Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 2 | ‘ All dressed ready for your important engagement , I see , ’ he drawled , his eyes going once more over her bedroom attire , and , if that was n't enough to ignite sparks of fury in her , his mocking tone abruptly fell away as his glance went from her and to the hall — in which direction she knew he was aware there was at least one bedroom . |
| 3 | If historians only uncover images of disability in charity advertising and stories of helplessness or courage , with no alternatives , what will that mean for a future population of disabled people ? |
| 4 | There was a nicely judged degree of contempt in her voice , Loretta thought ; it implied that the speaker had quickly got Puddephat 's measure , and did n't intend to waste any more of her time on him . |
| 5 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 6 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 7 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 8 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 9 | This announcement comes only months after retirement from Midland Embalming Services and I have already heard stories of breakfast in bed and other luxuries associated with retirement ! |
| 10 | DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling . |
| 11 | Yes , well you just put volume of water in that one . |
| 12 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 13 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 14 | The best known aspect of sexism in English is what some feminists have called ‘ he/man ’ language , that is , the generic use of masculine pronouns and the term man ( kind ) . |
| 15 | I should have thought that , in the new found spirit of glasnost in the Tory Government , with public officials being required to give direct answers , the Prime Minister would hasten to give me a reply . |
| 16 | Benjamin Britten overshadowed the whole of Britain 's post-war operatic scene , from the revelatory first performance of Peter Grimes at Sadler 's Wells in June 1945 , to the desperately achieved premiere of Death in Venice , three years before his own death in 1976 . |
| 17 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 18 | Mortadella is the most popular Italian example of the scalded sausages ; it is usually very large and always contains chunks of fat in the smooth meat paste . |
| 19 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing about recording is , you always find bits of paper in the studio with lyrics on which people have left behind . |
| 21 | ‘ He always kept bottles of champagne in his fridge at work and he moved in very high-society circles . |
| 22 | HOUSING experts yesterday saw hopes of recovery in the depressed market after unseasonally strong activity . |
| 23 | Agosti still faced charges of involvement in the 1976 coup which overthrew President María Estela ( Isabelita ) de Martínez Perón [ see pp. 27741-43 ] , but military trials had been effectively suspended in April 1989 when the Supreme Court decided to examine the documentation pertaining to all cases involving military officers accused of human rights abuses in 1976-83 . |
| 24 | By contrast , capitalists are able to withdraw resources more incrementally , with restricted implications for their own immediate welfare , and they can usually redeploy means of production in other localities , regions or countries if faced with large-scale disruption . |
| 25 | One of them , a leather skirt she made for Dannii , still occupies pride of place in her little sister 's wardrobe . |
| 26 | Chea Sim , Hun Sen and Heng Samrin were the only members of the Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Council placed in power by the Vietnamese in 1979 who still held positions of power in Phnom Penh . |
| 27 | Why should Bank of England intervention to influence rates of interest in the discount market also influence rates of interest in the parallel markets ? |
| 28 | However , will the relaxed exclusionary rule admit parliamentary material which clearly refines questions of ambiguity in an ambiguous or obscure legislative text ? |
| 29 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 30 | It can also provide measures of confidence in its classification , which a conventional perceptron can not . |