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

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1 In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced .
2 Not only the characteristics of cities but also the requirements of industry need to be taken into account , and both are changing .
3 At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before .
4 It must have been a strange experience for him , Rufus had thought , knowing he owned all sorts of things but not knowing quite what or where they were .
5 I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours .
6 In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time .
7 The assistants not only preferred these sorts of activities but also felt that they were the ones most helpful to both child and teacher .
8 The temptation is to rush out to lose one 's aloneness in all sorts of activities and perhaps a wild search for replacement company .
9 If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to .
10 and er the students themselves have all sorts of problems and latterly of course we had erm a great number of mature students
11 Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom .
12 So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment .
13 My husband and I are fans of Eldorado and never miss an episode .
14 There remains a duty to ensure that there are sufficient schools appropriate to the needs , abilities and aptitudes of children as well as securing adequate provision for further education .
15 What is now home to the rare hen harrier , the short-eared owl and 170 species of birds , will shortly become the habitat of mechanical gorrillas , robot sharks and cheap imitations of nature as more than 70 per cent of the the 1200 acres are developed with prime riverside housing , studios and hotels .
16 Caustic cleaners are essentially formulations of detergent and either sodium or potassium hydroxide .
17 Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts .
18 and that was what , I mean if they had erm decided to take more te point of view and to increase production through improved methods of farming and so on , that prob erm I mean we can see that that would 've created higher yields and that , because we 've assessed the situation now
19 Each country chapter gives full descriptions of the composition of the market , types of securities , issuers , investors , methods of issuance and so on .
20 A slightly different but very stimulating approach also originating from earlier experience of chronological change is a review of Recent Earth History ( Vita-Finzi , 1973 ) which looks at the record particularly of the last 20,000 years and at methods of dating and clearly argues that :
21 He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division .
22 Then why should their legislature not impose this " strict " liability on manufacturers of automobiles but not on manufacturers of washing machines ?
23 Scilla peruviana forms large , conican racemes of flowers if shallowly planted in a hot , sunny spot
24 This competition is open to all readers of Wedding and Home in the UK and Eire , except those in any way involved in the competition .
25 This competition is open to all readers of Wedding and Home in the UK and Eire , except those in any way involved in the competition .
26 In ‘ craft ’ retailing , the store manager and staff can consult central databases of information and back the ‘ hunches ’ which come from face to face contact with customers rather than from postcodes and product flow analysis .
27 In these decades the Intercolonial railway was built to connect the eastern provinces , the Grand Trunk and several other railway companies penetrated the country districts of Ontario as well as connecting Canadian cities to each other and to the United States , while Canadian Pacific stretched its metals westwards to Vancouver .
28 As the morning progresses the rain will spread eastwards becoming persistent and locally heavy and will reach the eastern coastal districts of Antrim and Down by early afternoon .
29 who wishes to " resign " his seat must apply for one of the above offices of profit and thereby disqualify himself from sitting .
30 ‘ Clearly the series of ill-thought-out and often hastily assembled radical new ideas currently being imposed on various sectors of the national workforce bring in their wake huge tidal waves of paperwork that completely swamp any enthusiasm for change , ’ he said .
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