Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 2 | Especially well known is Willis 's Learning to Labour , a study of cultures which working class children construct for themselves at school . |
| 3 | It 's said , it 's piece of shit you Norwegian twats . |
| 4 | Will you please on your piece of paper your blank piece of ordinary paper s s create those five bars now and would you please put in the appropriate signs either crescendo or diminuendo . |
| 5 | The former Maesteg coach is best known for his work at what was once known as Cardiff College of Education whose former student include Lyn ‘ the Leap ’ Davies , Gareth Edwards and John Bevan and more recently , John Devereux and Tony Copsey . |
| 6 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 7 | Dolphins have a sense which we do not have : using something akin to our sonar , they can ‘ see ’ their surroundings holographically ( in true 3D , rather than the effect of 3D our stereoscopic vision creates ) . |
| 8 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 9 | Under the immensity of weight which such considerations hold for the developing youngster , it is not surprising that sexuality falls into comparative disregard . |
| 10 | Fifteen separate routes have been made the responsibility of managers whose chief aim is to satisfy their customers . |
| 11 | Equally , the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an ‘ Act of Parliament ’ solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd . |
| 12 | The level of support which young people receive from parents and mentors will also have a significant effect upon the process of transition , for it is a stage in which their dependency is visibly apparent . |
| 13 | Not comfortable with the kind of vacations their working-class parents had enjoyed — the summer weeks at Brighton or Atlantic City — these young people were ideal customers for a new and exotic version of the ‘ hangout ’ of their teen years . |
| 14 | ‘ And come to think of it , this is n't so dissimilar to the kind of influence your genetic father might wish to have on you , were it not for the fact that he is such a contemptible Essene , a cloistral nonentity capable of only the meanest interaction with his fellow men . |
| 15 | So the erm but as , but as Katherine reminds us , I mean if , if that 's the kind of life our emotional parameters are my , my guess is that that , is that that 's probably the truth , certainly a persuasive argument . |
| 16 | This was the kind of neutralisation which Soviet leaders could find attractive in Third World regions like Southeast Asia where the Western military presence considerably outweighed that of the USSR . |
| 17 | In consequence he became , in Liddie 's eyes , the kind of mother her own mother had been — one who disabled her by taking over . |
| 18 | Political correspondence often includes some pretty broad hints of the kind of recompense which local revenue officers may have expected from their offices . |
| 19 | In order to discern the reason for the use of to with the infinitive in passive sentences of the type just mentioned , we must begin therefore by trying to observe the kind of meaning which these sentences express and the type of context in which they are used . |
| 20 | In Vous les entendez ? ( 1972 ) , an art object is the topic of discussion : it becomes a kind of totem whose aesthetic value is upheld by a father and contested by his children . |
| 21 | The sundew was used in the making of tartan to produce a fine purple , but best known of all is ( Parmelia saxatilis ) , a kind of lichen whose Gaelic name has gained more popular currency among English-speakers in Scotland than the equivalent translation , stone parmelia . |
| 22 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 23 | It was one of those typical Arctic mornings , with the sun shining through a veil of sea-mist which limited visibility at sea level to a hundred metres or so . |
| 24 | Adorno , Marcuse , and Habermas , like Lukács , work from a similar historical periodization of culture whose fundamental characteristics can be found in Hegel 's writings on aesthetics . |
| 25 | Eliot 's reading of Heart of Darkness whose Buddha-like clerk , Marlow , saw London as ‘ one of the dark places of the earth ’ further blended savage and ‘ sepulchral city ’ . |
| 26 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 27 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 28 | Even a Roman road might be interfered with in this way and diverted from its ancient line ; and in the course of time its exact line became lost and the subject of an archaeological problem today . |
| 29 | Second , the component of DM which this equation does not account for should not exhibit any pattern for , if it did , then rational agents would exploit that pattern to improve their forecasts . |
| 30 | Dividends due to the non-resident , and in case of liquidation its distributable share in the equity are transferable in the original currency of investment . |