Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 2 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 3 | Drawing on psychoanalysis , Rochlin ‘ rewrites ’ masculinity in a way which makes a virtue of what was hitherto thought of as , or experienced as , a defect : its much remarked insecurity . |
| 4 | I was told that my chances now have been greatly reduced of ever having my own family . |
| 5 | Within a few months of its launch , everything from Mercedes to Metros were available for monthly payments buyers could only dream of before . |
| 6 | You only think of here and now . ’ |
| 7 | He suspected that , inside herself , she was totally bewildered and perhaps despaired of ever finding Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 8 | Managers would do better to think of just two kinds of business strategy — competitive and corporate . |
| 9 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 10 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 11 | Each class will normally consist of approximately 10 students and will be associated with a specific test in the tuition course . |
| 12 | Even in Germany — which , hitherto , has been generally thought of as one of the safest markets — export losses through bad debt has risen by 300 per cent . |
| 13 | Was it generally thought of then er that is being in debt , was it generally thought of as being something that was evil or |
| 14 | Intarsia is normally thought of only in terms of four-ply jumpers but is also effective using finer yarns such as would be used for the vest top or T-shirts . |
| 15 | He notes that Mackie compares values to colours , and describes both as things which are normally thought of as existing independently ( and which conceivably might have done so ) but which a reasonable scientific view of the world exhibits as not really there . |
| 16 | These diverging processes are best thought of as locally autonomous in the manner of the ‘ recursive ’ procedure of Chapter 3 , rather than as coordinated in some grand central design . |
| 17 | what , oh , erm , there 's something I 've just thought of though , when they wear the er camouflage things , is that when they wear the maroon belt round ? , is n't the kaki belt with the dress uniform ? |
| 18 | Parents who are classified as ‘ unoccupied ’ largely consists of economically inactive single mothers . |
| 19 | But to make even a minor improvement to effluent which already consists of relatively good quality water may involve the discharger in very heavy expenditure indeed ( see Kneese , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | A plasmid is even smaller than a virus , and it normally consists of only a few genes . |
| 21 | very often men abusing women and yet , you know , when you 're looking at erm attitudes to gay and lesbian people it 's often the case that they 're , you know , somehow thought of as , as suspect . |
| 22 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 23 | Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose . |
| 24 | Near Belograd-chik , in north-west Bulgaria , again the basal conglomerate is largely composed of exactly similar purple quartzite pebbles ( resting on Permian breccias also like those of Midland England ) . |
| 25 | All she could do was to keep vigilant , and to hope against hope that Matthew would soon tire of the old man , or that the old man would soon tire of deliberately using the boy in order to antagonise her . |
| 26 | Even with the inclusion of additional primary and secondary schools and of the middle schools , the total sample eventually consisted of only 716 teachers , instead of the intended 800 . |
| 27 | The breeding population was always small , and from 1949 onward consisted of only one or two pairs . |
| 28 | Competitors are rarely accused of deliberately killing a kinsman , though they might well be accused of inadvertently doing so . |
| 29 | They use it a lot more than other words that are in the dictionary but no one 's ever heard of so they want to get usage . |
| 30 | In the first section , Standards Six and Seven were taught , the latter in a corner alcove , usually consisting of about twelve to fourteen boys . |