Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lectures and texts do all that sort of thing for you . |
| 2 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 3 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 4 | Only that portion of income above this figure is taxed at a marginally higher rate . |
| 5 | Only that order of revelation of confession will permit recognition . |
| 6 | It is important to value highly this provision from God to build up the church . |
| 7 | The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now , and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty . |
| 8 | Apparently this level of failure in major projects to achieve expectations extends across all sectors of the economy and is especially prevalent in ‘ soft ’ projects such as the development of new IT ( ah ! that 's where DP went ! ) systems and organisational change . |
| 9 | Now of course we 've got some experience in these things and we can put together some sort of picture of what that trade unionism for a new world might look like . |
| 10 | As a result , record labels and publishers are trying to get together some form of code of ethics on sampling . |
| 11 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 12 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Obviously some world in need of scrutiny … ’ |
| 14 | As I said , I had n't won it and we were having all this trouble at home with the Federation . |
| 15 | It is always wise for the counsellor to be aware of any possible worries that the counsellee might have about the meeting , and have ready some words of reassurance about the purpose of their meeting . |
| 16 | For young women more than any other group there is so much scope for expression through the way they dress and look , so many more opportunities to have fun , play around with the rules , and make some of their own . |
| 17 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 18 | I was a little concerned that you put so much emphasis on return to work . |
| 19 | We will restore last year 's training cuts which caused so much damage to training for young people and the unemployed . |
| 20 | Given that Sir Adrian places so much store by integrity in top management , he views the apparent decline in business morals with some concern . |
| 21 | If things are as bad as the hon. Gentleman says , will my right hon. Friend ask the business men why the west midlands has managed to attract so much investment in manufacturing from abroad , why foreign countries have chosen to locate in the United Kingdom and whether they believe that those people would stay if they had to experience the burden of heavy taxation , job losses and days lost in strikes that would occur with the return of a Labour Government ? |
| 22 | I would be interested in looking at this , although there is now so much pressure on space in our magazine that is may not be possible to include it . |
| 23 | erm It may be that in certain places there 's so much pressure on land from the people that there 's not a lot they can do . |
| 24 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 25 | It is nice to visit foreign teams but it means losing so much time in midweek to travelling when we could be concentrating on preparation for League games . |
| 26 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 27 | Falck shares a plainness and Englishness with Cope , but his stock in trade is not so much memorability of phrase as an absolute fidelity to primary feeling . |
| 28 | To bring so many sources of inspiration into an authentically new work , using contemporary media , is itself an inspiration . |
| 29 | This piece of verbal jugglery was invented as a ready response to the increasingly common question as to why after so many billions and so many decades of effort by the experts and the international development set , the gap between the rich and poor was widening and the number of destitute people had increased to nearly a billion . |
| 30 | In his Manchester Boys ( 1905 ) Charles Russell also recounted how ‘ horrible murders and terrible tragedies were enacted before the footlights ’ , leading to ‘ so many instances of violence on the part of young men , in the back streets of the city ’ . |