Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 2 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 3 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 4 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 5 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 6 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 7 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 8 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 9 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 10 | Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered . |
| 11 | Crosby has already decided that Irishman Brian Mooney will play on the right side of midfield tonight a vote of confidence after the midfielder 's mistake which provided Charlton with their winning goal on Saturday . |
| 12 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 13 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 14 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 15 | In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | That 's Andrea Chezeris , your other driver of course not a household name |
| 17 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 18 | If you 're interested in either the design or purchase of jewellery then a unique opportunity has come to Glasgow this week . |
| 19 | At a higher level of intensity again the treaty may amount to the attempted bestowal of a right or the imposition of an obligation upon a third party . |
| 20 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 21 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 22 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |
| 23 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 24 | It could be argued that home-school links is precisely the kind of issue where a generalized LEA policy is least appropriate , since the chemistry of relationships between each school 's staff and its parents is a unique and subtle matter , hardly conducive to centrally determined procedures . |
| 25 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 26 | The following two case studies show the kind of situation where a family meeting is a helpful part of the social work plan . |
| 27 | It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing . |
| 28 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 29 | Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label . |
| 30 | This village , situated 700m above sea-level , seems to have some kind of festival almost every weekend . |