Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 2 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 3 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 4 | All around the lake are similarly charming villages , easily reached by the regular ferry service that operates out of the bustling little harbour . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 6 | But it must be said that , even with the best garden centres , the range of herbs is not great , and consists mostly of the culinary type . |
| 7 | Denice decides it 's ‘ cute ’ and speaks enthusiastically of the dimmed lighting . |
| 8 | Cosmos has been losing market share and falls out of the top four companies in 1986 as British Air Tours takes over ( Table 11.3 ) . |
| 9 | She clerks patients , organises and attends ward rounds , requests investigations , draws up theatre lists , liaises with anaesthetic and nursing staff and general practitioners , helps in theatre , and does all of the other tasks undertaken by the medical house officers on the other firms at the hospital . |
| 10 | The fuse at the input to the switching circuit , rated at 10A , provides some protection , but fuses even of the fast-blow sort sometimes prove too slow to prevent damage to semiconductor devices . |