Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 2 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 3 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 4 | Draws together much of the recent scholarship on Degas , both art historical and technical , and presents it in a readable but sophisticated manner . |
| 5 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 6 | Haltingly she attempted to express her emotions and , not least , the sense of finality and despair she had known when Harry wrote so affectionately of the American girl , Cora-Beth . |
| 7 | No use has been made so far of the dynamical equation . |
| 8 | Hanley has been the most illustrious victim so far of the worrying modern phenomenon known as back-to-back football , which sees players performing practically non-stop here and in Australia . |
| 9 | No matter , because of the agreement , the aluminium company has enjoyed 13 years so far of the theoretical value of the plutonium which has not been produced . |
| 10 | The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too ! |
| 11 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 12 | Suddenly out of the murky haze , I saw one charging at me . |
| 13 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 14 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 15 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 16 | Next , unscrew the old socket faceplate , ease the cables inside out of the mounting box , and disconnect the cable cores from the terminals . |
| 17 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 18 | Where the street broadened into a square , the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement . |
| 19 | Er I 'm not sure er er I 'm sure there 's a place for them you know and someone wants them that 's lovely but we 're not hearing enough really of the Beautiful Dreamers would n't you agree ? |
| 20 | They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight . |
| 21 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 23 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 24 | Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way . |
| 25 | … the black and red patterned blanket folded over with the top sheet to form two parallel white borders from which the planes move slowly off , rise suddenly and vanish or come in out of the low grey cloud … . ( 10–11/404–5 ) |
| 26 | She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything . |
| 27 | The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow . |
| 28 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 29 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 30 | So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there . |