election .
27 At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them .
28 The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games .
29 Milan was always jealous of its measure of independence both of emperor and pope ; Milan and St Ambrose was the most active and powerful of all the traditions to rival Rome and St Peter .
30 What , more than anything else , distinguished towns of all sizes was a narrow £3 — £9 band which , with a relatively high proportion of assessments upwards of £10 , left something of a gap between , on the one hand , the upper tradesmen , and , on the other , artificers and labourers at 40s. or less ; the big £3 — £4 group at Bury suggests nonetheless either a strong contingent of master craftsmen or unusually well-to-do workmen .
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