Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 2 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 3 | Sometimes this is built-in to the carpet in the form of a heavy foam backing which only needs layers of newspaper underneath it . |
| 4 | Since Roberts 's book focuses on women , she necessarily highlights patterns of exchange which are specific to women , and it is quite possible that both duty and affection were ( and are ) more prominent in exchanges between women than when men are involved . |
| 5 | Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic . |
| 6 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 7 | The Packard Bell Elite 1000 comes with plenty of bundled software and sound support , but it only has 2Mb of RAM |
| 8 | This principle includes the need to see whether the professional or other body under scrutiny not only has rules of conduct , which will be thoroughly scrutinised within the statutory machinery , but also has an effective mechanism for enforcing the rules of conduct and is likely to enforce them . |
| 9 | Although the user may imagine that any block size will be acceptable , VSAM only uses blocks of size 512b or 2048b , where b can take any value in the range 1–16 ; this means that VSAM will round up any intermediate value to the next available block size , so wasting the difference between the two values . |
| 10 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 11 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 12 | If you 're thinking of getting into shape , take it easy and build up slowly — a frantic training programme greatly increases risk of over-use injury . |
| 13 | Such a review naturally includes questions of staffing quality , rules and regulations , classification , control of different kinds of abuses , prison employment and cleanliness , system comparison and where ultimate decision-making power is located . |
| 14 | Dodging the issue like this only creates feelings of confusion , guilt or resentment . |
| 15 | This approach by no means necessarily reflects lack of sympathy for the lot of the least privileged in society . |
| 16 | Having an operation naturally entails feelings of anxiety , so talk to as many professional people as you can — doctors , nurses , the anaesthetist when he comes to visit you — to reassure yourself . |
| 17 | So does Eliot of course , so does William Empson ; not to speak of Dryden , Johnson , Coleridge , Arnold . |
| 18 | Such mis-managed demeaning talk not only induces feelings of worthlessness amongst old folk momentarily , but can , in the long run , reduce life-satisfaction , mental and physical health , with valued social welfare and medical resources being subsequently implicated . |
| 19 | Thus we come to a more general and tenable version of dualism : that every writer necessarily makes choices of expression , and that it is in these choices , in his " way of putting things " , that style resides . |
| 20 | Since , as Leech and Short ( 1981 ) point out , every writer ( and speaker ) necessarily makes choices of expression , there is , on this view , no neutral style.6 However , in contrast with Leech and Short ( 1981 : 19 – 24 , 38 ) , I do not have in mind simply those choices made from amongst the modes of expression made possible by the language . |
| 21 | Yeah , well Scott I mean he just eats loads of bread |
| 22 | My view about the Matsushita response is simply that the Japanese higher education system generally requires knowledge of English , which seems at odds with the Technics explanation . |
| 23 | The UK government just survives vote of confidence by one vote as opposition leader John Smith votes with Tories saying ‘ You got yourselves into this mess , I 'm not getting you out of it . ’ |
| 24 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 25 | Section 17 of the SGSA inserts a new subsection 3A in s 7 of the UCTA , which is equivalent in its operation to s 6(1) of the UCTA , and thus prevents exclusion of liability for breach of the warranties implied by s 2 of the SGSA . |
| 26 | Durham Wildlife Trust already owns scores of nature reserves around the county . |
| 27 | The embedded figures test , which highlights these factors , has been used in a wide range of cross-cultural situations to support research work , and broadly differentiates types of perception arising within different cultures . |
| 28 | No longer does evidence of authenticity have to rely solely on stylistic criteria , which can be unreliable . |
| 29 | She still has periods of withdrawal and sadness but they are decreasing . |
| 30 | In Word the simplest memory is the ‘ scrap ’ — so called because it usually contains scraps of text . |