Example sentences of "of [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |
| 2 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |
| 3 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 4 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 5 | Much of the material has been lent by the Terra Foundation for the Arts and consists of ninety or so paintings by William Merrit Chase , William Leroy Metcalf , Frederick C. Frieseke , John Singer Sargent , Theodore Robinson , Childe Hassam , Mary Cassatt , Whistler and Winslow Homer . |
| 6 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 7 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |
| 8 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 9 | The dining-room , drawing-room , parlour and kitchen were all of good but reasonable size. , |
| 10 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 11 | Yet he appeared surprised to find in Kursk guberniia near the end of 1922 that even villages near to the Moscow railway line had received their last single copies some months earlier . |
| 12 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 13 | In the village of Dara , Rafiq is a legal businessman , one of 50 or so hashish traders operating side by side with the gun dealers . |
| 14 | They are just two of 50 or so formulae , charts and graphs available to teachers who wish to assess the difficulty of prose objectively ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a review ) . |
| 15 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 16 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 17 | In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity . |
| 18 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
| 19 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 20 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 21 | A king would not be an hereditary monarch , but would be elected from a small cohort of princely and chiefly families , in the ancient Irish manner . |
| 22 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 23 | Scrambling the whole of its release schedule of 15 or so films into a sublimely muddled montage of fast edits and visual ‘ high 's , it 's incomprehensible but hypnotic . |
| 24 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 25 | In a centre of twenty or so pupils with three or four teaching staff , heads have tremendous influence even where , as at the Victoria Centre , they espouse democratic principles . |
| 26 | Farmers can use it only to graze sheep , in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring . |
| 27 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 28 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 29 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 30 | The three 16-man Sections ( see Appendix 2 ) were deployed further down the hill each sending out patrols of four or so men to scout the surrounding countryside . |