Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Health Department spokesman said : ‘ The 1992/3 allocation of £181 million specifically for Aids services is £44 million more than 1991/2 . |
| 2 | Studies advisers will be pleased to provide students with information about the range of support available e.g. Student Services , Chaplaincy , Careers Advisory Service and , if requested , will make arrangements for students to seek specialist advice or help ; |
| 3 | Additional measures included cuts of $11,900 million over five years in farm commodity programmes , and reductions of $3,700 million over five years in veterans ' benefits . |
| 4 | Could a turkey with a sell-by date of Dec 27 really be off by Dec 25 ? |
| 5 | The running of Cuisine 2000 furthermore quickly proved very costly . |
| 6 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 7 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 8 | The ruling was described by Le Monde of March 5 as representing as serious setback for the conservative government of Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 9 | During the remainder of the month there were frequent outbreaks of violence ; during the night of March 23-24 alone , 17 people were reported to have been killed . |
| 10 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 11 | Komplektov , a veteran diplomat specializing in US affairs and a Deputy Foreign Minister since 1982 , was described by the Washington Post of March 20 as more conservative than Bessmertnykh , his predecessor in the post . |
| 12 | By comparison with the high levels of contacts prevailing generally between Warsaw Pact military élites , the closeness of ties between the LWP and the Soviet Armed Forces has been impressive . |
| 13 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 14 | And they quote those precedences as a justification for what they 're doing and of course that then , then the whole kind of compulsive repetition thing becomes very very conscious because now people are saying you know , we 're doing this er because of historical precedence , because of erm and tradition . |
| 15 | It 's quite clear of course that though Diodati may belong to the first class , Milton belongs to the second . |
| 16 | The following advice is for those working in a group ( the above is of course applicable also for groups ) : |
| 17 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 18 | And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | Of course these too can be criticized on the grounds that they lack precision , and carry with them built-in biases , impeding both our understanding of our own field experience as well as obstructing cross-cultural understanding . |
| 20 | The civil year was divided into three conventional ‘ seasons ’ — called time of inundation , sowing time , and harvest time — and each of them was divided into four months , these being of course conventional too and not connected with the moon . |
| 21 | In nearly all cases , you 'll find you pay less if you reserve your car in advance and , of course this also saves you any worry as availability is guaranteed . |
| 22 | There are of course some deliberately emphasized exceptions : destitution , like that depicted in Alton Locke and Mary Barton , precludes decency ; moral turpitude may have the same effect , as in the case of Mrs Brown in Dombey and Son — ‘ In an ugly and dark room , an old woman , ugly and dark too ’ . |
| 23 | I am sure that you will have felt indeed did the diocese of Middlesbrough proud too ’ . |
| 24 | Nigger pulled out a wad of notes large enough to choke a horse , gave Knocker a pound note , and told him to keep the change . |
| 25 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 26 | number of fonts available simultaneously ? |
| 27 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 28 | ‘ I could have a couple of hours free tomorrow . |
| 29 | You two could buy a pint of milk each today I think . |
| 30 | There is typically a row of icons onscreen instead of a menu of named functions . |