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 | Here 's Headley Feast with a run down today of the top football action . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Let's take this example which I showed you up here of the calcium-activated potassium channel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Golden Freeze cut out much of the early running but Waterloo Boy moved smoothly into the lead three out . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The market research exercise may be carried out independently of the actual site investigation . |