Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] 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 | So er right loads of you have been away , I 'm going to hand |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 6 | Eschewing undue optimism , and the constant pressure from the pincers precluded any such temptation , the White Paper irradiated a belief in the importance of scrutinizing the causes of crime , calmly and dispassionately , in order to ascertain more effectively methods of combating it . |
| 7 | Occupations , ethnic and religious groups , and most importantly styles of life are accorded differing degrees of prestige or esteem by members of society . |
| 8 | So he made these first three senior commissioning editor appointments , effectively heads of big departments , appointing two women and one man . |
| 9 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 10 | Only in warmer , damper regions have they a chance to acquire the organic debris — mostly fragments of algae , fungi , lichens and mosses — that allows them to develop further into humic soils ( Figure 3.6B-D ) . |
| 11 | Fats supply the most calories of all , very many more , weight for weight , than all other foods . |
| 12 | The remaining 16 occurrences are mostly combinations of at least two of the described problems . |
| 13 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |
| 14 | The first and foremost is natural selection ; individuals that are particularly well-adapted to their environment reproduce more than their fellows and so copies of their genes become more common . |
| 15 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 16 | On a number of occasions we can note that only coins of a relatively high denomination were minted and hence available for use . |
| 17 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 18 | From his own observations , and such scanty and often mendacious published sources as exist , he pieces together accounts of what seemed to be going on . |
| 19 | left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together . |
| 20 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 21 | Its consequences are hostility to the strong state and vanguard party and sympathy with pluralism and perhaps forms of anarchism . |
| 22 | Especially groups of people from the Church . |
| 23 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 24 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 25 | Cement is the term in common use for a powder which hardens when mixed with water and is used to bind together aggregates of gravel and stone to produce concrete . |
| 26 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 27 | ( e ) ( 33 ) Adverbs of time include not only adverbs of " time when " such as then , but adverbs of duration and frequency such as always . |
| 28 | Only restorations of Gaudi 's own work are officially sponsored ; but as long as people keep on giving , Mr Subirachs can keep working . |
| 29 | The talented crew of Voysey , Newton , Baillie Scott , who created the beautifully put together houses of that period , evidently also had the gift of persuasively selling their ideas . |
| 30 | There may , for instance , be a requirement to join together lecturers of a similar qualification or age group . |