Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparently disposes of the toxic fumes much more safely . |
| 2 | It is now widely accepted in political science that democratic activity and representation not only consists of the electoral choice between parties and their programmes but in the contribution to policy making made by interest groups . |
| 3 | When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right . |
| 4 | However , much remains of the earlier Baroque building . |
| 5 | Witchcraft thus disposes of the thorny problem of the existence of evil . |
| 6 | It is striking that while Leapor writes amusingly , sometimes angrily , of intellectual constraints , she rarely complains of the physical rigours of domestic service . |
| 7 | This states that a pure compound always consists of the same elements combined in the same proportion by weight . |
| 8 | Jim Corbett tells just such a tale in his Man-Eaters of Kumaon , and since his lead-in to the episode also tells of the mental abilities of creatures other than man , it is worth quoting in full . |
| 9 | The figures were revealed in a major survey which also discovered that just one in 10 homes now consists of the traditional image of mum and dad and two children . |
| 10 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |
| 11 | Training in one of the many kung fu styles that exist today consists of the systematic learning and practice of pre-arranged sets known as forms . |
| 12 | Its criminal jurisdiction is , in the sixteenth century , vested in a set of commissioners welcome in practice to be invariably judges of the Common Law Courts . |
| 13 | It conventionally consists of the budgeted profit and loss account and balance sheet for the organization . |
| 14 | He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational . |
| 15 | Since then traces of the German past have been eradicated . |
| 16 | The Lamb , Buckland , Oxfordshire : its exterior charm remains ( left ) , but inside ( right ) little remains of the former interior . |
| 17 | This approach more than adequately disposes of the particular point at issue in the Pickin case but does not , as is hardly surprising , answer a number of questions which were not asked : |
| 18 | But Luke nowhere speaks of the new covenant unless Luke 22:19b and 20 are original ( against the main weight of manuscript attestation ) . |
| 19 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |