Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 2 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 3 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 4 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 5 | Although clearly one can sympathise with Lear one can not expect anything else of the two sisters when they are shown such a bad example of love from their father in his dealings with Cordelia . |
| 6 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 7 | Better , fit a true mains switch ( e.g. a cord switch on the primary side of the transformer ) and hope that people will use it instead of the on-off switch on the radio . |
| 8 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 9 | It was a timely realisation , and cured her instantly of the lingering dream state the drive had produced in her . |
| 10 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 11 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 12 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
| 13 | The smell reminded him vividly of the well-stocked library and quiet chancery of his novice days at Blackfriars . |
| 14 | He saw also Dutch things in the French heat , bridges not formally different from those in Delft and Leyden , colours in the glare that reminded him primarily of the soft blues and yellows of Vermeer . |
| 15 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 16 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 17 | bits and pieces but I need something else of the same size , you know |