Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second volume will include 410 examples of late-Roman and Byzantine glass ( fourth to seventh centuries ) and the third will cover 460 pieces of Roman free-blown glass ( first to third centuries ) . |
| 2 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 3 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 4 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 5 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 6 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 7 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 8 | I could n't be an A&R man because I hate that side of the business . |
| 9 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 10 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 11 | Emos Page and Time offers professional users of the Word Perfect WP package the opportunity to increase revenue . |
| 12 | If she stays she is trapped in a marriage and lifestyle which offers scant prospect of achieving personal happiness . |
| 13 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 14 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 15 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 16 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 17 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 18 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 19 | The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital . |
| 20 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 21 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 22 | They all expected each member of the staff to express — discreetly — particular and intense interest in their child . |
| 23 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 24 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 25 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 26 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 27 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 28 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 29 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 30 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |