Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 2 | We welcome all sorts of investors here on fair terms . |
| 3 | It 's very unlikely we 'll be making much in those sorts of developments much of those sorts of developments this year with our current budget . |
| 4 | In Scandinavia the root used to be eaten as bread , and the strongly flavoured seeds had all sorts of applications especially to alcoholic drinks . |
| 5 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 6 | A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) . |
| 7 | New product-protecting patents were more effective than all other methods of appropriability only in drugs , while in organic chemicals , plastics , and steel-mill products , they were no less effective than alternate methods of appropriability ( see Levin et al. , |
| 8 | Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary . |
| 9 | I listened to attendant noises coming on gradually — the scuffles and grunts and curses of men near at hand , a more distant din of shod feet moving at the double , shouted commands . |
| 10 | I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House . |
| 11 | This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year . |
| 12 | Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon . |
| 13 | [ D. Woodward , The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642 , British Academy , Records of Social and Economic History , NS , vol. viii , 1984 . ] |
| 14 | A JOBLESS plasterer moved into a £100,000 farmhouse on 140 acres of land yesterday after proving he was the love-child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 15 | According to preliminary estimates , twelve of the southern countries have been damaged by severe erosion to the extent of about 70 million acres out of some 140 million acres of land now in crops . |
| 16 | It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again . |
| 17 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 18 | The superb hotel is set in 9 acres of grounds close to Cheltenham 's town centre . |
| 19 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 20 | One way to bring these different aspects of quality together in a concerted way is through total quality management , discussed later in the chapter . |
| 21 | Half an hour later Bathsheba arrived home , with Troy 's words of love still in her ears . |
| 22 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 23 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 24 | Other ‘ declinists ’ helped found the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 , meeting in different cities each year for lectures and discussions in various ‘ sections ’ ; but Swainson played no part in it , thus avoiding the power struggles in which gentlemen of science usually with Cambridge connections came in effect to direct the organization . |
| 25 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 26 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 27 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 28 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 29 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
| 30 | It is estimated that there are six million people in the UK who are able to use existing designs of bus only with great difficulty or not at all . |