Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 2 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 3 | It is important that the characteristics of division used in this process should be mutually exclusive in order to avoid cross-classification ( documents on one and the same subject being classified at different places in the scheme ) . |
| 4 | The distinguishing of mental events by content is of course open to error , including error owed to memory and the sorts of error established by psychological research into introspection or direct awareness . |
| 5 | Having considered the various modes of experience ( including science and practice ) and the different sorts of knowledge involved in concrete human activity , we may now address Oakeshott 's argument about the emergence of Rationalism in politics . |
| 6 | She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again . |
| 7 | A great deal of spending went on social and community projects , an area where the voluntary sector flourished . |
| 8 | ‘ It is easy to make the judgement that there is a good deal of fatalism held by unskilled workers … [ they ] believe they ‘ do n't have the knowledge ’ to think about the organization of their work . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 10 | Third on fuel costs , the inquiry is likely to spend a great deal of time looking at coal-price assumptions , because Sizewell would be uneconomic if coal prices do not experience any real increase . |
| 11 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
| 12 | On the whole , radio stations are friendlier places than TV stations and have a good deal of time to fill with non-controversial general interest material . |
| 13 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 14 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 15 | Therefore , I do n't propose to take a great deal of time going through this report . |
| 16 | The cuckoo , especially the male when singing , spends a great deal of time sitting on exposed perches , making it particularly vulnerable . |
| 17 | The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’ |
| 18 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 19 | Competition was further boosted with the lifting of exchange controls in 1979 , and by 1981 the competition that had grown within the monetary sector spilled over to confront building societies as banks moved into mortgage lending . |
| 20 | The new measures , announced in September and October , included the floating of the currency and the lifting of price controls on some petroleum products . |
| 21 | In recent years , Christians from the two traditions have cast aside centuries of hostility to lobby on political issues . |
| 22 | Durnford and Kimura therefore concluded that the right hemisphere is specialised for the perception of depth cued by retinal disparity . |
| 23 | The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier . |
| 24 | A number of projects have been successful in which the supply of inputs and the marketing of the product are managed on a commercial basis while the bulk of production comes from small farmers . |
| 25 | Think , for example , of the force of traditionalism represented by contemporary Islam . |
| 26 | Entry , in particular , brings a force of discipline to bear upon existing firms , and is also frequently an important source of the new ideas which promote dynamism in industries . |
| 27 | It resembles a hollow ring of land surrounded by scattered archipelagos . |
| 28 | Although many teachers opposed the apartheid regime , their only training has been in the rigid and authoritarian methods of education used in black South African schools , with no freedom or initiative allowed to the teacher . |
| 29 | There are , however , several other methods of reproduction practised by various protozoans on occasions . |
| 30 | Remember — the methods of communication employed at all BDDA Congresses , Council meetings , Conferences , and Church Services is the language of the Deaf and Dumb . |