Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , in Kentish Town , a particularly salubrious part of London where my office is based , we have a monthly burglary . |
| 2 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 3 | The guy whose visor reads ‘ Ground Round ’ after a low-rent steak house in upstate New York , that part of America where he was born and raised and still hangs his hat ? |
| 4 | er but erm that kind of thing where you can sort of scale the responses in some way or say how many times a week or say how many times in the last year or how many times since Christmas or something erm fine yeah you can do , you can do stats on that , you can hopefully find P less than point O five etcetera etcetera between the different groups |
| 5 | Because I I do know of of various different groups who are working in this field as volunteers , there 's no money behind them there , and I mean i i it should be a priority , it should be given that kind of priority where |
| 6 | A few weeks later they were taken away from Pushkin , away from St Petersburg and the European side of Russia where they had many supporters . |
| 7 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |
| 8 | It 's part of an ingoing programme of meetings where there 's consultation between employee representatives and employer representatives . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Very different kind of humour where no , I , I , unfortunately I agree with you . |
| 11 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 12 | The dowry system has sometimes been considered as an effect of the sexual division of labour where , although women do some of the heaviest work ( servicing labour and producing it ) , these roles are considered less important than those of men . |
| 13 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 14 | If a landowner suddenly challenged your right to continue canoeing on a favourite stretch of water how would you prove that you had a right to do so ? |
| 15 | First , the distinction may be irrelevant in a high proportion of situations where an adjective is used , since either interpretation will give the same practical result . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the autonomous region assumed some degree of credibility when , on Oct. 12 , Aquino granted limited executive powers to the Candao government . |
| 17 | The system could not function properly without the presence of a file server on the network and the fact that Talbot were given the go ahead to use the AppleShare software gives some degree of indication how seriously the project was being taken . |
| 18 | If we ask in this type of case why businesses expanded , there may sometimes by no systematic explanation to be given . |
| 19 | I often have this type of fantasy when very tired , and that certainly I was . |
| 20 | But even had they sought to do otherwise , they felt obliged to fill the ‘ blind-alley ’ vacancies if only because employers would always manage to find workers for this type of employment however much the exchanges tried to frustrate them . |
| 21 | When Connery was playing the ultimate English officer , James Bond ( an old boy of Fettes where Connery once delivered the milk ) , he could sound raw . |
| 22 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 23 | His funeral was held at Our Lady and St Josephs at his wife Kerry 's request because the parish priest , Father Peter Burke , was a friend of the couple , who met on a trip to the French shrine of Lourdes where they were helping the sick . |
| 24 | I 'll push you into some sort of position where I can overtake and then tow you to a garage . ’ |
| 25 | Yet his horizons were quickly widened to include the nearby town of Dorchester where he attended day school , and where at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a local architect , despite his academic interests . |
| 26 | A very pleasant day trip can be spent journeying through the pretty Suffolk villages of Little Cavendish and Long Melford , and the medieval town of Lavenham where a delicious meal is to be had at the Swan . |
| 27 | Ankles suffer a high rate of injury wherever poor mats are used . |
| 28 | You know perhaps in another area of Nottingham where they all tend to go now . |
| 29 | So , that 's er , really a very different pattern of infections where the virulence factors are not clearly identified . |
| 30 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |