Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l
2 It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden .
3 Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building .
4 And of course , our discussion of ministry i.e. the activity of the people of God is not just a domestic thing about the URC .
5 Now he says er , what is this now , and of course immediately the president says , well you know happens er Mr , can we says you 've read it before , you see ?
6 And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say .
7 Of course even the phyla themselves originated from unknown ancestors , and they all ultimately derived from the first living cell .
8 Well of course even the product is product .
9 For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion .
10 The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather .
11 Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small .
12 When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future .
13 It is of course only a question of time and evolution .
14 When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives .
15 Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’
16 Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems .
17 A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice .
18 Until these fields were enclosed by private agreement or by act of parliament hardly a building was erected beyond the nucleus of the settlement , for every piece of land was precious .
19 The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world .
20 In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system .
21 Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ .
22 It was hard to stop the sudden rush of emotion just the mention of his name could provoke , but she did her best .
23 A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else .
24 It was stipulated that there was to be 23 hundred pounds to the " Tunn " and five score and twelve pounds to the hundred … " the bank to be made clear of ore Twice every year at least a week before ye 29th Sept and ye 1st day of May … "
25 In constructing a scheme of work then the selection of content must be closely related to a judgement on the depth of coverage to be attempted .
26 Formerly , the system of sub-sub-delegation of authorization ( from Parliament to the Secretary of State to SIB to SRO 's and RPB 's ) hinged on what was known as the principle of equivalence ie. the principle that the rules and codes of an SRO or RPB should afford investors protection at least equivalent to that provided by the SIB 's rules ( see Schedule 2 para 3 FSA 1986 before the new changes were introduced ) .
27 Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week .
28 To be honest , ’ she added , ‘ I find your swings of mood rather a pain .
29 Bicycles can be hired free of charge once a week and tennis is free for 1 hour per week .
30 A form of harmony therefore no doubt exists as the animals , fixed to one spot , have learned to make best use of their environment to carve their own small niches in exploiting the possibilities of their habitat to the full .
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