Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb base] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er the likes of that See that mahogany band round there . |
| 2 | Pennington believes that the style and content of some preclude any other authorship . |
| 3 | He could not deny her the comfort of this lie any more than he could deny her a piece of bread if she were starving . |
| 4 | Q : Does any of this have any nutritional value ? |
| 5 | A fairly narrow range of people are responsible for key decisions ; some of these attain such positions through democratic representational procedures , but they co-opt others to their ranks . |
| 6 | Ah might have to get one of these get more room . |
| 7 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 8 | But even many of these have some interesting hues , at least to our human sight , though just what other creatures perceive of their own or other species is not so easily understood . |
| 9 | However , only around half of these provide any useful information , according to an analysis by Company Reporting , an industrial monitoring service . |
| 10 | All three of these involve some technique by which after hearing each of the adjectives the subject decides whether the target person appears positive or negative in his/her favour and by what degree . |
| 11 | Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales . |
| 12 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 13 | Can I first of all nail this health thing because er , near the start Anne said that th th , the court is still our , opinion is still divided on just how bad for you , for instance , passive smoking is . |
| 14 | So we have to er set out our stall there to form , first of all identify those target P L C's which we really did want to get close to . |
| 15 | WHEN ASKED TO list the greatest fashion guru of all time most people would go for some foreign Johnnie with a ludicrous name . |
| 16 | Discussing infectious diseases on an international scale , Rogers ( 1987 ) quotes the UNICEF State of the World 's Children Report ( 1987 ) which indicates that 3.5 million children under the age of 5 die each year from preventable childhood diseases and a further 3.5 million are disabled , mainly in the developing world . |
| 17 | The feeble achievements of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) and the Group of 77 confirm this in the political sphere . |
| 18 | And the other group of ten have another ten pounds , and so you 'd get , each group of ten would have one pound shared out between the ten of you . |
| 19 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
| 20 | On I T V , I make , I make the erm soup sort of peppery have some |
| 21 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 22 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 23 | Teams of four travel many miles for matches and visiting other clubs is one of the pleasures of playing the game , said Mr Waterfield , whose wife , Hattie , is a teacher at Conyers School , Yarm . |
| 24 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 25 | Chronic shortages of both cause most of the congestion and delays that reduce the quality of air travel . |