Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the household , we may find ourselves acting as ‘ memory ’ to the whole family , both in the prosaic sense of keeping lists of jobs and obligations in mind , and also in the sense of building up an extended record of family life with photos , souvenirs and diaries . |
| 2 | STOKE have dropped a complaint against England 's Wade Dooley after he was accused of knocking out an opposing player in a recent Courage League match . |
| 3 | In the main trophy final Sevenoaks defeated St Olave 's School in a game worthy of rounding off an excellent day 's rugby . |
| 4 | Phonetic refers to a way of writing down an accurate version of what sounds people make when they talk , and uses phonetic symbols ; so butter would be written phonetically as |
| 5 | Having proved myself incapable of holding back an irresistible force , I now know exactly how Canute felt . |
| 6 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
| 7 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 8 | The hon. Lady represents a nationalist party , which seems to preclude the idea of taking on an international responsibility for nuclear matters . |
| 9 | And so we , we are in the process of setting up an online database computerized which would be accessible by not just branches , but individual erm health and safety reps for a fairly minimal affiliation which will tap into the latest information which will be updated er every three months and we feel that again that 's something in conjunction with , clearly with the unions in the city something that a trades council should be doing , something that raises our profile , explains to people what trade councils , what the trade union movement is all about and does it effectively using modern techniques and modern methods . |
| 10 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
| 11 | At the same time , Denyer had the idea of setting up an accompanying exhibition : it seemed an obvious extension of the book . |
| 12 | As a result of a request from the project to a local College of Further Education for someone to provide an ‘ O ’ level class for mothers involved in a pre-school play-group , discussions took place about the possibility of setting up an educational project to complement and support the work of the community action project . |
| 13 | Then , realizing the cost and risk of setting up an American operation only for his own films , he backtracked and arranged for US to handle his company 's big-budget pictures . |
| 14 | If place is to be defined in terms of co-ordinates , the assumption that no particular can be in two places at once presupposes the ( logical ) possibility of a unique designation by means of co-ordinates of every single position in space , i.e. the possibility , in principle , of setting up an all-embracing co-ordinate system ; making it possible to differentiate unambiguously every point in space from any other from a given origin . |
| 15 | There 's talk of setting up an advisory board for him to consult . |
| 16 | Strangely , the match is never mentioned , as if a spot of gloating over an English rugby victory might be construed as bad form . |