Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] of [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's easy ; my affections have been rejected by the one I love and her carnality is being most thoroughly investigated by my elder and smarter brother on a more or less hourly basis , so I am spurned and she is spermed ; my father believes his children should be free to make up their own minds , but preferably only out of the spare-parts that he provides … |
| 2 | But men are not in the hands of blind fate , for karma speaks not only of the actions and thoughts of the past as explaining a man 's present condition or character , but also as creative of the future . |
| 3 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 4 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 5 | To the south lay a country whose king was trying to establish an English Catholic church , in the teeth not only of the papists but also of those who were much more convinced Protestants . |
| 6 | This is an invaluable new reference book , listing the serial numbers , by squadron , not only of the fighters and bombers of 1940 , but of such lesser favourites as the Lerwick and Botha , for example . |
| 7 | With country house gardens , it is important to remember that the grounds consist not only of the lawns and terraces immediately round the house , but also large walled gardens and extensive woodland walks and shrubberies . |
| 8 | A relatively new concept in international law , this involves the guilt not merely of the rulers and agents of a state but of the state itself . |
| 9 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 10 | For example , she takes the Nicaean expression of belief as literally true , speaking not simply of the Logos but of Jesus ( sic ) becoming incarnate . |
| 11 | One of the issues to be resolved between the vendor and purchaser is the question of whether the purchaser is willing to take over either of the debtors or creditors of the business or whether one or both of these will remain with the vendor after completion of the sale . |
| 12 | The system should enable offenders with mental disorder to move quickly out of the courts and prison system to the most appropriate place for treatment , but in reality the system moves grudgingly slowly and in some parts is at a virtual standstill , leaving disturbed people in restrictive , unsuitable environments which are almost guaranteed to worsen their condition . |
| 13 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 14 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 15 | I leaned against her wall and gasped for air , and my arms and legs felt like lead weights , like when you climb up out of the baths and all the water 's draining off you . |
| 16 | The old familiar image of that desperately clutching hand , rising up out of the waves and then sinking again for ever , created itself in her mind 's eye . |
| 17 | Eventually we were taken up out of the cells and charged . |
| 18 | She brought her right hand up out of the bedclothes and held it out to him . |
| 19 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 20 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 21 | Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ . |
| 22 | Herons abounded on the desert bank , rising awkwardly out of the reeds as we approached and flapping heavily away . |
| 23 | Harry King , the winner , was an established athlete , fast out of the blocks and with a very good technique . |
| 24 | He crossed the road well ahead of the militiamen and rode into the encampment where the wedding was still being celebrated . |
| 25 | Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record . |
| 26 | Social racism , which is a form of chauvinistic nationalism or tribalism , exists quite independently of the geneticists and biologists for whom alone the term race has some residual scientific validity . |
| 27 | The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup . |