Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ shelter ’ was a ridiculously inadequate affair , consisting only of a tubular metal frame with a narrow roof , thus allowing one to be squashed by the crowd packed into its small area , and soaked by the rain that swept in through its open sides . |
| 2 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 3 | Consumers are induced to behave as if they took account of the externality , though in fact they take account only of the after-tax price . |
| 4 | It passed and he looked upriver to where Mariana lay hidden upstream of the fallen treetrunk . |
| 5 | Unless your home is totally dilapidated , steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling : it will arouse suspicion . |
| 6 | Dying slowly of a broken heart ? ’ |
| 7 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 8 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 9 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 10 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 11 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 12 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 13 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 14 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 15 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 16 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 17 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 18 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 19 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 20 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 21 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 22 | There will be much worse to come if the German government decides , as it may , to pull out of the European Fighter Aircraft project on which Deutsche Aerospace was counting for future revenues . |
| 23 | Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project . |
| 24 | PHILIPS ‘ TO PULL OUT OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER BUSINESS ’ |
| 25 | The story seems to have been largely missed , but Philips Electronics NV is planning to pull out of the personal computer business as part of its latest restructuring , which will see 5,000 jobs go from its consumer electronics operations worldwide this year , Het Financieele Dagblad reported . |
| 26 | If the Japanese continue to pull out of the international bond markets they will deprive the global economy of much-needed capital . |
| 27 | Crosby reassured Byrne yesterday after the Republic of Ireland marksman was forced to pull out of the international squad with a calf injury that will sideline him for a fortnight . |
| 28 | Last night 's crucial Maastricht vote following the debate in the House of Commons meant Mr Gummer had to pull out of the Welsh farming conference organised by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society , the Welsh Agricultural College and Midland Bank . |
| 29 | The severity of the depression was highlighted this week by the decision of the Automobile Association to pull out of the retail package holiday market , creating 400 redundancies . |
| 30 | After completing three quarters of a loop the model is reluctant to pull out of the ensuing dive . |