Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income tax is by far the most important direct tax , alone contributing almost 26% of government receipts . |
| 2 | In the aftermath of the battle Beaumont was apparently made both Earl of Moray and constable of Scotland by the new king . |
| 3 | This would explain more about the history of local trade and perhaps show how knowledge of bronze-casting reached West Africa . |
| 4 | I do n't want to go religious on you , but the approach of April naturally conjures up images of Easter , and hence , the Lamb of God , lamb on the table , and all of that . |
| 5 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 6 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 7 | For the moment we can only piece together fragments of evidence . |
| 8 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 9 | So take along swatches of fabric and paint colours when you 're choosing — see our handy boxes for further tips and hints . |
| 10 | I like to keep the background dark , and just bring in elements of sky and buildings and use the Norman to highlight the model . ’ |
| 11 | Listening carefully , could just make out sounds of movement from somewhere down below . |
| 12 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 13 | The teeth on these tools are formed individually to slice off slivers of wood quickly and easily . |
| 14 | This method dispenses with the old image of workers laboriously laying down layers of fibre in a mould and adding resin by brush . |
| 15 | Does the governors ' report to parents ever pick up elements of dissatisfaction and ways in which this was addressed ? |
| 16 | Still sucking in lungfuls of air and wincing at the detonating roar of Duvall 's automatic pistol , Cardiff began to haul himself to his feet again by one arm , his gun hand hanging limp . |
| 17 | Until recently , the word has always conjured up pictures of food , which imposed an artificial limit on the range of plants . |
| 18 | THE LEADERSHIP of the Scottish Labour Party yesterday played down talk of division between moderates and a group led by Mr George Galloway who founded Scotland United — a loose grouping of MPs , trades unionists and other prominent personalities — committed to home rule . |
| 19 | Whereas spending on goods and services directly uses up factors of production that could otherwise have been employed in the private sector , transfer payments do not directly pre-empt society 's scarce resources . |
| 20 | If the official receiver decides not to summon a meeting of creditors , he must nonetheless send out proofs of debt with the notice of his decision . |
| 21 | Although naturally designed more to draw out signs of abnormality , they nevertheless demand similar mental operations , being open-ended procedures in which , for example , subjects are required to interpret proverbs or sort everyday objects in any way they prefer . |
| 22 | Ever wondered why 98% of Commodore gamers are male ? |
| 23 | It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability , but , as Professor Wilson has pointed out , " by advertising the opportunities of the stock market " the dealers of " Change Alley " helped in the long run " to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators , by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock " . |
| 24 | And he still picked up bits of stuff . |
| 25 | Mr Ryzhkov also ruled out rationing of food and basic goods with other products available on the free market , saying rationing was a return to centralised administration , and contradicted the notion of reform . |
| 26 | Prostacyclin can also bring about disaggregation of platelet aggregates in vitro ( Moncada et al , 1976a ; Ubatuba et al , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | They 'll also send back details of heat and moisture ; vital when you 're predicting cloud formation . |
| 28 | Sometimes the shutters of my room , raised slightly to let in streaks of sunlight between their horizontal slats , made our winter room seem tropical . |
| 29 | It is likened to a heaven full of stars , yet better than such because his wounds are efficacious by day as well as by night , and not only can not be obscured by clouds but positively drive away clouds of sin ; a net full of holes in which the meditator prays to be drawn to the bank of death ; a dovecote full of holes of refuge and a honeycomb full of cells of sweet honey ; a book written in red ink — matter for the meditator 's attention at " matyns , pryme , houris , euesong & complin " ; a meadow full of healing and delightful flowers and herbs ( 96 – 7 ) . |
| 30 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |