Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characteristic symptoms of monopolization can be seen in the reorganization of music hall as early as the 1880s ; corporate ownership , national and regional syndicates and chains , and restrictive licensing policies combined to freeze out the small entrepreneur ( see Bailey 1986a , passim ) . |
| 2 | The Association of Tennis Professionals yesterday announced that its end-of-season doubles championship next year will take place at the Sanctuary Cove resort near Brisbane in Australia . |
| 3 | The Association of Art Historians really should take a stand and publish minimum fees for one-off lectures . ’ |
| 4 | We could smell the salty tang of sea air less than a mile away , and we could hear the mewing of gulls . |
| 5 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 6 | Remarkably , more than a third ( 83m ) are University of Wales dissertations , three metres and a great deal of midnight oil more than in the previous year . |
| 7 | A great deal of bomb debris still remains to be cleared , but valiant efforts have been made to remove refuse . |
| 8 | Deeply though a great deal of crime fiction today is rooted in the blueprint detective story , there is now only a small public for such books in their pure form and , I think , there are not so many writers who want to produce them . |
| 9 | The main bulk of dementia sufferers now and in the future are elderly women , many of them living alone . |
| 10 | The surprise defeat of Puma Sunderland away to Top Spin Darlington meant that with two games in hand Ilkley need to win only one of their last two matches to be the North-East representatives in the area play-offs . |
| 11 | MORLEY STREET returned ‘ in smashing shape ’ following his impressive defeat of brother Granville Again in the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday . |
| 12 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 13 | A succession of opinion surveys strongly suggests that most people regard a family size of two children as ideal ; this preference seems to have grown stronger over the years ( Woolf 1971 , Woolf and Pegden 1976 , Dunnell 1979 , General Household Survey , Jowell et al . |
| 14 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 15 | Brenda was a youthful veteran of package tours where groups and singers did brief sets of their big hits , and can recall touring Britain in 1964 with Manfred Mann , Marty Wilde , and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates . |
| 16 | The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling . |
| 17 | Inner London and the inner areas of a number of industrial cities suffered first , but the loss of manufacturing jobs then spread to the outer areas of cities and to wider regions , such as the West Midlands and the North West , where these were based on manufacturing . |
| 18 | Because normal subjects had virtually identical values of active and total caeruloplasmin , we estimate that Wilson 's disease is caused by loss of oxidase activity rather than abnormal synthesis of caeruloplasmin . |
| 19 | The relative decline of the UK economy has been accompanied by the loss of world leadership both in successive individual industries and in fields of social and welfare reform . |
| 20 | Where leftist governments do gain power , international financial markets and the loss of business confidence automatically create unfavourable climates for radical social reforms , normally shaping the ‘ economic facts of life ’ to constrain any fundamental alteration of capitalism long before the ultimate weapons available to domestic business ( such as investment strikes ) have to be brought into play . |
| 21 | I appreciate this difficulty with hearing in debates , church etc and conversation among groups of people , but my particular complaint is the loss of sound location out of doors mainly , but also in the home . |
| 22 | TWO hand-written Beatles ' Sergeant Pepper lyrics were sold for a total of £85,000 at an auction of pop memorabilia yesterday . |
| 23 | ( If this is the result of company expansion then the chances of career opportunities are good ) |
| 24 | Increased earnings , grabbed as a result of strike action rather than earned by increased productivity and profitability had always been subsequently eaten away by inflation . |
| 25 | Flight timings and Carriers in the brochure are subject to change as a result of airline procedures please check final details on your tickets . |
| 26 | We 'll give you the result of picture puzzle then . |
| 27 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 28 | Another example of regional development has been in the relocation of Government Departments away from the south-east . |
| 29 | We thought that last year we hoped that last year , the murder of migrant workers in and the demonstrations of fascist thugs was clearly not isolated . |
| 30 | The combustion of fossil fuels also results in the pollution of the atmosphere . |