Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 2 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 3 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |
| 4 | This encompasses the design of passenger seats and the methods of body restraint with seat belts , the establishment of the forces they are designed to withstand and even the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the aircraft . |
| 5 | Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view . |
| 6 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 7 | But according to Mary White from the Emigrant Advice Unit in Hamill Street , Belfast a worrying percentage still leave here with no job , no contacts , no place to stay and absolutely no idea of just how hard life in the big city can be . |
| 8 | Bash Brannigan , manager of the Dunston Fund , formed the view that dividends on equities were about to rise and so the excess of the no-arbitrage price of an index future ( F ) over the spot price of the shares in the index ( S ) would reduce , that is , the basis will narrow . |