Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked grotesque , a little ridiculous , with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching . |
| 2 | Several more clumps of earth rolled off graves . |
| 3 | The risks of peacemaking seemed too great . |
| 4 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 5 | The characteristics of hackers have now been described a number of times . |
| 6 | I mean the old boy network is pretty bad in this country , but er , it 's similar sorts of things go on in developing countries , and because there 's much less of an industrial sector there , the government sector itself , erm , plays a very important role in , in employment . |
| 7 | and erm we u had a boat on the Nile and the police came with us on camels and another barge with the servants and er so on the way er we made marmalade and all sorts of things to fill in time . |
| 8 | " I may have to go back to the bank for an hour or so — there 'll be all sorts of things piling up on my desk . |
| 9 | There would be all sorts of things rattling down on you — railings and chamber pots and lavatory pots . |
| 10 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 11 | But as time went on and techniques advanced , they found that peculiar sorts of molecules turned up , rather unusual ones , things that were n't expected — molecules that are very uncommon on the earth and in fact a number of molecules were discovered in interstellar space before they were discovered in the laboratory . |
| 12 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 13 | And there would be all sorts of hanky-panky going on … |
| 14 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 15 | Those sorts of accounts do n't carry much in the way of other books . ’ |
| 16 | You do n't want to run the risk of someone like that getting at you , so steer right away from any of the sorts of activities listed above . |
| 17 | All sorts of bits left over from Ladymont days . |
| 18 | the trends , compared to the previous study , in the rates of migration out of the Province of highly qualified students ; What sorts of students decide not to return to Northern Ireland , electing to take up employment elsewhere ? |
| 19 | ‘ Those sorts of people do n't tend to notice the long hours ! ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , but they have all sorts of ideas do n't they ? |
| 21 | There were all sorts of arguments went on between and the central defender that 's Phil on loan from Sheffield Wednesday tonight with playing at left back , and what was doing , well maybe could explain to because I could n't fathom it either myself . |
| 22 | You know what schools are like — all sorts of rumours get around : this master is a sex-maniac , this one an alcoholic . |
| 23 | ‘ There 'll be all sorts of rumours flying around , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Alongside the sorts of connective listed above , other kinds of link can also be useful . |
| 25 | If you can paint along all sorts of possibilities open up . |
| 26 | By clever use of the medium and washes , all sorts of possibilities open up . |
| 27 | During the dark the two sorts of web lasted equally well , but once dawn had broken the difference became clear . |
| 28 | It 's a fascinating project , because you 've also got all sorts of memorabilia lined up in the library . |
| 29 | And the Horton I think will stand to benefit as much as any hospital , by the proposed N H S reforms in insuring that er money follows the patients , and that we do n't have these sorts of situations arising again , whereby when hospitals treat more patients they simply run out of money more quickly . |
| 30 | The baddies of course shoot back costing you time and points . |