Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the group most demanding of provision is that of adults with severe learning difficulties who are newly resident in the community . |
| 2 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 3 | Eventually supergrains of matter coalesced until the rocky fragments became large enough to attract more materials with gravity accreting at a faster and faster rate until they became full-sized planets . |
| 4 | Be that as it may , they gained access and proceeded to make an inventory of the goods there , mostly supplies of cloth , particularly linings . |
| 5 | If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely . |
| 6 | The Saturday Benediction was slowly dying of indifference . |
| 7 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
| 8 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 9 | Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 10 | You 've all heard of golf widows . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've all heard of Industry Year , I suppose . |
| 12 | Much slapping of rifle butts . |
| 13 | One need only think of water , gas , electricity and telephone charges , which fall disproportionately on single person households . |
| 14 | The problem with Orwell is that he could only think of class conflict in terms of major insurrectionary conflict . |
| 15 | We need only think of laurel leaves ( from which cyanide is derived ) and the foxglove , which can be lethal unless cautiously administered . |
| 16 | or kind of oven in nine , I can only think of Oakhouse as a kind of oven but erm I do n't know whether that 's it or not . |
| 17 | Management skills and systems development to ensure efficient use of resources in a more dispersed service and better targeting of health need |
| 18 | The conservation measures put forward by the British and Belgian colonial authorities were highly demanding of labour and moreover symbolised the logic of expropriation and more general exploitation by the colonial powers . |
| 19 | Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use ( 14 ) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase ( 15 ) . |
| 20 | There was general unemployment in the country which in turn affected the attendance of audiences so offers of work were dwindling . |
| 21 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 22 | The greatest improvement of all has of course been the removal of the old climate of repression and fear . |
| 23 | It can not happen not because the forms of negation are mindless , but precisely because they are too mindful of meaning and significance , constantly reminded of rationality and purposive thought : |
| 24 | With a stifled cry , she dropped the bolt , stepping back on legs that were suddenly made of water . |
| 25 | If there were any Venusians ( perhaps made of asbestos ! ) they would have no immediate knowledge of other worlds . |
| 26 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 27 | Sadly , this is what Arts educationalists like Malcolm Ross ( 1978 ) would deny our children , for he can only perceive of drama as a Performing Art . |
| 28 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 29 | Much depends of course upon what is meant by ‘ success ’ as well as by ‘ policy ’ and ‘ planning ’ . |
| 30 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |