Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 2 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 3 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 4 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 5 | Only when the front of the slug passes out of the far end of the pipe does the fraction of the pipe length in laminar motion increase . |
| 6 | It seems likely that access to signing in school prompts the development among children of a ‘ natural ’ sign language which forms the language code , and that this occurs independently of the visual mixture offered by teachers . |
| 7 | This callous view of suffering which smacks strongly of the protestant ethic ( epitomized in the complacent exhortation : God helps those who help themselves ) has a very familiar ring and is clearly seen today in the attitudes towards the mentally ill held by all but the most enlightened members of western societies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are pebbles under the feet of Aphrodite 's helpers on the Ludovisi throne ( fig. 83 ) ; and one thinks also of the pebbled floor of the tomb on the Sotades Painter 's cup ( fig. 114 ) , where the ambiguities of time are likewise reminiscent of the Troy . |
| 10 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 11 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 12 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 13 | When a rampant piano breaks out of the ecstatic trance midway through we 're two-nil up before the record 's even half way through and , with the arrival of a melancholy eastern vocal further up the touchline , it 's turning into a whitewash . |
| 14 | As the gas leaks out of the coiled chamber it picks up water and forms a mist around the singer 's head . |
| 15 | The actual rate of inflation stays ahead of the expected rate by a constant margin which , for as long as the unemployment rate is held at U 1 , will never be closed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the United States work is being done on a vaccine which consists only of the outer covering of the virus particle and so avoids the dangers of using the virus 's nucleic acid core . |
| 18 | A report appears inside of the Bioplan planning inquiry . |
| 19 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 20 | Castle Coch , a folly built on the site of a 13th century ruin by the Marquess of Bute , rises out of the wooded background . |
| 21 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 22 | If one partner opts out of the physical caring , decision-making and adolescent crises at the expense of the other , a load of resentment and dissatisfaction soon builds up . |
| 23 | The pre-pubescent shrieks suddenly reach a crescendo as the chugging electronic beat of the opening bars of ‘ The Locomotion ’ blasts out of the vast sound system . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although there is no exemption for a contract which consists exclusively of the international supply of services , a mixed contract ( eg supply and installation , or supply and supervision of installation , of plant abroad ) will come under s 26 . |
| 26 | 's bank in Catford was just one of 's targets , we do not know exactly how he managed to penetrate their security , but he was undoubtedly helped by the fact that his main business is debt collecting , and he numbers most of the big banks among his clients . |
| 27 | Denice decides it 's ‘ cute ’ and speaks enthusiastically of the dimmed lighting . |
| 28 | ‘ For example , the beautiful Nocturne at the end of Act 1 only makes it impression if it emerges out of the preceding dialogue , which gradually bridges the mood from Bénédict 's very energetic aria to the reflective conversation between two women . |
| 29 | The wording of the concession would seem to suggest that if the husband moves out of the matrimonial home and makes no election that his new home is his main residence then he need do nothing further , since on any subsequent transfer of the former matrimonial home to his former wife the principal private dwelling house exemption will be available ( provided she has continued to live there ) . |
| 30 | He 'll stand against Mrs Thatcher for the Tory leadership next month unless somebody else ( Stalkinghorse 2 ; a medium rare slice of rump ) slips out of the deep freeze paddock . |