Example sentences of "[det] [noun] of [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 2 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 3 | Fees will normally be based on time taken at premium rates to reflect the skills and responsibilities of the assignment or on some mix of fixed and contingency fee . |
| 4 | A few words of Czech or Slovak learned beforehand will certainly be a great help and in the cities German is often understood . |
| 5 | All aspects of intersection control that I could think of , and even some aspects of urban and road design and management are included in a chapter on links between intersections . |
| 6 | Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture . |
| 7 | It also follows that if the system is to survive , its various parts must have some degree of fit or compatibility . |
| 8 | However , I feel there should be two grades because of the difficulty of actually getting the game started with one service in some areas of junior or park tennis . |
| 9 | Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would most likely be ‘ schizoaffective psychosis ’ , precipitated in the first instance by childbirth . |
| 10 | Nizan notes : Perhaps if you are squeamish , you can not appreciate this world where the good guys are ruthlessly divided from the bad guys , this world of Good and Evil , this Dickensian liking for the triumph of the good guys . |
| 11 | Professional interventions , far from being a source of help and support , are often another cause of upset and trouble . |
| 12 | Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule . |
| 13 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |
| 14 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 15 | there is little evidence of parental or pupil opposition to option schemes ; |
| 16 | Currently , however , there is little evidence of detailed or widescale evaluations of these systems . |
| 17 | The charity 's free and confidential advice service on all aspects of residential and nursing home care will continue . |
| 18 | The men and women I have met come from all sorts of social and employment backgrounds . |
| 19 | Article J.1 of that Title declares : ‘ The Union and its Member States shall define and implement a common foreign and security policy , governed by the provisions of this Title and covering all areas of foreign and security policy . ’ |
| 20 | The draft declared that " the policy of the Union aims at covering all areas of foreign and security policy … including , eventually , the framing of a defence policy " . |
| 21 | The consequences for the old are sad : on a practical level , when income is restricted , all kinds of practical and material benefits may also be denied to old people . |
| 22 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 23 | There are many varieties of wooden and plastic toys meant for counting and sorting . |
| 24 | Joint initiatives at all levels of pre- and postregistration courses are now being introduced , and more qualified staff are choosing to study for a qualification at diploma or degree level as part of their continuing professional education . |
| 25 | And we could show bar codes in a supermarket and tell people that all notions of good and evil , beauty and horror , have been totally turned into bits of information … ‘ |
| 26 | This may involve improving the ability of employees to handle different tasks and move between jobs ; making more use of temporary and part time staff ; or finding ways of rewarding multi-skilled or high performing employees . |
| 27 | Watchfully the johns back their way into the significant rooms , the short-lease apartments of the low tenement on Herrera , a building that basks in its own brand of damp and dread . |
| 28 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |
| 29 | At Leicester , twenty miles away , with much the same kind of industrial and population history , things happened quite differently . |
| 30 | Any blend of black and country music would have powerful precedents . |