Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 6 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 12 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 13 | Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off . |
| 14 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 15 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 16 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 17 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 18 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 19 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 20 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 21 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 22 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 23 | At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners . |
| 24 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 25 | The Otago CA , like other sporting bodies , was moved publicly to urge young men to enlist ( each man who did was kept on as a financial member of the association for the duration ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 28 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 29 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 30 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |