Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another . |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia , accounting for almost half of the Middle East 's proven oil reserves and over a quarter of world proven reserves , has the power to insist upon its rôle as OPEC 's swing producer . |
| 3 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 4 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 5 | All that is intended here is that the would-be surveyor and sampler has some indication of the possibilities open in sampling methods and also a warning of the problems which sampling entails . |
| 6 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 7 | Secondly , as these yields and therefore the cost of non-bank borrowing fall , the demand for bank lending is reduced . |
| 8 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 9 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 10 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 11 | The picket lines are up , the rule book 's out and it 's eight months and not a stroke of royal work for me . |
| 12 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 13 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 14 | Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered . |
| 15 | Through the half-open door , into the dry , shrivelling heat of the great , evil-smelling room , there appeared branchlike shapes and then a fall of blood-stained , leaflike hair . |
| 16 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 17 | Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details . |
| 18 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 19 | He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium . |
| 20 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |
| 21 | Forests disappeared , reducing grazing areas and possibly the number of cattle . |
| 22 | Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without . |
| 23 | The exposure draft aims to confine the use of merger accounting to the relatively small number of cases which are true mergers of two companies and not the takeover of one company by another . |
| 24 | The usefulness of large and long credits by tradesmen to suppliers was well known to the businessman who was secretary to several railway companies and later the editor of the Leeds Times . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 26 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 27 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 28 | His mum had got the caterers in back at the house and there were great plates of sandwiches and cakes and even a couple of barrels of Tetley 's out in the kitchen with the head waiter from the restaurant at Mary Ann Evans 's dispensing from the tap . |
| 29 | It 's sunny , and the clouds have form and shape , and underneath or away from the sun they are in shadow , greys and even a touch of brown . |
| 30 | County councillor John Herbert said : ‘ The visit highlighted the lack of modern technical equipment which is available to fire services in the former Eastern Bloc countries and even the provision of out-dated equipment from this country is an extremely worthwhile and valuable improvement . ’ |