Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness .
2 As the residents bring out their used syringes and collect new ones , a neighbour of sorts , a working-class black man who lives in an apartment across the street , brings a bundle of used clothing on to the wasteland .
3 I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm .
4 Fingers of light poke about in the back of the hall , casting Spiritualized 's five members ( plus Will Gregory on sax ) as shadow puppets in an incredibly static play .
5 Immediately a little beam of light shot out of the barrel of the gun , aimed at the target .
6 I pull my little piece of four-by-two-inch rag out of the barrel of the Smith & Wesson , hold the pistol up to the overhead fluorescent , and squint inside .
7 As they reached the centre of the lion enclosure , a large cage on wheels was ahead of them , and a young woman with a pitchfork was shovelling carcasses of raw meat out through the bars while adult male lions , lionesses and their cubs crowded round .
8 The Skeleton rips a chunk of raw flesh out of the character ( normal damage , +3 ) and then sits on the floor and begins to bite and tear at its ‘ meal ’ .
9 A recent article on this theme brought both censors and defenders of free expression out of the woodwork and into the correspondence columns of the Library Association record .
10 Early one morning they tied their stripy woven bags of Tibetan salt on to the yaks and left for the south .
11 As he bent tenderly over it to examine the flattened tyres , a hand stuck a length of rubber piping out of the wash-room window and directed a jet of water down his neck .
12 Putting a length of rubber tubing on to the attachment , she turned a bottle upside-down to allow the liquid to flow .
13 He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period .
14 Thus , unlike social class , social network does not require us to project at the initial stage a fully-fledged theory of social structure on to the linguistic data .
15 The only area an exile hopes to cultivate is what the Americans call ‘ the chicken and peas circuit ’ — those endless dinners , lunches and buffet suppers by which the Conservative Party binds its supporters in a form of social cement out in the sticks .
16 To take any form of cultural production out of the market , by new patronal or public funding , is a very deliberate decision , with its own , sometimes isolating and conserving , effects .
17 Geographical proximity meant that these relations have continued to be of crucial importance through into the post-1945 period .
18 Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet .
19 So far we 've seen the highlights of Central News up to the end of nineteen eighty-eight when the programme was broadcast from Birmingham .
20 Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor .
21 Press pieces of white icing on to the remaining green icing , then roll and fold the ends into the centre .
22 The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising .
23 You could see them squatting on their hams silhouetted around bonfires ; sometimes one of the figures would throw a lump of dried buffalo-dung on to the flames .
24 Similarly , if you want to change the diet from juicy brown canned food to into a dry complete diet , start by mixing just a couple of pieces of dried food in with the juicy stuff , gradually increasing the proportion each day until you reach the desired menu .
25 From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away .
26 After dark we followed the smell of sizzling meat down to the fair-ground .
27 For the whole of human history up to the turn of the present century , simple physical survival has been the dominant issue in child upbringing : a question not of ‘ How shall I rear my child ? ’ but of 'Will I rear him ? ’
28 After contact with intraluminal antigens , the lymphocytes travel to mesenterial lymph nodes to mature and by way of peripheral blood back to the gut mucosa to secrete antibodies against the priming antigen .
29 Elinor fetched a pot of Greek yoghurt out of the fridge as she was weight watching .
30 Simply stated , it claimed — on the basis of long-run data on wages and unemployment — that there was a trade-off between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of wages ; and that union bargaining and other influences such as changes in the structure of the labour market — were of secondary importance in in the process of determining the level of wages and , presumably , wage-costs .
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