Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G thereby got hold of the barley , disposed of it and absconded . |
| 2 | Kings themselves rarely travelled south of the Loire . |
| 3 | in the City of Nottingham and eventually became Chairman of the Licensing Bench . |
| 4 | The other MP nominated to the Committee , who eventually became President of the Institute , was William Tite ( 1798–1873 ) . |
| 5 | Thus , for the purposes of the first three categories , sexual intercourse is defined gender neutrally to include penetration of the vagina or anus by any part of the body or by an object , introduction of the penis into the mouth and cunnilingus as well as the continuation of any such intercourse . |
| 6 | To a first approximation it is also possible to write thereby allowing use of the data from either type of measurement to characterize the sample . |
| 7 | It is difficult to take that seriously from someone whose party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the trade union movement . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , dear — you poor old hag ! ’ her friend murmured sardonically , grinning as she deftly caught hold of the cushion Laura had sent flying across the room towards her . |
| 9 | Even so , some residents had started to venture out to local pubs and shops and were slowly becoming part of the community . |
| 10 | But they are most unlikely to do so — and herein lies part of the explanation for Labour 's election defeat , and one of its greatest problems for the future . |
| 11 | He retired in 1982 in some frustration with the civil service before eventually becoming director-general of the Institute of Directors . |
| 12 | From the widely reported experience of the Victoria Press in London ( which survived into the 1880s , though Emily Faithfull had moved on by then ) and the lesser known and less successful Caledonian Press in Edinburgh , what provisional conclusions can usefully be drawn ? |
| 13 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , in his criticism of subcultural theory Matza favoured a return to the less deterministic , less differentiated view of the criminal that was characteristic of classical criminology though , in his later work ( Matza , 1969 ) he moved to a more fully indeterminist view . |
| 14 | She stopped , suddenly catching sight of the notes in the saucer . |
| 15 | Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures . |
| 16 | ( If you are only using part of the bean mix at one time , the remainder will keep , covered , for 2–3 days in the refrigerator . ) |
| 17 | But promoting an understanding of the benefits of large-scale development of nuclear power is not enough to assure acceptance of the siting of a nuclear power station at a particular place . |
| 18 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
| 19 | So make use of the seminar time . |
| 20 | We can therefore see such a plasmid as a temporary alliance between genes which induce conjugation in the host bacterium ( and so make transmission of the plasmid itself possible ) , and genes which help the host to survive and multi ply . |
| 21 | Like every illustration , of course , it only goes part of the way in satisfying our minds . |
| 22 | It 's easy to extend the walk by , instead of cutting down to go south-west of the Water of Trool , heading east to the western end of Loch Trool . |
| 23 | The economy was improving , and evidence of increased confidence within L&SE can be found in 1983 in the eventual introduction of electric one-person-operated trains between Moorgate , St Pancras and Bedford ; the opening of no less than four new stations ; and government approval for the long awaited electrification of the Tonbridge-Hastings line . |
| 24 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 25 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
| 26 | ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker . |
| 27 | She is on the Speaker 's panel of chairmen for Commons committees , so has experience of the chair . |
| 28 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 29 | A more oblique approach , a project of the elder James Stephen , was to create a central registry of slaves intended not only to provide evidence of the extent to which the anti-slave trade legislation was being evaded , but to illuminate the demographic trends within the slave population and indirectly the conditions and treatment of the bondsmen . |
| 30 | Indeed , real values of these variables only cover part of the interaction region as will be clarified later . |