Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 2 | Led by John Mason they visited , among other places , New York , Washington , Niagara , Chicago , the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky and , rather gruesomely , the recently deserted battlefields of Virginia where they saw ‘ skulls , arms and legs all bleaching in the sun ’ . |
| 3 | If we end up with two radically different versions of PostScript then we face real and serious problems |
| 4 | Things like that are not constructive at all , I mean I know you must get to the stage with some members of staff where you think oh , what else can I do , but |
| 5 | Once again , the presence of an adult to help keep things going will make it easier for the cameraman , whose job it is to cover the most interesting bits of action wherever it may take place within the four walls of the room . |
| 6 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 7 | If you like bland pieces of art then you 'll probably be a bland person . |
| 8 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 9 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 10 | I love a piece of orange , I I would n't eat a whole orange but I do like er little pieces of oranges now I might get away with that but if I was to have a whole orange |
| 11 | The house was full of little flights of steps where he least expected them . |
| 12 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |
| 13 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 14 | Tee-shirts and er sweat shirts and all sorts of things so we can take them along , so that 's , that 's Saturday the m , seventh of March , if you think you can help at all see Avriel afterwards . |
| 15 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 16 | Moreover , when one group of enterprises is given the privilege of retaining foreign exchange while others are obliged to apply for administrative allocations , which they know that they will frequently not receive , or to buy foreign exchange on the black market at a high price , the latter enterprises begin to think of all sorts of reasons why they too should receive part of the foreign exchange proceeds of exports . |
| 17 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 18 | Well from here I can see all sorts of bits so I suggest if you get |
| 19 | Shakespeare , in Henry IV , probably echoed the sentiments of many parents of changelings when he wrote : |
| 20 | You can buy all kinds of filler now it should do anything , indoors or outdoors |
| 21 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 22 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 23 | During those years of service overseas he acquired fluency in eight oriental and African languages , and wrote a number of erudite articles which appeared in the Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society . |
| 24 | The very demarcation between those types of cases where it has been and where it has not been utilised is , in itself , informative . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 26 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 27 | By the same token , if your equipment is small pieces of equipment then you would not have the facility to do a large volume of meals . |
| 28 | To compensate , the latter category are allowed longer slices of time when they are selected to use the processor . |
| 29 | These are only two examples of cases where it should be possible for a non-trading corporation , which asserts that its reputation is capable of being damaged by the defamatory statement , to sue for libel . |
| 30 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |