Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys . |
| 2 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 3 | Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is expressly limited to replacement of the diskette as provided above . |
| 4 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 5 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 6 | There are changes — the numbers were exceptionally high , as the hon. Gentleman graphically indicated just now — but still no one could claim that Northern Ireland was badly placed in respect of our proposals . |
| 7 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 8 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 9 | All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin . |
| 10 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 11 | No doubt there will be some complicated arguments about the concept of recklessness in the civil courts since this concept , commonplace in the criminal courts , is rarely paraded in front of the civil judge . |
| 12 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 13 | Not out of the radio sets themselves , mind you , but — about a month after legalization — he flogged cassette tapes on ‘ How to keep a conversation going on CB ’ , with a follow-up manual listing good ‘ handles ’ ( mostly pinched from Lord of the Rings ) for Citizen Banders with absolutely no imagination . |
| 14 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 15 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |
| 16 | The dynastic struggle was eventually resolved in favour of the Habsburgs , but not before the death of Zápolya in 1540 . |
| 17 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 18 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 19 | Iceland : the Althing , which began to discuss the agreement on Aug. 17 , eventually voted in favour of ratification — requiring only a simple majority — on Jan. 12 , 1993 . |
| 20 | The bandicoots and the wombats are both diggers , excavating long burrows in search of their food . |
| 21 | In Peters v. Prince of Wales Theatre ( Birmingham ) Ltd . , |
| 22 | The Emperor , popularly supposed to be immortal , only endured by virtue of adamantine , anguished courage and will power . |
| 23 | Since it is a non-democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . |
| 24 | They returned with a huge roll of green baize which was then gently placed on top of the groaning air conditioner . |
| 25 | However , copying is not necessarily limited to duplication of substantial parts and it is possible to copy a computer program in a wider sense . |
| 26 | Perhaps one or two of them were so blinded by hatred of Lloyd George as to believe that the move would still show up his impotence . |
| 27 | Under the treaty the role of Japanese troops is almost entirely limited to defence of Japanese territory and sea approaches , but the stationing of US troops on Japanese soil could embroil Japan in any conflict in East Asia . |
| 28 | With luck , their homes would not be burgled and any disputes that might subsequently arise over their property would be swiftly resolved on production of those impressive-looking deeds , some of them so old that they bore the colophon of the Sublime Porte . |
| 29 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 30 | I should perhaps apologize on behalf of the hotel for the temperature in the room this morning er I stayed here last night and woke up to find that not only was there no heat in the radiators , but there was no heat in the hot water . |