Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in the Maya world-view there was no sense of progress but only a blending of past , present , and future , which all tended to become one . |
| 2 | Recognising the inherent flexibility of microelectronics-based technologies it seeks to influence not only the rate of change but also the choice and design of new technology and associated systems of working . |
| 3 | Scheilenberg waited , desperate for a cigarette , but aware also of how totally Himmler disapproved of smoking and then the door opened and Rossman appeared with another man . |
| 4 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 5 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 6 | Also , step back from engagement , never forward ; an exciting bout generates a great deal of noise and sometimes the opponent does n't hear the referee 's call to stop the bout . |
| 7 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 8 | Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee . |
| 9 | The bookkeeping for this inter-fund transfer is a potential source of difficulty because strictly the transaction generates two double-entries . |
| 10 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 11 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 12 | I 'm not afraid of money but occasionally a writer wants to write something for love and for pleasure |
| 13 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 14 | The opening of the Springfield Works not only marked a change of base but also a change of direction for the company . |
| 15 | You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population . |
| 16 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 17 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 18 | They show a continuing collapse in inflation and that can only help the competitiveness of industry and thereafter the growth of the economy and the creation of jobs . |
| 19 | Mr Shultz had been an economics professor , the Nixon administration 's man in charge of labour and then the economy , and subsequently a top executive at the Bechtel Corporation , an international construction giant . |
| 20 | In front , southwards and seawards , there was a stretch of gravel and then the ground fell away abruptly down to the sea . |
| 21 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 22 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 23 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 24 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 25 | Inner conflict involves the experience of temptation , the seduction of ambition and often a struggle with God , perceived or unrealised . |
| 26 | He watched the emotions play over her young face ; the stir of anger , the hint of disappointment and then a smile settled , hesitant , ravishing in its innocence . |
| 27 | For some authors perspective provides both the laws of perception and also the key to the true and rational representation of objects . |
| 28 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 29 | Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts . |
| 30 | I exist with a primary school football team and th the two skills that they 're able to develop , the powers of concentration and hopefully a sense of fair play . |