Example sentences of "[adv] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meh'Lindi 's attitude to the Tormentum was impassive , inscrutable — while the corridors and crypts reminded Grimm nostalgically of mine workings and coaly caverns . |
| 2 | Both books show that poverty and even ugliness can be overcome ; once emancipated , Celie grew rich and thought better of her appearance . |
| 3 | He was a man of strong ambition and had a doubtful reputation as an intriguer , but he was an able man who had deserved better of his party . |
| 4 | walked through the winter 's snow and the summer 's hot sun , all the time , alongside of her mother . |
| 5 | It could be considered as a reliable indication of what colleagues of MacDonald thought , but not necessarily of what MacDonald thought . |
| 6 | In his role as friend and protector of the Nuer universe , and more especially of its constituent lineages , god is seen in specific manifestations or ‘ refractions ’ , which introduces the familiar theological problem of the one and the many . |
| 7 | Advocates of liberal education and especially of its science component argue plausibly for its effect on pupils ' ability to think logically , but the evidence for such an effect is not substantial . |
| 8 | Although he became critical of the methods of the old bone-setters , and especially of their views on diseases of the joints , he had learned from watching his father 's manipulative practices , and in his workshop he followed their practice of making their own splints . |
| 9 | For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally . |
| 10 | The political activities of members of Özal 's family , especially of his wife Semra Özal , had also received unfavourable publicity . |
| 11 | Asquith 's fall was the result of his own miscalculation , especially of his reluctance to believe that the Unionists would prefer Lloyd George to himself in a contest . |
| 12 | I think especially of his family . |
| 13 | I think especially of our debate tonight on new clause 15 , when there was an inadequate response from the Government , who appeared to have inadequate knowledge of the points being raised . |
| 14 | More will be said below of their history in fiction ( chapter 4 ) ; for the present it is enough to notice that in this case , too , Sketches by Boz appears to mark a divide . |
| 15 | I 've had quite enough of your tantrums since you slipped yesterday and I 'm getting bored by them . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've taken up quite enough of your time , my dear cousin . ’ |
| 17 | Now I 'd had quite enough of my duties by day ; |
| 18 | Erm if you have a look through them and then have a quick write down of what gifts you think the different ones that are mentioned in this are using . |
| 19 | During 1992 , £400 million was transferred from merger reserve to profit and loss account in the Company , following the write down of its investment in Ultramar by £412 million . |
| 20 | Earnings per share in the period were five p but after taking into account exceptional Carpet Right gain this is reduced to two point eight p and compares to last year 's pro forma earnings per share of one point four million which included losses on the closing down of our operations . |
| 21 | The building up and dashing down of his hopes . |
| 22 | For many years my husband Brian and I had determined to go to Normandy in order to visit the grave and to find out , if possible , any further information concerning the shooting down of his aircraft over Cherbourg in September 1940 , even though it had happened so many years before . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics . |
| 24 | The most beautiful evening ( perhaps of my life ) was on Flakstadoya . |
| 25 | He did attempt to reassure me ( perhaps of his sanity ) by adding that he only had a ‘ basic marine system ’ in mind — not a miniature reef system or a 600 gallon show tank job . |
| 26 | These people were friends of Lowell — and perhaps of his wife . |
| 27 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 28 | The artwork needs to offer the greatest possible contrast to the camera , so it is best to use a very black ink on a very white paper ( equally true , of course , for photocopying regardless of what colour paper you want to print on ) . |
| 29 | Regardless of what Nick Popplewell and he might achieve in the months ahead with the Lions last Saturday will never leave him . |
| 30 | Moreover , these proportions are much the same regardless of what type of credit has been used . |