Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 2 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 3 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
| 4 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 5 | This has led to intensive attempts to standardise costed " packages of care " which bring together considerations of outcome with workforce and workload planning . |
| 6 | Decisions on these matters ( whether taken by the parties , their legal advisors , or the Court ) involve critical value judgements , bearing in mind not only considerations of justice between the adults involved , but also the needs of the children . |
| 7 | 4 ) With both routine and ad hoc statistical analyses it is not only speed of presentation of information which counts but also — and more importantly — quality . |
| 8 | Alright so fear of loss of control . |
| 9 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 10 | general matters — eg effect of concentration on consumers and the development of technical progress . |
| 11 | Conversely , exposure of samples to the high vacuum within the XPS spectrometer may lead to surface alteration , especially loss of water from hydrated samples . |
| 12 | For example , in the Sahara the dunes are orientated slightly east of south in the north and then veer consistently in direction until they are orientated somewhat south of west in the southern Sahara , beyond which similar orientation is betrayed by the old fixed dunes ( Fig . |
| 13 | Provided breeding is selective , it is a most useful smallholder 's animal , giving perhaps 3,000kg of milk at more than 4 per cent butterfat and also providing good , small beef carcasses which are ideal for home freezers and small-scale catering . |
| 14 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 15 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |
| 16 | But I mean no I think I think it 's obviously sort of sort of reduced |
| 17 | Over the years I have done all kinds of work with horses , hay-making , spreading and harrowing manure and hauling coal down from the road on a sledge . |
| 18 | But when such rifts occur , they are not necessarily evidence of lack of love ; they are more often due to the temporary emotional instability of the mourners , and usually heal swiftly , family unity being restored as the grief is worked through . |
| 19 | Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer . |
| 20 | We 'd have our own generator too , only there 's not a big enough head of water to our spring . |
| 21 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 22 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 23 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 24 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 25 | That they did not was because they had achieved only conservation of energy in the sense that the amount released exceeded that contained in the mass of a muon . |
| 26 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 27 | Pour about two inches of this mixture into a shallow tray and submerge 50 or so lengths of reed at a time . |
| 28 | Only payments of cash of at least £600 fall within the scope of Gift Aid . |
| 29 | Outcomes are of importance : eg resurgence of interest in local history and traditions ( Ness Historical Society ) ; self-help ( youth group , horticultural group ) ; revival of ancient skills ( weaving ) ; use by schools of community organisations ' productions ; political awareness stimulated by local video-tape production in Gaelic on the subject of a local Army installation ; economic developments ; publications ; pre-school developments ( educational and social , and now linked with the pilot development of Open University materials for parents ) ; linguistic awareness ; social awareness , via merging of established roles , eg parent/ teacher , community worker/fellow horticulturalist , informal/vocational education . |
| 30 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |