Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 2 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 3 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 4 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 5 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 6 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 7 | The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times . |
| 8 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 9 | The surroundings were wholly out of keeping with the importance of the people there and the nature of their task . |
| 10 | I 'd hate anyone to think that I did well out of dealing with the problem page . |
| 11 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 12 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |
| 13 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |