Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 2 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 3 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 4 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 5 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 6 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 7 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 8 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 9 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 10 | At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners . |
| 11 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 12 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 13 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 14 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 15 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 16 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 17 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 18 | By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him . |
| 19 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 20 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 21 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 22 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 23 | Breathing deeply and evenly , he jogged steadily along through the rustling darkness of the forest , enjoying the exertion and allowing the exercise to wash away the pressures of the past night . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 25 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 26 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 27 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 28 | Oswaldo Fernandez , was sworn in as the new Director of the National Police Force on Oct. 30 , replacing Gonzalo Menendez Franco who had resigned on Oct. 25 following accusations that he had meddled in politics . |
| 29 | Robert Wharton F was formally sworn in as the new President of the CIOB at the Institute 's Annual General Meeting on June 30 at its headquarters building in Englemere , Ascot . |
| 30 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |