Example sentences of "of [verb] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although it might appears that this unit could be used to copy into EEPROMS , this proved impractical with my own computer because it is not capable of providing the longer write pulses necessary ( typically about 10mS ) . |
2 | Despite the US decision to lift economic sanctions in the hope of giving the newly installed government of President Guillermo Endara a chance , Panama , like much of Latin American and Africa , remains deeply in debt . |
3 | His success in eliminating London smog was balanced by the task of implementing the much disliked Rent Act of his predecessor , Duncan Sandys ( later Baron Duncan-Sandys ) . |
4 | The second response to the endemic boredom , monotony and frequent cold , and to the impossibility of achieving the formally stated goals , was ‘ easing behaviour ’ … |
5 | While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars … |
6 | When I saw him stood upright before me , I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room . |
7 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |