Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [noun pl] of [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 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 3 | Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 4 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 11 | The change occurred because of internal political reasons and for that reason alone and not out of the interests of clients . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Life is about to wriggle out of the arms of death itself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Finn 's hand , with a cigarette in it , poked out of the folds of clothing and tapped ash onto the floor . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the 1980s , what came out of the mouths of environmentalists was mostly green ; what went in , was often junk . |
| 21 | Out of the mouths of babes : the Stephenson/Connolly tribe , Scarlett ( one ) , Amy ( two ) , Daisy ( five ) . |
| 22 | Out of the mouths of babes … comes many a minister 's comeuppance . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear , ’ she laughed , ‘ talk about out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ! |
| 24 | Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ! ’ |
| 25 | Out of the mouths of babes and suckers . |
| 26 | The distribution of titles , however , was very much in the interests of a king who was about to lead his nobility in war , and in any case the king intended to finance the war out of the proceeds of taxation rather than the income from royal estates . |
| 27 | When the property is sold , the amount of the debt is paid to the plaintiff out of the proceeds of sale . |
| 28 | In Forsinard Estates Ltd. v. Dykes [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 232 a mortgaged property in Scotland had been sold and an issue arose as to the costs which the mortgagee 's London solicitors were entitled to retain out of the proceeds of sale . |
| 29 | To the south is the endlessly fascinating sight of trains pulling in and out of the platforms of London Bridge station . |
| 30 | His successor , Majorian , apparently overthrew this arrangement , pushing the Burgundians out of the environs of Lyons in 458 . |