Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 2 | Following the winding up of the Political Prisoners Release Committee , Caughey became secretary of a small group called Irish Union , which , in its personnel , provided a link between the NICCL and the later Wolfe Tone Societies and NICRA . |
| 3 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 4 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 5 | And that was why , when Paula 's face swam out of the murky clouds and peered incuriously at him , Miles Engado screamed . |
| 6 | The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors . |
| 7 | Seoul silver medallist Christie left Canada 's Johnson — sensationally stripped of the gold and world record after being slung out of the 1988 Games after testing positive for steroid abuse — stumbling in his wake . |
| 8 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 9 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 10 | Further , it will document the experience of families as they moved out of the old tenements , often slums , into their new houses in the new schemes . |
| 11 | Scritti Politti also moved out of the shadowy margins and proposed a schizoid project — the making of perfect pop that contains its own internal deconstruction . |
| 12 | What was in fact happening , as the wizard knew , was that as the abused spirit of Bel-Shamharoth sank through the deeper chthonic planes his brooding spirit was being sucked out of the very stones into the region which , according to the discworld 's most reliable priests , was both under the ground and Somewhere Else . |
| 13 | Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them . |
| 14 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 15 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 16 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 17 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 18 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 19 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 20 | The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client . |
| 21 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 22 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements . |
| 24 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 25 | In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements : |
| 26 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 27 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 28 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 29 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 30 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |