Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 2 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 3 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 4 | They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight . |
| 5 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 6 | She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything . |
| 7 | The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow . |
| 8 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 9 | So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there . |
| 10 | Here 's Headley Feast with a run down today of the top football action . |
| 11 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 12 | A fifty-pound bomb , planted in his fishing boat , exploded as he set off out of the little harbour of Mullaghmore to inspect lobster pots . |
| 13 | Camille Aryeetey , buyer at WADE SMITH in Mathew Street , says Versace and Ozbek numbers are being snapped up regardless of the three-figure price tags . |
| 14 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 15 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 16 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 17 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 18 | The lead climber , Sedlmayer , caught sight of a possible bivouac ledge , and simultaneously a man 's face , looming up out of the icy fog . |
| 19 | As the snow even in the yard was more than boot-deep , they were thankful that their skirts and petticoats were pinned well up out of the wet snow . |
| 20 | But as the shaking continued she came up out of the bad dream , trembling and drenched once more with perspiration , her cheeks damp with tears . |
| 21 | As we threw things in the car , thick purple cloud was boiling up out of the hidden cauldron of the Sélé glacier and over the Ailefroide Occidentale . |
| 22 | Let's take this example which I showed you up here of the calcium-activated potassium channel . |
| 23 | Up ahead of the scout-masterish walker , who strode along wielding his shepherd 's crook , looking a quarter-century late for Aldermaston , a dilation came into being , a tear in the very air . |
| 24 | Golden Freeze cut out much of the early running but Waterloo Boy moved smoothly into the lead three out . |
| 25 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 26 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 27 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 28 | In turn , the SIB has recognised a number of self-regulating organisations ( SROs ) which carry out much of the day-to-day regulation of firms involved in investment business . |
| 29 | The market research exercise may be carried out independently of the actual site investigation . |
| 30 | Headley Feast with today 's round up of the national football . |