Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone lines to the city were jammed and messages of support flowed in from other student bodies . |
| 2 | Flaps of skin grew out of either side of the lower part of the body , helping to guide them through the water . |
| 3 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 4 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 5 | Additions to a cluster can of course come about by internal investment in greenfield projects ( such as an accountancy firm starting up its own insolvency practice ) , as well as by acquisition or merger . |
| 6 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |
| 7 | If all you want is a simple page of text run out in one of the standard LaserWriter fonts then any of the bureau should be able to manage that without any difficulty at all — if they ca n't then they probably wo n't last long in the business . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 9 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 10 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 11 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 12 | Then it shows the hypocrisy of the Labour party , which claims ’ Made in Britain ’ as its slogan while its Members of Parliament drive around in French motor cars and spend most of their time denigrating British industry . |
| 13 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 14 | Adored by his public and his pupils , feared by the phoney , derided by the reactionary , de Pomiane 's irreverent attitude to established tradition , his independence of mind backed up by scientific training , earned him the reputation of being something of a Candide , a provocative rebel disturbing the grave conclaves of French gastronomes , questioning the holy rites of the " white-vestured officiating priests " of classical French cookery . |
| 15 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 16 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 17 | The Kingdom of God as a new dimension of living opens up to those who turn away from their sins , evidencing a radical break with the past . |
| 18 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 19 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 20 | This year , the funds have been allocated very much according to the UFC 's grading of the quality of research carried out at each university . |
| 21 | Other Norwegians argued that whaling was no more cruel than any other forms of hunting indulged in by anti-whaling nations , including fox- or deer-hunting , and claimed that explosive grenades fired by the harpoon guns ensured that the whale died instantly . |
| 22 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 23 | ‘ Not till — ’ But their argument was violently interrupted as a cheer of derision went up from another corner of the playground and Jack caught a glimpse of Derek 's looming bulk in the middle of a crowd of children . |
| 24 | The headmaster threw back his head and gave out the kind of laugh dished out by medieval jailers to boastful prisoners . |
| 25 | Beggars and bank managers squat side by side in a battered , broken office block , in a barn in the field next door and beneath sheets of plastic and bits of wood knocked up into makeshift shelters . |
| 26 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 27 | Our most significant contract , at Teesside for Enron Power , is now nearing completion and the amount of work carried out on this project under extremely difficult conditions is a credit to all concerned . |
| 28 | In a report to the committee , technical services director Stewart Henderson said that , because of the unsatisfactory nature of work carried out on public buildings , other contractors had to be called in . |
| 29 | Together they constitute a representative sample of the range of work carried out in English inspired and informed by the broad spectrum of Kristeva 's influential writings , from her early semiotically based work , notably Revolution in Poetic Language , to the later psychoanalytically oriented studies of abjection , love and melancholia . |
| 30 | The internal combustion engine did not destroy an unchanging pattern of work stretching back into immemorial antiquity and neither is rapid technological change in agriculture a purely twentieth-century phenomenon . |