Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So that 's what er worked on connection between the cluster of movements and sort of advanced body language if you like and the personality so someone who is perceived as using ja symmetrical palm gestures and open centre line and some movement in the feet is seen more as a as a positive communicator , a more open communicator , and it enhances the quality of the presentation .
2 There are some sort of public schools survivors groups which have been set up recently and um it 's interesting that this business of being strong and silent um is a kind of is a kind of nineteenth century hangover and I think it affects men and I think it affects women too to some extent .
3 Therefore , I can assure my hon. Friend , who represents a rural constituency , that we have very much in mind the needs of rural post offices and we shall look with interest at any requests that they make to us for extending their liability to sell other services .
4 But the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , David Pipe , said : ‘ The jockeys fail to realise that in this day and age , public opinion is fairly powerful and they are in danger of becoming the subject of private cruelty prosecutions if they are deemed to have broken our rules .
5 She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace .
6 At the other extreme , referred to as ‘ top-down ’ planning , the planning department participates in , and influences the development of , strategies and plans of each business unit as they are being prepared .
7 The omniscient author in Chapter 15 gives the reader a ‘ bird 's eye view ’ of each family group as it struggles to survive .
8 Special classes usually have the advantage of lower teacher-pupil ratios and it is therefore easier for teachers to organise activities in which the child 's level of participation in social and communicative activities can be carefully monitored and adapted to suit existing abilities .
9 Erm , the position then on carry forwards , Chairman , is that you have a number of specific contingency provisions that we are holding , funded from these previous savings .
10 I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council .
11 Cherry ( who succeeded Coleman as Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon on Coleman 's death , thus blighting the hope of assistant professor Sewell that he might follow Coleman in that post ) that Coleman was ‘ the greatest enemy that the profession has ever had in its highest ranks ’ .
12 cos it was only like sort of eight inches difference and I thought well when I wash 'em they might shrink anyway
13 A flock of eight curlew rose and we were treated to a spectacular display flight of steep flapping rises , slow glides and bubbling trills .
14 He has an injection of concentrated Vitamin B so he can play that night 's gig at CBGB 's , but he is put on a special diet for three weeks — with strictly no drink .
15 a bit more about the the range of employment you would envisage on the sort of fifty hectare site that you 've talked about .
16 If you are unsure of which style of lettering to choose for an initial design , look through some magazines or books for inspiration , or browse through a catalogue of dry transfer lettering until you had a typeface you like .
17 Nor did early twentieth-century state welfare provision do much to alleviate the position of working class wives because it too assumed the existence of the bourgeois family model and a family wage .
18 Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er
19 On to tonight 's game , obviously you got one or two injuries going into it er unfortunate th Gary obviously i has got a recurrence of that hamstring strain because he got er two of your three goals at the weekend .
20 If the vendor has the benefit of warranties given as a result of that eariler acquisition and they are assignable , then the purchaser could seek such an assignment .
21 There 's not a mile of that border safe if he turns his back now , and they know it . ’
22 Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later .
23 Get rid of that bubble gum before we get there ? ’
24 Mm we have got some more weed upstairs , some more of that plastic weed that I could put in .
25 Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this .
26 I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination .
27 The bloodhound 's nose may be so overwhelmed by the scent of fresh skin cells that it is unable to follow them .
28 Northamptonshire 's Cliff Smart 's Angling Holidays are offering up to £500 in prize money for winners of certian angling festivals if you book through them .
29 The surrender followed that of other Medellín drug cartel leaders [ see pp. 37957 ; 38001 ] who had accepted a government offer of immunity from extradition to the United States on drug and murder charges , and who faced the prospect of lighter prison sentences if they " confessed " to their crimes [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ] .
30 Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions .
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