Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " .
2 A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] .
3 The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies .
4 She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world .
5 Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there .
6 With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality .
7 ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things .
8 Up to five hundred Soviets arrive every day , and it 's the Israeli government 's policy of settling them in the occupied territories of the West Bank that cause most Arab hostility .
9 ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London .
10 Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London .
11 In the seventeenth century army service had sometimes offered to ambitious men of low birth the prospect of raising themselves in the social scale , and perhaps of acquiring nobility for themselves and their descendants .
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