Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins .
2 In each case Hilts exercises his considerable journalistic skill to fill in different parts of the picture of a personality in a flowing , attractive , if rather thin , prose style .
3 Water seeps down through the limestone , carrying along tiny deposits of the rock it 's washing away .
4 She watched her throat move as if swallowing , and realised that Estelle was gulping down great mouthfuls of the liquid .
5 In terms of the law , the Secretary of State is empowered to lay down all aspects of the curriculum , except for the time devoted to each subject and the style in which it shall be taught .
6 The easiest way to avoid localized wear and tear is to occasionally move or turn the rug so that the normal pattern of traffic is taken over different parts of the pile .
7 It has been a radical step for the Government to hand over large parts of the policies which , until now , have been centrally determined .
8 It also took over all aspects of the duty solicitor scheme .
9 A strong smell of coffee emanating from the basement reminded her that Mrs Crouching , her landlady , was having one of her monthly ‘ evenings ’ — mild social occasions when she and her friends met to talk over important topics of the day .
10 The late Charles Mowat took over 2,500 photographs of the railway scene between 1924 and 1969 , also a few taken between 1900 and 1924 , mainly of smaller and medium-sized stations and branch lines , including twelve scenes on the Bishop 's Castle Railway .
11 The IDB and ITB will be taking over several floors of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Chicago .
12 The Croaking Gourami 's noise is produced by the musculature of the pectoral fins passing over other parts of the fish 's skeleton — and is audible because of the labyrinth organ acts as a kind of sound chamber .
13 Furthermore , if Newco is taking over certain liabilities of the business , these may need to be novated and there may be a substantial amount of conveyancing of freehold and leasehold properties to Newco .
14 However , controversy continued to rage over certain aspects of the remand decision-making process .
15 The quality of the paper is partially dictated by the fact that it must be suitable for the various duplication processes used to run off large numbers of the release .
16 As reported exclusively in Angler 's Mail , Kent-based Ashford AS gave up 12 miles of the canal after 88 years tenancy because of a long-running row with the National Rivers Authority 's Southern region .
17 But , rather than turning up old issues of the journal to check your design for a digital filter , why not have all the articles collected together in one book , Interfacing with C ?
18 That , sort of , it 's got the , it 's one of those sort of days I think when you 've got lots of cloud about broken clouds , so every now and again the sun will come through and light up different areas of the picture .
19 Current records managers and archivists must not allow the limits of their imagination to constrain the kinds of information they preserve because historians may wish to tap a wide range of possible sources to build up different views of the past .
20 You may want to light up different parts of the garden at different times of the year as different plants and shrubs come into flower .
21 At the same time , the forest path and road lights were switched on and lit up vast tracts of the Heide .
22 They took up opposite sides of the room , approaching the concealing curtain with extreme caution , the stubby barrels of the Uzi submachine gun ready to blast anything that leapt forward .
23 This uses synthetic-aperture radar , which exploits the fact that the radar is moving to build up three-dimensional images of the terrain below .
24 They are found at various points on plants , including fruits as on those of Crescentia spp. and in 15 other genera of Bignoniaceae , and the nectar may make up substantial parts of the ant diet as in the case of the extrafloral nectar of Caularthron bilamellatum ( Orchidaceae ) of Central America , which comprises up to 48% of the associated ants ' diet at some times of the year .
25 SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns .
26 5.17.2 to give up all keys of the Premises to the Landlord and
27 He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve .
28 The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed .
29 ‘ Critics always prefer the things that are not pop , ’ says Susanna , summing up 25 years of the music press in nine words .
30 Salaries of the many scientists , support staff and engineers and the overheads all inflate , using up increasing amounts of the money even before any experiments begin , so real research dollars in 1989 were probably less than one half of what they were five years earlier .
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