Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the walk is waymarked with green/yellow arrows though as much of it is over rarely used rights of way you 'll need to keep your OS maps close at hand .
2 If the embryos have taken so much trouble to have so well-defined patterns of cleavage it is a reasonable expectation that the cleavage pattern may be involved in specifying cell fate .
3 long , long plain pieces of area you could
4 I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work .
5 We will examine each of these misconceptions in turn , so that once we have torn away these layers of misunderstanding we can get to the kernel of doubt and see not only its dangers but its value .
6 Some of the most impressively complex examples of behaviour we see are known to be wholly innate .
7 apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got
8 The more extreme flights of rhetoric we encountered were almost always associated with managerial detachment from the classroom .
9 If you have children under five years of age you can not get free milk but the rates of Family credit are increased because of this .
10 Although I must say I I mean , one of the most fascinating pieces of politics I was ever involved in , was when I had to defend Mrs Thatcher over the Belgrano incident .
11 One of the most likeable lumps of shit I ever come across . ’
12 forms on slightly bigger pieces of paper I think .
13 The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains .
14 I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them
15 ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great !
16 does really brilliant figures of people you know .
17 The young hedgehogs are reared by their mothers , and at about four weeks of age they may be seen foraging with her in the darkness .
18 The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty .
19 What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates .
20 And if you drink as much tea as you say you do , just think how many teaspoons of sugar you have a day , extra .
21 Where there is no capital punishment , however , the question of how many degrees of homicide it is desirable to have calls for careful weighing of the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( l ) ) against the cost and time arguments mobilised by the policy of efficient administration ( see Chapter 3.3 ( m ) ) .
22 She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range .
23 If you want to know how many units of alcohol you drink , look up the type of drink in the left column .
24 It was disquieting how many aspects of America he found praiseworthy , once he had returned home .
25 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food how many miles of hedgerow he expects to be planted in the United Kingdom over each of the next three years .
26 The children then dive for them and see how many items of treasure they can catch .
27 Since most versions of legal theory are at least partial visions of law it is unsurprising that the criminal law will throw up both confirmations and refutations of most legal theories .
28 For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it .
29 ‘ Jock ’ Barber left 261 Squadron on posting to A.H.Q. The last of the original Hurricane pilots still with the squadron , during his almost ten months of operations he had flown over 90 sorties , claimed three and one shared shot down and at least three damaged .
30 However , there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look .
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