Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a service there should be a mix of these and not a concentration on one metre or one key , for example . |
| 2 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 3 | Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two . |
| 4 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 5 | The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago . |
| 6 | Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 8 | Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour . |
| 9 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 10 | Well look the the one quarter part of it means , find the fourth root of sixteen and then the three means cube your answer . |
| 11 | Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy . |
| 12 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 13 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 14 | Some MPs and peers were in favour of one but not the other . |
| 15 | It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood . |
| 16 | And then er just work out the length of this and then the length of that and then subtract these two lengths . |
| 17 | Continuity between the two fabliaux in the case of animal imagery is a matter of more than just a general resemblance . |
| 18 | Harry Williams ' home-bred flyer has attracted tremendous ante-post support at odds of 100–1 and now the bookmakers have dramatically cut the price to 50–1 , with a few layers offering a more generous 66–1 . |
| 19 | So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees . |
| 20 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 21 | And this was a wonderful old grocery shop , er plain wooden floors you know , no tiles or anything like that , just the wood floors and I can see the barrels of apples and the barrels of this and then the oranges and the all the groceries and the bags of flour and the bags of sugar and and the and the grocer weighing the sugar up and all this sort of thing . |
| 22 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |