Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 2 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 3 | The London Borough of Lambeth says its SSD could do nothing to prevent the death of a 15-year-old girl on her return from Ireland . |
| 4 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 5 | The homicides and postmortems in the book permit the new religion of science to exercise its power : but they also occasion the necrophile broodings which exude from Dyer . |
| 6 | Says singer Michael Stipe : ‘ The very weird religion of celebrity scares me . |
| 7 | A modest , though steady , export of hides reached its peak , for the reign of Henry VIII , with just over twenty lasts ( each of twenty dickers ) in 1528 — 29 , tapering to a minimum of sixteen dickers ten years later . |
| 8 | Marital strife , early , abnormal or unwanted pregnancies , anxiety , depression or drug dependency can compound the risks of parents abusing their children . |
| 9 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 10 | Those sorts of things inspired me , and the reason those records sound like they do is because they used that equipment . |
| 11 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 12 | He really did all sorts of things to help us , and we never said please or thank you and now he 's dead . ’ |
| 13 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 14 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | And when the senses of sight and sound are combined , it is usually necessary for the sound engineer to go through all sorts of contortions to make his recordings without upsetting the picture-recording process . |
| 16 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 17 | The advocates of massive aid hint at all sorts of threats facing us if we do not hurry to the rescue , but are the dangers from a collapsing state greater than what could be expected from a revitalised Russia ? |
| 18 | He said there had also been no difficulties with the inadmissibility of computer evidence because the council used other sorts of documents to prove its cases . |
| 19 | These sorts of activities take their toll on the world immediately around us . |
| 20 | What sorts of factors constrain me to do so ? |
| 21 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 22 | Spinoza holds that the more we understand why we have these impulses , as also why certain sorts of thought overwhelm us with depression , the more we will get on top of them . |
| 23 | Wainfleet went on as the drinks arrived : ‘ All sorts of folk have their reasons for wanting other people 's private business , or their own , published . |
| 24 | I it seems to be functional , so you know you get like lawyers and farmers and all sorts of people using it . |
| 25 | By lodging your slides and information with us , you enable all sorts of people to view them . |
| 26 | All sorts of people owe him favours , you 'd be surprised . |
| 27 | All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything . |
| 28 | All sorts of people play it : students , businessman a lot of jugglers too . |
| 29 | Therapist : ‘ What sorts of stresses have you been under recently ? |
| 30 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |