Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | C.P.V.E. , T.V.E.I. , G.C.S.E. , A/S levels will lead to a breaking down of the traditional patterns of provision at 16+ . |
| 2 | And an ordinary lightning flash is simply the breaking down of the insulating properties of air which discharges a momentary electric current to those clouds . |
| 3 | The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client . |
| 4 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 5 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 6 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 7 | Leaving aside social legislation , the most important of these factors was the opening up of the grain-bearing areas of North America , refrigeration , and acceleration of maritime transport . |
| 8 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 9 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 10 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 11 | In fact , eighty per cent of what we throw away could have been used again : that means that , out of every five dustbins of " rubbish " , four contain valuable recyclable materials . |
| 12 | The basic pension is payable according to a contributions formula which stipulates that to gain a full pension , sufficient contributions have to be paid in nine out of every ten years of a ‘ working life ’ ( i.e. paid employment ) . |
| 13 | By 1980 in Argentina six out of every ten individuals of school age were incorporated in the educational system . |
| 14 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 15 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 16 | The whole afternoon was spent meandering in and out of the welcoming homes of Miss Kerr 's ageing contemporaries . |
| 17 | What of Juhel of Dol and his careful and simian plotting to keep his suffragans out of the grasping fingers of Tours ? |
| 18 | During a fortnight-long project , 6,000 volunteers found that 13 out of the 16 types of litter counted showed an increase on previous years . |
| 19 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 20 | Now you should be able to see that playing Pentatonic scales in thirds actually produces a situation where four out of the five notes of the scale produce perfect 4th intervals . |
| 21 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 22 | Their proclaimed wish to ‘ return to real work ’ is a contradiction , for it denies their own political scramblings to move out of the grinding realities of shift work . |
| 23 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |
| 24 | In the ant 's case , construction costs are further reduced by building the nest out of the living bodies of workers . |
| 25 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 26 | What is well documented is that any attempt to prepare enquiry and discovery activities based on the pupil 's own interests and starting points will most frequently and helpfully lead to thematic work , breaking out of the narrow specialisms of the traditional timetable . |
| 27 | The other is by being representative of the majority of actual bureaucrats , rather as the average reader of a newspaper like , say , The Times is simply a profile assembled out of the actual features of actual readers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The image is in Gandalf 's mind when he says to Théoden , ‘ There are children in your land who , out of the twisted threads of story , could pick the answer to your question . ’ |
| 30 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |