Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 2 | Now if if the management at home heard me doing this of course er giving you a choice but I believe in it . |
| 3 | Er and this of course er became er er a major domestic political crisis as well a difficult military situation , a difficult one to win . |
| 4 | Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing . |
| 5 | Well this of course erm depends on two factors . |
| 6 | But he has not steered clear of farming 's controversial issues . |
| 7 | In striving for this goal , however , DEC has sacrificed cache memory capacity — a third of the chip is actually taken up by clock buffers which dissipate half of Alpha 's notably high level — 30 Watts — of heat emission . |
| 8 | The only thing , I was telling you I 've got half of mum 's . |
| 9 | Although his party only won just over half of Labour 's national share of the vote , he crowned himself moral leader of the opposition the moment the election was over . |
| 10 | She had felt possessive of Spike 's help and company . |
| 11 | But some of mining 's convenient holes are in inconvenient places , far from the cities that generate most waste . |
| 12 | By now , some of Tiller 's Girls were truly world travellers ; the best troupes had bookings in Paris , St Petersburg , San Francisco , Berlin , Cape Town , Hanover , Geneva , Vienna , Buenos Aires and Hamburg . |
| 13 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 14 | But bosses at the famous casino , which has staged some of boxing 's greatest world title fights , are confident they 've scooped the big prize . |
| 15 | The club have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite in the Dubai Sevens to be held on November 19 and 20 when they will face one of the toughest rugby sevens line-ups ever assembled . |
| 16 | Orrell have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite and take part in the Dubai Sevens on November 19 and 20 . |
| 17 | After church , if it was winter , we went straight home where we were often joined by some of Mum 's old friends , mostly unmarried . |
| 18 | This most recent work presents the viewer with images of young girls ( some of Honey 's own daughter , Daisy ) who willingly take on images from the media as their own role models . |
| 19 | The second half of Darwin 's Descent of Man was devoted to sexual selection , because Darwin thought that this was the only process that could explain some of humankind 's unique features such as our loss of body hair . |
| 20 | ( As a result of diabetes Jacky lost his sight completely in 1988 , after thirty years of carrying the bags of some of golf 's greatest names . ) |
| 21 | Janis argues that some of history 's most horrific decisions have been made by groups . |
| 22 | Some of history 's worst decisions have been group decisions . |
| 23 | The cross-fertilisation of information and technology from physics and chemistry , for example , can help to fill in some of archaeology 's missing pieces by ‘ bringing new techniques to bear on old major questions ’ , noted Harris . |
| 24 | Uncle Remus might well have heard of him , for some of El-ahrairah 's adventures are those of Brer Rabbit . |
| 25 | There is as yet only an embryonic realisation of the social and economic costs of the " efficient factory " in terms of structural unemployment , frantic energy consumption , loss of job satisfaction and the squandering of some of society 's most precious assets , which are the skill , ingenuity , creativity and enthusiasm of ordinary people . |
| 26 | While some of Rabbit 's business is done on an OEM basis , with procurers over the years having included IBM , NEC , Siemens , Motorola , Intel and McDonnell Douglas , the firm has also , until recently , been selling its products direct to end users . |
| 27 | Some of those familiar with LIBERTAS also found the use of coloured keys and the wording of some of Okapi 's prompts " … condescending and a bit babyish . " |
| 28 | They will play at one of the county 's first-class grounds , watched by some of cricket 's big names . |
| 29 | When the economy picks up , some of management 's uncertainties will disappear . |
| 30 | I 'll have some of nan 's bread pudding I think . . |