Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of an answer to these may be found in the fact that a personal visit ( by the researchers ) to the areas where the black arrestees lived revealed that these were pockets of very poor houses in large wards of predominantly good class housing . |
| 2 | The film stars Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts and concerns a group of unlikely student doctors who take it in turns to have their heartbeat stopped in order to experience the afterlife , which for some reason the director has chosen to portray as a series of rather unimaginative music videos . |
| 3 | The purpose of the following sections is to explore the difficulties with reference to a number of rather awkward speaker variables , beginning with social class . |
| 4 | You know , I mean , these sorts of rather broad brush suggestions , er , a total of , I 'm not very good at arithmetic , something of two hundred and forty thousand pounds , those two , plus I think , an actual reduction in certainly two and three if not erm , remo removal . |
| 5 | Guest passes come in the form of rather fetching hospital wrist bands . |
| 6 | A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action . |
| 7 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 8 | But a lot of rather big business escapes , ’ says Dr John Hills of the London School of Economics . |
| 9 | Well , I 've trailed my coat , I 've said a whole lot of things in hopefully to intrigue you , to start you off , merely in terms of rather positive public relations , the media are good and they 're lovely and you ought to encourage them , and really , my message in the very first part is what I started off with . |
| 10 | The latest victims are Allan Ludman and Nicholas Coch , whose Physical Geology has a slight edge over its competitors in that it includes a series of rather handsome colour plates . |
| 11 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 12 | He gave an indistinct signal towards the sideboard and a bottle of rather sweeter pudding wine . |
| 13 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 14 | The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain . |
| 15 | That is one reason why Microsoft reckons Windows NT can clean up : on the screen , despite 4m lines of wholly new computer code , NT will appear just like friendly old pre-NT Windows . |
| 16 | In the UDC proposals land is seen as the basis of a kind of wholly autonomous service sector . |
| 17 | The major problem with the new reforms and the disappearance of publically accountable health authorities is who monitors the managers ? |
| 18 | The party has been the spearhead of what is essentially a protest movement against more than 40 years of mostly uninterrupted Congress domination of Indian politics . |
| 19 | The commitment to a learning theory which explained all crime clearly required the specification of empirically identifiable learning processes if it was to progress beyond the simple assertion that crime is learned . |
| 20 | Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems . |
| 21 | Sun machines and clones running Newsprint can now print off of widely used HP LaserJet and Canon printers complements of the LaserPrint 4100 SCSI interface card from San Jose , California-based Rastron Corporation : it also reportedly enhances output from the standard 300 x 300 dpi to 600 x 300 dpi . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Cadbury Committee reported that it ‘ places great emphasis on the importance of properly constituted audit committees in raising standards of corporate governance ’ , and recommends that all listed companies which have not already done so should establish effective audit committees by 1994 . |
| 23 | The formation of properly constituted county clubs , eventually leading to a county championship structure , has led Dr Midwinter to place these developments firmly in the context of the social changes then taking place . |
| 24 | The university Senate announced that the press 's primary objective should be ‘ the publication of commercially unremunerative research work ’ , a remit which its founding secretary , Archie Turnbull , jokingly paraphrased as ‘ losing money intelligently ’ . |
| 25 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
| 26 | Certainly the absence of commercially significant rain-forest fruits in the New World , compared with the Old , is because the primate fauna in the Old World has flavour preferences nearest to those of humans . |
| 27 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 28 | The government announced on Aug. 7 that it would implement the recommendations of the Mandal Commission and reserve 27 per cent of government and public-sector jobs for members of the " backward classes " ( a category referring to members of economically disadvantaged caste groups who were not considered " untouchables " ) . |
| 29 | Geoff , a quality assurance group leader at British Aerospace in Lostock near Bolton , explained : ‘ After a series of extremely expensive phone calls to the Society 's Chairman , Mr Joe Carroll , in Ireland , last month , I was so bitten by the bug I wanted to do everything I can to help from my armchair here in Wigan , so to speak . |
| 30 | Grisone and his Neopolitan School were extremely influential , and his style of ‘ horsemanship ’ and use of extremely cruel curb bits spread throughout Europe , and eventually to the Americas with the early settlers . |