Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ? |
| 2 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 3 | There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon 's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago . |
| 4 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 5 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 6 | You accuse these agencies of improper motives — such as using children as bait for donors — when you are guilty of the same shortcoming on your cover . |
| 7 | A second defendent , Anthony Gallagher found NOT guilty of the same charge and was fined three hundred pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 8 | As though unaware of the many doubts in the minds of each of his listeners , Christian went on to explain the reasons behind his momentous decision . |
| 9 | Pringle and Laverty are apparently unaware of the many family health services authorities that have set up approval procedures for employing counsellors in primary care . |
| 10 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 11 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 12 | This behaviour is typical of the several meals we have investigated using scintigraphic techniques , and shows that it represents a physiological relevant test meal . |
| 13 | It is possible that such errors however , are merely indicative of the same craftsman 's readjustments . |
| 14 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 15 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 16 | Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition . |
| 17 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 18 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 19 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 20 | The statements written by two of the women on the HITECC course cited above are illustrative of the latter claim . |
| 21 | It is no accident that many slums were built on marshes : Mosside in Manchester , the Bogside in Londonderry , and much of the East End of London , where the suffix ‘ ey ’ to many of the place-names tell us that they were islands in Saxon times : Hackney , Stepney , and , most notorious of all , Bermondsey , where , in the 1850s , the river Neckinger , ‘ the colour of strong green tea ’ , flowed round Jacob 's Island , which was used by Dickens as a setting for Oliver Twist , and was described by him as ‘ the filthiest , the strangest , the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London ’ . |
| 22 | Walter Plowden , before Theodore 's rise to power , had been sent to Abyssinia as Consul to negotiate a commercial treaty with the most powerful of the several Rases . |
| 23 | If he decides to ring us we 'll be short of a few answers . ’ |
| 24 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 25 | Former Premier LADY THATCHER will never be short of a few bob — she 's worth an estimated £9.5 million . |
| 26 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 27 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 28 | Ideally , this is the kind of love that should be the most important of the many elements which form the basis of human marriages . |
| 29 | One of the most important of the many articles manufactured in this shop are the steel carriage springs , each of which is submitted to a test quite as severe as that applied to the guns in Woolwich Arsenal , before it is sent out to administer to the comfort of the travelling public , the test chiefly consisting in the dropping of heavy weights upon the springs . |
| 30 | It had sat trembling in his hand , its brown eyes full of the same terror he saw now in Ann 's . |