Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It passed and he looked upriver to where Mariana lay hidden upstream of the fallen treetrunk .
2 However , at the junction of the 25kDa/50kDa proteolytic fragments located downstream of the putative Mg-ATPase domain , the amino acid comparison revealed a completely divergent region of 13 amino acids after which the high degree of homology was restored ( 9 ) .
3 DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning .
4 Detail Design — The fuel tank is located ahead of the rear wheels and the collapsible steering column is also fitted with a deformable support structure .
5 Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’
6 Some mention has been made already of the salutary effect which business support can have on motivation in schools .
7 However , brief mention should be made here of the Indian press .
8 As all entries in the database are tagged with the name of the person who entered them and the date of entry , certain types of retrieval can be done independently of the semantic net .
9 Later , for the 20 and 30 , the motor was moved ahead of the front axle .
10 If that nose had pleased the gods as it pleased Caesar and Antony , a loose Alexandrian gnosticism might have prevailed instead of the Christian discipline imposed by the two Romes , the old one on the Tiber , and the new one on the Bosporus .
11 She has written recently of the current situation in Zaire .
12 Firstly , some fancy edgings which can be used instead of the usual welt .
13 Lighting our houses , workplaces and public buildings may account for over 10GW of power at peak time — this could be cut by 75 per cent if new fluorescent lamps were used instead of the incandescent light bulb .
14 When the model-calculated ozone was used instead of the climatological values ( Fig. 1b ) there was little change .
15 ( Miles had already spoken gloomily of the inevitable price rises which the Middle East situation must precipitate .
16 Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf .
17 The extreme reduction in diameter of the incisive canal and lengthening and rotation of the alveolar clivus of the premaxilla in the orang-utan are probably derived independently of the hominine condition .
18 The account provided here of the developmental approach to the child 's mastery of language will be dealt with in two parts .
19 Mr Havel , himself a victim of the secret police , has spoken frequently of the never-ending threat of a house search , the knowledge that every visitor was photographed and every conversation bugged by the Communist regime .
20 Little is known however of the precise importance of housing within inheritance as a whole , the social characteristics of the beneficiaries , the uses to which housing inheritance is put , or of its impact on the housing market .
21 The equipment used in this book is not specialist or complicated , but a thorough checklist is given here of the many items available .
22 Craik ( 1943 ) considered that thinking paralleled reality in that within the mind there must be a model of reality which can be manipulated independently of the outside world .
23 These probabilities are low and support the findings of the Black report , though they exaggerate the significance of the findings because there was no prior hypothesis , formulated independently of the observed data , in determining the diagnostic groups , age groups , periods , or area to be studied .
24 The constraint that we shall perceive only that which is ‘ really there ’ is a true constraint only if ‘ really there ’ can be defined independently of the usual constraints of perception .
25 The list of communications unc needs to be represented independently of the minimal acceptances because not all communications need appear in a minimal acceptance set .
26 And as the Saatchi shares peaked ahead of the 1987 stock market crash the seeds of its financial decline had already been sown .
27 In the example given earlier of the different uses of " run " in English , you must not expect that the word in the new language which is used to translate the word " run " as it is used in group 1 .
28 ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police .
29 Shorn even of the Social Chapter , Maastricht embodies every right-wing economic proposal currently throttling Europe .
30 Baseball fans point out that Jackson bats right-handed and throws left instead of the other way round and was anyway more villain than hero , a theory the film never discusses .
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