Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight . |
| 2 | It got rather sort of upgraded . |
| 3 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 4 | The articulatory loop should also be seldom used since it would slow down processing of a message whose speed is beyond the control of the interpreter . |
| 5 | But colour terms frequently qualify only part of the object their head noun denotes ; furthermore , different colour terms may typically apply to different parts , so that , for instance , Mary 's eyes are blue and Mary 's eyes are red are not contraries ( N.B. there is no lexical ambiguity in these sentences ) . |
| 6 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 7 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 8 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 9 | Voters are given only part of the story when making their decisions . |
| 10 | Yeah I can get her to wait down sort of at the other end . |
| 11 | B&C shares recovered only part of their losses , closing 16p down at 92p , because the rumours coincided with downgradings of the company by three analysts . |
| 12 | All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park . |
| 13 | By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation . |
| 14 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 15 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 16 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 17 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 18 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 19 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 20 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted ( using option 2.7.0 ) and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 21 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 22 | " A great player like Seve wants basically confirmation of what he is or is not doing right , " explained Bob . |
| 23 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 24 | and Imperial , it does so with the clear intention of keeping only part of the business for its own portfolio and selling the rest to the highest bidder . |
| 25 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 26 | Again , a servant in custody of his master 's goods has not possession of them , for it is constructively in the master . |
| 27 | This is all the more surprising in view of the fact that the northern king , Aldfrith , was now confined largely north of the Humber , the Northumbrians preoccupied with their own problems of reconstruction following the Pictish victory at Nechtanesmere in 685 and seemingly unable even to take possession of Lindsey again . |
| 28 | The real turning point occurred just north of Châlons , during September when , in one of the bloodiest battles of human history , over 200,000 men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than twenty-four hours . |
| 29 | Place over bowl of simmering water and whisk until whisk leaves a trail . |
| 30 | In doing so he also provided further evidence of his ability to mobilize significant numbers of black and working class white voters in the South . |