Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the writing down of the poems of Homer and Hesiod that led scholars to ask , for the first time apparently : ‘ How far was the information about their gods and heroes literally true ? ’ . |
| 2 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 3 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 4 | Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 5 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 6 | After the opening up of the borders between East and West Germany in 1989 the project became much easier . |
| 7 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 8 | The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order . |
| 9 | The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition . |
| 10 | The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles . |
| 11 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 12 | A believer in market forces , she differs from Thatcher in her interventionism , and it is a safe bet that what the French euphemistically call ‘ positive actions ’ will be brought to bear to shake the best out of the likes of Thomson . |
| 13 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 14 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 15 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 16 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 17 | The change occurred because of internal political reasons and for that reason alone and not out of the interests of clients . |
| 18 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 19 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 20 | Thanks to the likes of Pam , Sam , Merlin and Sherlock the robot has worked its way off the shopfloor , out of the realms of science fiction and into hospitals and railway stations , and is about to find its way on to one or two motorway flyovers . |
| 21 | If one decides to give away £5m to encourage the arts , I do not think that it is a very sensible way to give it to my noble friend Lord Archer , who is a very rich man already , and who gets £6,000 a year out of the pockets of taxpayers who are very much poorer than he is . ’ |
| 22 | This child has a metal prosthesis and kicks hell out of the others at football . |
| 23 | Life is about to wriggle out of the arms of death itself . |
| 24 | Whoever became his successor was also given the possibility of sexual satisfaction , and was by that means offered a way out of the conditions of group psychology . |
| 25 | road and the line nearer to you is solid , you must not cross or straddle it , except when you need to get in and out of the premises on side road . |
| 26 | Finn 's hand , with a cigarette in it , poked out of the folds of clothing and tapped ash onto the floor . |
| 27 | Twin beds were a put-off ; a typically American idea straight out of the movies by way of the Hayes censorship office . |
| 28 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 29 | They were willing now to start drawing the water out of the bottoms of Charles Roe 's old workings i.e. below Deep Level random . |
| 30 | In the 1980s , what came out of the mouths of environmentalists was mostly green ; what went in , was often junk . |