Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gets political in its indictment of the corrupt railroad — it ‘ leaves two shiny , slimy tracks like a snail ’ — that is the representation of a rapaciously capitalist civilisation , and dares to traduce Fonda , Monument Valley and sundry rather icons of the Ford universe . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's most kind of you , sir . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 4 | Luckily Crispins of Curtain Road in London , my main veneer supplier , still had four leaves from the same bundle that I had purchased the original set from . |
| 5 | These books are timeless , not part of the changing whirl of food fashion or trend , rather part of a backbone of information and knowledge without which all cookery books are quite irrelevant . |
| 6 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's remarkably kind of you to put us up like this , and we 're both very grateful . ’ |
| 8 | It 's incredibly kind of you to meet us on the offchance . |
| 9 | So er right loads of you have been away , I 'm going to hand |
| 10 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 11 | Fortunately , although Johnny and Susan and Harbajahn and Khadijah are individual personalities with a myriad variety of individual differences , they are all recognizably part of the genus homo sapiens , whatever the embattled teacher may sometimes wonder . |
| 12 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |
| 13 | Eventually proposals of marriage are made and accepted , but during the ceremony — performed by Despina in disguise as the notary — military sounds are heard and the girls realize with horror that their original sweethearts are ‘ returning ’ . |
| 14 | In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production . |
| 15 | However , the first two arrangements have failed to materialise and the company is now effectively part of Agfa who introduced the product under its own Agfa Press label at the end of November . |
| 16 | Thus the compulsive relationship with physical exercise can become effectively part of the spectrum of eating disorder behaviour . |
| 17 | The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small . |
| 18 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 19 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 20 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 21 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 22 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 23 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 24 | The igneous complex is composed for the most part of very resistant rocks , and less erosion has taken place here than with the other rock types , so that this region contains some of the highest hills in the Outer Hebrides , such as Roneval , Bleaval and Chaipaval . |
| 25 | However , these are for the most part of very low quality and certainly can not meet the needs of the poorest sectors . |
| 26 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 27 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 28 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 29 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 30 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |