Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] in the " in BNC.

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1 The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century .
2 Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population .
3 The only sure method of reducing the risks of AIDS in the users of intravenous drugs and hence in others is to get the sufferers from addictive disease into continuing recovery through the Anonymous Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous so that they have progressively less craving to use addictive drugs .
4 For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles .
5 If , as is very likely , experiments finally prove the ‘ scientific ’ feasibility of fusion in the next few years , there will be plenty of interest in the topic .
6 Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence .
7 ‘ Besides , I saw eggs and cheese and all sorts of stuff in the cupboard when I spent the night there .
8 And erm although there 's been sort of all sorts of stuff in the press , have you seen all this stuff in the press about endowments ?
9 You 've got all sorts of detail in the books , little historical facts and things
10 The correct placement of the intracerebroventricular injection was confirmed by injection of dye at the same coordinates after completion of study and subsequent localisation of dye in the ventricle on brain sectioning .
11 Despite considerable individual differences in the localisation of language in the brain ( Brown , 1979 ; Ojemann , 1979 ; Gur and Reivich , 1980 ) the preeminent role of the left hemisphere in the majority of adults is not in doubt .
12 I believe it 's a special Songs of Praise in the summer to do with pilgrimages .
13 And that was exactly my remedy for him earlier this year when , face down on a bench in Augusta 's locker-room , Olazabal shielded the grief of failure in the US Masters .
14 Hari took a deep breath and tasted the tang of salt in the air , soon it would be summer but she would be facing it alone .
15 The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light .
16 ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light .
17 The Bull Ring Archive was founded in 1989 to complete a unique and compelling chronology of life in The Bull Ring .
18 A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother .
19 Clearly , the hearer is left with a great deal of responsibility in the interpretation process .
20 I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village .
21 You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you .
22 This relationship entails that speakers can exercise a great deal of choice in the way they encode their meanings ; for example , even if questions ( i.e. requests for information or for action ) occur in a text , there is no guarantee that they will be realized syntactically as interrogatives ; there is no simple isomorphic relationship between function and form .
23 Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue .
24 This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run .
25 ‘ Other cities ’ experience show conferences are an excellent way of bringing in visitors who will spend a great deal of money in the city .
26 Midianite : the inter-change of terms sound confused , but from late patriarchal times on , there was in fact a good deal of overlap in the use of the terms " Midianite " , " Ishmaelite " , " Medanite " , " Moabite " .
27 There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops .
28 She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror .
29 We shall be doing a great deal of work in the coming months to discourage the government from taking a decision which would send book prices soaring and seriously damage the health of the trade . ’
30 There was usually a good deal of flexibility in the organisation of these political departments : their number and scope altered easily and often to meet changing demands .
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