Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sea twists and clumps of phosphorescence marked the minds of other psykers . |
| 2 | Robert Jordan 's fantasy series The Wheel Of Time has a growing band of fans , who will enjoy his latest , THE DRAGON REBORN ( Orbit £5.99 ) . |
| 3 | Under the system of fixed exchange rates any export of capital affected the reserve position though precisely how depended on the manner in which the investment was financed . |
| 4 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 5 | So , if an actress and a doctor are having coffee , say , the processor may use the different stereotypical activities associated with these sorts of character to specify a contrast between them . |
| 6 | OFI ( UK ) the trade association of course condemns the practice of abandonment of stock , and does not approve of the products sold by ‘ Aquario ’ , and the claims made for them . ’ |
| 7 | Thus , if team 3 , thinking of beef adds an e they have completed a word — bee — and lose a point ; but only if another team spots it and challenges them . |
| 8 | Create this easy-to-make blind by cutting an oblong of fabric to fit the window and hemming all its edges . |
| 9 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 10 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 11 | It would require a great deal of leadership to manage the party . ’ |
| 12 | Also it can not be left inside the premises each night without a good deal of work to rearrange the production floor to accommodate it . |
| 13 | It makes a great deal of sense to include a reference on all business letters . |
| 14 | A great deal of confusion surrounds the use of the daggerboard . |
| 15 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 16 | Just prior to this I was under a great deal of pressure to complete a computer program , and went in to work while I was suffering from the flu and not sleeping very well . |
| 17 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 18 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 19 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 20 | Scottish women have spent a great deal of time discussing the pros and cons of being an older women , but what 's it like being young in Scotland in nineteen ninety two ? |
| 21 | It takes a great deal of time to embroider a sampler in silks or wools , but it is a much swifter process when using pressed flowers . |
| 22 | I could spend a great deal of time extolling the history of the two countries . |
| 23 | Most of these in themselves do not have a great deal of interest to offer the tourist . |
| 24 | As James graphically put it , in every moral decision ‘ some part of the ideal is butchered ’ It does not require a great deal of insight to appreciate the significance of James 's theory for the judicial process . |
| 25 | I am a 40-year-old male , childless by choice , already paying a great deal of tax to satisfy the needs of women and children . |
| 26 | Other factors which influence the perception of risk include the degree of trust in the organisation ; familiarity and understanding of the technology ; the extent of involvement in the decision making process ; whether it is believed that more could be done to reduce risk ; comparisons with accepted risks ; and — last but not least — the fairness in the distribution of the risks and benefits . |
| 27 | You can use the magic item Orb of Thunder to darken the skies and spoil high level flight altogether , but you ca n't count on this working . |
| 28 | Enough premalignant cells are present in the bulk of stool to permit the analysis of tumour suppressor gene mutations by this technique . |
| 29 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 30 | Do methods of communication play a part in the creation of this desirable environment ? |