Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material is continually arriving deep within the mass of dead-looking rock , however , and the pressure of this imperceptibly forces up spines of solid lava which rise in jagged battlements along the crest of the dome . |
| 2 | The name remains a legend and mention Bugatti still conjures up moments of sheer magic in those inter-war years on the racing circuits . |
| 3 | The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’ |
| 4 | TO THOSE of us born and bred away from the capital the mention of the name Nine Elms conjures up visions of leafy glades and the home counties . |
| 5 | It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano . |
| 6 | It rules out 85% of possible clashes and leaves the designer free to concentrate on the remaining 15% of cases . |
| 7 | It becomes oddly insulting , not only because it rules out appreciation of beautiful souls lurking behind plain faces , but also because the kind of admiration then given to the beautiful woman begins to assume that her equally lovely nature is sweet , kind , gentle and unselfish — an image of passive , yielding femininity . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to understand the client , ’ said which is why the firm also encourages quarterly meetings where future plans are discussed and the partner assigned to a new client takes along details of other services available which fit perceived needs . |
| 9 | Spring snow has a low-friction surface which opens up acres of gentle offpiste perhaps not steep enough to ski when powder-covered . |
| 10 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 11 | I hope Chairman that er David will listen to the arguments on this because like other members of his group he throws out closure of elderly persons homes , y'know we 've got ta do it , we 've got ta do it something about which he knows absolutely nothing and about which he 's completely wrong . |
| 12 | The main stack belches out clouds of black smoke . |
| 13 | The relativist often sets up standards of mutual understanding which are unrealistically high , and when we fail to reach them claims that understanding is impossible . |
| 14 | Guideline 7 , Management , discusses this in more detail and sets out examples of good practice . |
| 15 | The company now makes up 62% of total group turnover , and has increased net cash balances from £500,000 to £1.6m . |
| 16 | The automotive arm makes up 62% of overall group sales . |
| 17 | While the UK and US showed ‘ hesitant recoveries ’ — these countries generate 35% and 21% of total revenues respectively — continental Europe , which makes up 36% of overall sales , moved deeper into recession . |
| 18 | Turnover generated from Unix licences , he says , increased fourfold last year , and now makes up 20% of total revenues . |
| 19 | One recent estimate was that the private sector carries out 15% of elective surgery and 59% of abortions and provides 58% of long term care of the elderly and 7% of acute psychiatry . |
| 20 | Mis–perceptions tend to occur when an individual 's limited capacity to give attention to competing information under stress produces tunnel vision or when a preconceived diagnosis blocks out sources of inconsistent information . |
| 21 | To watch women comfort each other can be a deeply moving experience which rolls back centuries of shared experience of the burden of living . |
| 22 | One trip to Scotland brings back memories of helpful folk . |
| 23 | The substance of the book is a case study of the particular ways in which women 's employment is accommodated within the household and family or in which it brings about changes of various kinds , but its further aim is to explore the structural similarities between the experiences of industrialised India and Western Europe in respect of changing family forms and the position of women . |