Example sentences of "[adv] [det] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that the mosaic of room LI of the " abaton " — and presumably that of room L — could be earlier than this ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 357 ; Britannia KIll ( 1982 ) , 380 ) . |
| 2 | For while , in the oral world of non-literacy , ignorance of letters , the national language or national institutions is no handicap , except to those whose business ( which is rarely that of agriculture ) makes such knowledge necessary , in a literate society the illiterate is by definition inferior , and has a strong incentive to remove that inferiority , at least from his or her children . |
| 3 | The position of the GP , however , is not straight-forwardly that of expert in relation to the non-expert patient , for beyond the GP are the specialists . |
| 4 | Casting the net wide , One Short pursued all branches of the creative arts , coming finally to music ; but not , as might have been imagined , calypso or reggae , rather that of country & western and one song in particular . |
| 5 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 6 | Under this guise it probes the ‘ labyrinths and inward turns of the mind ’ in abuse of power in human relationships , especially that of mistress to servants or ‘ humble companion ’ , with acute psychological insight , no doubt won while living as a dependant . |
| 7 | The advocate needs a sound knowledge of the law , especially that of evidence and procedure . |
| 8 | In the case of those from the bath-house this could mean a date before 325 ; for those of the abaton , especially that of room L , a later date might be appropriate . |
| 9 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 10 | Why might it be claimed that of all the criticisms of the CAPM , only that of Roll constitutes a serious theoretical attack ? |
| 11 | perhaps another of drawing and that and then we 've got to erm get pyjamas on |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean there 's so much of money coming in the house every week |
| 14 | IT IS encouraging to note that , in an era when so much of sport is packaged , marketed , and subjected to outrageous hype , before being offered to the public , the Grand National and the Boat Race continue to attract nationwide attention . |
| 15 | Mr Major will thereby be able to compete with his fellow ministers for Government funds for so much of sport which requires assistance . |
| 16 | However , it 's always nice to be asked , and since so much of life consists of filling in that essentially dull period between waking up and going to sleep , it 's quite exciting to be wooed in the form of a tempting jaunt-ette to parts foreign . |
| 17 | Grief : so much of life , its relationships and its creative opportunities are damaged or lost in the course of addictive disease that grief is universally a major factor in early recovery and also a major risk in the possibility of return to the substance or process of addiction . |
| 18 | In part it is because training is in-service and little emphasized and also because so much of government is secret , information being deliberately kept from Parliament and the public . |
| 19 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 20 | We spent a day on the headland of Dun which reminds me so much of Mykinesholmur in the Faroes . |
| 21 | It may be , secondly , that the era of ‘ flexible accumulation ’ takes the form , not so much of sub-contracting between small firms within manufacturing , but rather of more work put out to service sector firms . |
| 22 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just that one has so much of importance on one 's mind just now . ’ |
| 24 | Focusing on effectiveness and outcomes as a basis for decisions on rationing is a desirable aim that can not be achieved at present when so much of health care is unevaluated . |
| 25 | Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools . |
| 26 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 27 | He rightly emphasises the overseas Chinese , who do indeed get everywhere , be it Jakarta or Lima , and the Confucianism which underlies so much of East Asia 's economic success . |
| 28 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 29 | Since so much of house is pure beats , why not buy your funk in skeletal form too ? |
| 30 | This is merely a variant of our friend the stress concentration which governs so much of engineering and materials science . |