Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura smiled that silly sort of champagne smile that all men ( all right , some men ) look for before they move in for the kill . |
| 2 | He could expect fawning adoration wherever he went — surely he could n't be so in need of blanket adulation that one heretic in the court could upset him ? |
| 3 | Yet , in so far as it can be pinned down , this is the sort of crime fiction that many writers today want to write , and many , many readers want to read . |
| 4 | This lack of free time is one of the unfortunate and regrettable aspects of college life that some students have to experience . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is in the provision of revision management that most TechDoc software fails . |
| 6 | Perhaps , together , these totems could banish the modern-day spectres of inflation and spending cuts ; of strike action that endangered hospital patients or people whose houses were on fire ; of lying politicians and rampaging football hooligans ; of the seemingly irreversible rise in unemployment , and the terrible inner-city disturbances of the summer of 1981 , from which the country was still reeling , and which had brought a suddenly sinister resonance to otherwise neighbourly sounding places . |
| 7 | In Western Europe similar lines of argument stress that sub-national governments are tied to national elites by networks of patronage , clientelism , and control over public expenditure . |
| 8 | The amount of hot air likely to be generated over the 12 days could trigger off the kind of chain reaction that global warming scientists only refer to in hushed tones . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State notice that 12 months ago every vacant job in Wales was chased by nine unemployed people but that by last month 13 unemployed people were chasing each vacancy ? |
| 10 | There is a great deal within that framework er , it 's not just about closing elderly persons homes , it 's not just about refurbishment it 's about resources and it 's resources that we 're very short of , to implement the sort of care programme that this council should be addressing . |
| 11 | Busy accountants would obviously like to save the 100 or so hours of training time that structured CPE can save them ( through the difference between obtaining the recommended target of 150 CPE points from 50 structured hours or 150 unstructured hours ) . |
| 12 | Let me quote a stern rebuke one of my own books once received from an American academic , one Thomas Ozro MacAdoo : " It is an axiom of detective fiction that each stage of the detective 's investigation must produce enough information to allow the reader to indulge in some tentative speculation as to the ultimate outcome . " |
| 13 | It was through the control of land use that post-war cities would be given their orderly structure ; major activity zones , such as residential , commercial , industrial and open space , would be sharply separated from each other . |
| 14 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 15 | I have tried to suggest that what Lévi-Strauss is doing is a form of discourse analysis that both attempts to articulate the rules governing the formation of the type of discourse and interpret the ‘ meanings ’ of utterances within the particular discourse . |
| 16 | Certainly it was up there with ‘ Girl You Need A Change Of Mind ’ by Eddie Kendricks — both innovative examples of soul music that combined drive and drama in a subtle new form . |