Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , so it 's a nice to include that lovely bit of old machinery as well . |
| 2 | As it crosses each small tent of sky . |
| 3 | It is people who make things happen , it is people who bring that special ingredient of fun and fellowship . |
| 4 | He said : " she could still have altered that last part of what she foresaw . |
| 5 | And I like the colour of your dress — you ought to wear that particular shade of red more often . ’ |
| 6 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 7 | A recent report by stockbrokers UBS Phillips and Drew ( 1992 ) draws attention to this factor , suggesting that actual rates of depreciation of capital in the UK have been well in excess of official assumptions as to rates of depreciation , aided by an overvalued exchange rate . |
| 8 | There was still no acknowledgment from the castle , even when a wailing , sorry concourse was driven up in terror , children screaming , women sobbing , men beseeching , frantic as they were forced to penetrate that shouting ring of circling horsemen . |
| 9 | Employers in the main seem to see little direct relevance of education to specific job requirements . |
| 10 | Paperback of the autobiography reviewed WCM May ‘ 91 , with the chance missed to update to embrace that first taste of Test cricket . |
| 11 | Sell that young body of yours ? ’ |
| 12 | I was going to miss that magic moment of seeing air under the tyres for the first time . |
| 13 | The form of that life and the machinery by which it is prevented from supplanting the political power accepted by the populace , can be settled without strife only when the basis of the religion has been firmly established by men and women using that glorious power of reason which is life 's greatest gift . |
| 14 | ‘ Otherwise I 'd spend the evening wondering if you were using that particular form of persuasion on someone else . ’ |
| 15 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 16 | to see that ugly mug of yours again . ’ |
| 17 | It could be worth many , many thousands of pounds in conventional advertising and at the same time gain that vital reputation of doing everything right . |
| 18 | They wanted Mickey to lose that famous temper of his so they could legitimately nick him . |
| 19 | And I also thought that I had conquered that Greek half of me . |
| 20 | When teachers have received each final version of guidance and ministerial requirement then , despite the connections which will have been included in that guidance between a specific subject and a broader concern ( such as the encouragement of multicultural or anti-racist education ) , school managers will still be faced with a problem . |
| 21 | Or with anything which is vaguely connected with that I mean that just sort of a coverall term for it . |
| 22 | And do eat that other slice of bread . |
| 23 | He likes all the rubbish , all the fat and all the gristle and the bones , but he wo n't eat that lovely bit of meat in the middle |
| 24 | Better do it otherwise you 'll forget , gon na eat that little bit of cake or I 'll throw it away ? |
| 25 | Neither Pogo nor any other of her various escorts had ever aroused that same sensation of longing . |
| 26 | All you have to do now is , when the hour comes , turn out you pear terrine in Gewürztraminer jelly , slice across with a very sharp knife ( an electric carving knife , normally an abomination , is ideal ) , and lay each pristine slice of pale gold jelly and creamy pear on a plate . |
| 27 | Det Supt Keith Readman , in charge of the inquiry , said : ‘ I hope this increased reward will trigger that vital piece of information . |
| 28 | He came to realize that traditional accounts of science , whether inductivist or falsificationist , do not bear comparison with historical evidence . |
| 29 | Northumbria remained rich , politically stable and intellectually gifted enough under Aldfrith and his immediate successors to enable that creative synthesis of Celtic , Anglo-Saxon and Mediterranean art — which is so striking a feature of post-conversion Northumbrian civilization — to achieve its maximum expression in the renaissance of the late seventh and first half of the eighth centuries . |
| 30 | ‘ We got that little bit of luck that we 've been missing . |