Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education plans are made well in advance and for each intake of learners it should be possible to predict their whereabouts for the whole of the training period . |
| 2 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |
| 3 | ‘ The only thing left to do is to sort through that pile of things we cleared out of the cupboards and throw away what we do n't need anymore . ’ |
| 4 | You 've got enough cheek for another set of teeth you ! |
| 5 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 6 | For some languages of expressions it will be possible in general to decide these facts ( though perhaps not very efficiently ) , and in any reasonable language thee should be wide classes of pairs of expressions whose equivalence is decidable . |
| 7 | Instead they enter college wedded through their own experience to an implicit theory of schooling and teaching that will serve as a working template for some groups of pupils they teach , but which will be wildly inappropriate for others . |
| 8 | ‘ After three months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues . |
| 9 | After seven hours of talks it was announced that they had signed a peace agreement . |
| 10 | In the eyes of that generation of students he gave Liberalism a magic , a faith in the future . |
| 11 | He said they 've changed your units , and he said there 's an allocation a back allocation for you of forty baskets of tomatoes he said to me . |
| 12 | However , in order to show the ‘ historical ’ nature of this state of affairs they had to stress the existence of previous stages when private property was absent . |
| 13 | In the light of this catalogue of achievements it was almost inevitable that Geoff should gain his second Player of the Year award from out discerning supporters , while the fact that he earned it in Palace 's most successful season of all time is a clear demonstration of both his immense value and huge contribution to our club . |
| 14 | If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor . |
| 15 | Or it could mean cutting Russian exports , which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need . |
| 16 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 17 | That , sort of , it 's got the , it 's one of those sort of days I think when you 've got lots of cloud about broken clouds , so every now and again the sun will come through and light up different areas of the picture . |
| 18 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |
| 19 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 20 | Through these chutes of slates you could inspect the weather , which was making a comeback of the stalled-career variety , the sun all rusty and out of condition , glowing then failing suddenly like a damp torch . |
| 21 | Actually they 're fifties maisonettes in the city 's East End , there 's nothing satanic about them , they 're just like any block of flats you 've ever seen , only worse . |
| 22 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 23 | for all sorts of reasons it may fail to fulfil its potential . |
| 24 | That i that is completely infeasible for all for all sorts of reasons it would be grossly unfair on council tenants to throw them out of their house . |
| 25 | With total lack of inhibitions she rolled face down and , her mouth buried in her pillow , howled like an animal over his death . |
| 26 | With another couple of laps he might have finished close on the heels of the two Dunlops . |
| 27 | With another group of activists he later co-ordinated another well-publicized protest after the GLC 's ‘ Fare 's Fair ’ cheap public transport proposals had been overruled by the Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 28 | His touch was feather-light , circling on her with gratifying recognition of needs she had n't known existed , coaxing in her sensations that were wild and intensely pleasurable . |
| 29 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 30 | We learned a copperplate at my convent , with elaborate curlicues of capitals I have not seen in any other calligraphy . |