Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 2 | The wheel of fortune has turned up trumps and offers you a handsome payola today . |
| 3 | Although the London Borough of Southwark agreed to maintain the level of funding to some of the projects for a short time after the demise of the I. L. E. A. , that support can no longer be guaranteed . |
| 4 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |
| 5 | And London Borough of Bromley have got a spare bowling green in I forget the name of the road but it 's in the Beckenham area which unless they 're doing work to any of the main bowling greens just lies fallow through the summer . |
| 6 | Social studies on the religiousness of adults have shown a very clear correlation between what they now believe and the spiritual environment of the home in which they were brought up . |
| 7 | No matter : for the bellezze of Sardinia had come to admire and be admired in a sea of high fashion , micro-skirts , cravats , and a rock group in blazers and ties . |
| 8 | Instead of assessing the feasibility of words combining to form a sentence and providing a syntactic representation for the result , a word grammar determines the feasibility of morphemes combining to create a word . |
| 9 | Instead of assessing the feasibility of words combining to form a sentence and providing a syntactic representation for the result , a word grammar determines the feasibility of morphemes combining to create a word . |
| 10 | All sorts of things got burnt when that car went over . |
| 11 | But of course , when she came back , all sorts of things began to happen , that 's by the way . |
| 12 | All sorts of things seemed to flood in , including the fact that I was not getting on with one of my attendants . |
| 13 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 14 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 15 | All sorts of things seem to have happened while you have been away this time . ’ |
| 16 | And , of course , all sorts of things do happen to us as we grow . |
| 17 | An an and you know those sorts of things have to go on . |
| 18 | All sorts of thoughts began to race through her mind . |
| 19 | ‘ It used to be really anarchic , but then all sorts of casuals started wearing in and yang on their hooded tops because it was trendy . ’ |
| 20 | This has been the subject of endless commentary within the economics profession since these sorts of trends have typified nearly all industrial and service sectors of capitalist economies ( and some socialist ones , it might be added ) . |
| 21 | These two sorts of women seemed to belong to different species , being sisters only under their knickers , whether these came from Janet Reger or the British Home Stores . |
| 22 | Now agricultural erm one of the reasons why agriculture has n't been included in the G A T T is because governments right from all sorts of countries have said hands up why agricultural policy , this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , right there 's no international dimension to it right , you ca n't come in here and t tell us that we 're erm disbanding these protectionist measures right . |
| 23 | Art is after all the subject of attention for both critic and historian , even though the functions and methods of the two sorts of writer have drawn apart . |
| 24 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 25 | ‘ There are all sorts of people trying to rob and cheat you , but you sound like a doctor , and you , young lady , could never get away with a crime . |
| 26 | What sorts of people tend to become politically active and who tend to remain relatively inert ? |
| 27 | His friend remarked that , ‘ All sorts of people get run in for motoring offences . |
| 28 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 29 | By August 1921 he was ‘ inundated by the press and all sorts of undesirables have offered things ’ . |
| 30 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |