Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 2 | The receiver 's job is to safeguard the creditor 's security , and to sell sufficient of the charged assets to pay off the secured debt . |
| 3 | Only half a generation later the Dutch had found them in Borneo and more were revealed in 1829 in the Urals as part of the Russian drive to open up the mineral resources of the interior . |
| 4 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 5 | The ability of the loyalist terrorists to track down the location is an illustration of how much better their intelligence on the IRA has become . |
| 6 | It is the function of the cognitive analyser to perform in exactly this way and thereby to relate the organism more closely to environmental and social change . |
| 7 | ‘ This is only to be expected with more people taking advantage of the good weather to get out and about in the countryside . |
| 8 | Fang appeared prepared to sacrifice his privileges as part of the technical intelligentsia to speak out ; otherwise , he believed ‘ education will remain a master-apprentice affair ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 134 ) . |
| 9 | … it is doubtless true that the power of the imperial Parliament to pass on its own initiative any legislation that it thought fit extending to Canada remains unimpaired . |
| 10 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 11 | One of the key lessons to come out of the General Motors-Toyota joint venture in California is that the Japanese automaker does not rely on automation and technology to replace workers in the plant . |
| 12 | A FATHER told a murder trial yesterday of the agonising decision to switch off his baby son 's life support machine after he had been severely brain damaged while in the care of the nurse Beverley Allitt . |
| 13 | This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide . |
| 14 | It was part of the failure of the comprehensive schools to shake off the image of ‘ grammar schools for all ’ . |
| 15 | Here are some of the new developments to look out for . |
| 16 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 17 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 18 | Cold , I descended out of the narrow cleft to seek out more sport . |
| 19 | With the titans of 1945 gone , the stumbling old guard of the Conservative Party finally tripped up : it was the chance for the lower orders of the middle classes to bite back . |
| 20 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 21 | It was left to other more prominent and vocal members of the Labour party to stir up people 's fears with irrelevant and inaccurate claims about the consequences . |
| 22 | Married couples , where one of the spouses has little or no income , should transfer income from deposits and investments into the account of the non-working spouse to use up his or her allowance — that is , a slice of tax free income . |
| 23 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |
| 24 | Here is a summary of the main features to look out for . |
| 25 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 26 | At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns . |
| 27 | There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group . |
| 28 | It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case . |
| 29 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 30 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |