Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further on , the road crosses open moorland to arrive at Grudie Bridge , which is not now the delightful picnic spot it used to be , the old stone bridge having been replaced and many of the noble pines sacrificed to road widening ; nothing , however , can diminish the majesty of Slioch directly across the water . |
| 2 | Perhaps they could now get each episode of Eldorado down to that length . |
| 3 | The database represents a repository of information together with facilities for data manipulation . |
| 4 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
| 5 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 6 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |
| 7 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 8 | Spiritual and organisational precursors are also fully dealt with , though some may find the inclusions and conclusions rather fanciful — indeed , this subject causes a great deal of disagreement even in official circles . |
| 9 | Peter 's situation illustrates the fact that patients who spend very little time in hospital or have minor procedures performed still have anxieties and may need a great deal of help both before and after discharge . |
| 10 | If we are interested in creating a democratic society there is clearly a great deal of work yet to be done . |
| 11 | In any event , come again , we always have a great deal of variety here at the theatre and if you are a speedy worker , you should do very well . ’ |
| 12 | There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese . |
| 13 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 14 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 15 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 16 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 17 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 18 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 19 | The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process . |
| 20 | Unlike the Jakob cats , Griselda spent a good deal of time out of doors . |
| 21 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 22 | If a database is the result of a great deal of effort alone with little judgment in the design of the database or in the selection of material ( for example , a telephone directory stored in a computer database or a directory of postcodes ) it is debatable whether it will attract copyright protection . |
| 23 | Many people see the penis as a joke ; although I 've never got a great deal of amusement out of mine . |
| 24 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
| 25 | There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree . |
| 26 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 27 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 28 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 29 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |
| 30 | If we understand people as continually persisting in what we have earlier termed ‘ identity projects ’ it need come as no surprise to find increasingly affluent households necessarily consuming pastiche , the extraction of history out of context , and superficiality as a normal way of life . |