Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the match we were strolling companionably through the handsome streets of the town , past a striking collection of houses and shops built from the mellow , biscuit-coloured local stone . |
| 2 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
| 3 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 4 | This creates the dilemma illustrated in the project discussed above , of appearing to meet local needs when in fact such actions do little about the real causes of social problems and may indeed aggravate them by uprooting local leaders . |
| 5 | On a more positive note , the sole practitioner generally needs to care little about the financial decisions of his colleagues and how they might affect his income . |
| 6 | Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town . |
| 7 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 8 | This process of learning takes place more rapidly and intensely during the early years of childhood than in later life . |
| 9 | People are n't going to request your record unless they have heard of it , and finally , they wo n't have heard of your record unless it has been promoted properly through the usual channels of TV , radio , music press , national press and live shows . |
| 10 | This book is all about defending yourself against baddies but , so far , I have n't mentioned much about the specific types of this particularly unpleasant breed . |
| 11 | We have learnt much about the possible pitfalls of a flexible approach . |
| 12 | We hear much about the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology : shorter product development times , easier maintenance , better portability , all purportedly resulting in better quality products . |
| 13 | The home of the world 's oldest surviving lifeboat tells us much about the maritime traditions of Captain Cook Country . |
| 14 | Certain tasks can be performed only through the combined efforts of a number of people working together — e.g. a police or a medical operation . |
| 15 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 16 | Throughout 1811 – 12 attacks on machinery took place not only through the stocking-making counties of Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire and Derbyshire but also in the woollen districts of the West Riding and the cotton districts of Lancashire . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is only through the dedicated actions of many parents that the meeting took place . |
| 18 | The religious observances of the inhabitants of Corbridge are well attested , not only through the structural remains of the six or so temples which lined the south side of the main east-west street near the military compounds but also through the number of dedications and items of religious sculpture which have been recovered from the site ; quite a number , though , of the dedications were made by military personnel or army units . |
| 19 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 20 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
| 21 | So much for the various qualities of books . |
| 22 | So much for the basic qualifications of recruits into AIB . |
| 23 | ‘ And where are we going ? ’ she added , her eyes widening in apprehension as the limousine began moving swiftly through the narrow streets of the City . |
| 24 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 25 | However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course . |
| 26 | Only during the occasional bursts of sunshine did they begin to sing with birds and bugs . |
| 27 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 28 | Numerical simulation of pressure-temperature-time paths of amphibolitic oceanic crust shows that partial melting can occur only during the early stages of subduction initiated in hot , young ( 50Myr ) oceanic lithosphere . |
| 29 | In the past , fleas used to be a problem only during the warmer months of the year in temperate areas , but now the advent of central heating has enabled these parasites to plague dogs and their owners for much of the year . |
| 30 | In the fourth century , as we learn from inscriptions ( e.g. Syll. 957 ) , the ‘ defence of Eleusis ’ was the charge of detachments of the young conscripts called epheboi ; and Eleusis , Panakton and Phyle are mentioned together as the main fortresses of Attica in a hellenistic text ( Syll. 485 ) . |