Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases .
2 Risks of biotechnology and their regulation
3 Mrs Henderson plans to establish later this year the Gregory and Maria Henderson Endowment for the Study of the Visual Arts of Korea and its Neighbors .
4 The handmaids of the Everqueen are not mere courtiers ; they are her warrior guard — a hundred beautiful Elf-maids schooled in the arts of war till they exceed or even surpass the greatest of Elf knights with sword , bow and lance .
5 In our commitment as a party to home rule , we proceed on the footing not only that the distinctive characteristics of Scotland and its people need expression and institutions of government , but that the demands of modern government require those institutions to be immediate , sensitive and properly democratic .
6 No doubt personality problems played some part in the views of many of the individuals concerned , but perceived characteristics of Jews and their alleged behaviour provided a rationalization of such extremist views for most members of these organizations .
7 The migration reversal is as pervasive across the socio-demographic characteristics of movers as it is across regions .
8 * Develop a register for your academic writing which avoids characteristics of speech but which you can still comfortably read aloud ( see pp. 73 – 4 ) .
9 Do you agree that the characteristics of Skelton as we have considered them this morning , make a contribution to the setting of the historic city of York ?
10 There will always be a shortfall in the expectatins of claimants and what they can receive .
11 Kodak , for example , is beginning to reap the same sorts of advantage as it carefully allocates supply among all its producing units .
12 Okay , it starts so what we 're talking there in text books you 'll find they define groups in terms of their structure and their composition and they 're the sorts of things that they usually pick out Okay , there 's a lot of work then on interaction in groups .
13 Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect .
14 They would n't add up to the sorts of things that we 've got .
15 All these sorts of things are going to be the sorts of things that we 'll bring up in discussion , but you wo n't realize what the problems are until you tried doing it .
16 And she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the the new Wandsbergh development .
17 So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development .
18 And before the children left they were given a carrier bag with all sorts of things that you could think of and to see the delight on those little children 's faces !
19 What can we get out of it and we 'll do that tomorrow , we 'll derive y'know estimates of expectations , co-efficients and and elasticities and it 's those sorts of things that you might be asked to in an exam but , you wo n't need to derive anything in your exams
20 So these are the sorts of things that you want to be looking for .
21 Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer .
22 Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with .
23 Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done .
24 And certainly if you look at the case for very many women not in the job tops we 're talking about low paid work erm low rates of unionisation , very , very low rates of day care erm it 's those sorts of things that I 'm talking about , and for me those are very , very much more important than the fact that we 've only got one woman Chief Officer at the top in the County Council .
25 The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past …
26 But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit .
27 There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose .
28 erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that
29 I remembered all sorts of things and my young father hardly at all .
30 I had tried out Indonesian cooking with the chef , makeup , hairdressing and all sorts of things and it was good fun .
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