Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narrative illustration , in the sense given here , is rarely highly thought of by adult critics . |
| 2 | There are , however , hints in The Middlemen of the modes of narration which are to replace what is so brutally disposed of at the end of the tale . |
| 3 | Indeed , sound is perhaps best thought of as a wave , or series of waves , of stress passing through a substance at its natural speed . |
| 4 | Because innovation is so often thought of in purely product feature terms , these connections are especially important : they are the almost invisible understanding of the immediate situation that can spell ultimate success or failure in the marketplace … |
| 5 | Joe was a bookbinder , a very highly skilled craftsman , so well thought of by his employers , Browns of the Canal , that when the business was sold to W.H. Smith 's in 1924 they made a condition that Joe should continue in his department until retirement . |
| 6 | Calculators , on the other hand , are still not entirely approved of by some parents and teachers , even though our experience would suggest that an ability to use a calculator is a far more relevant skill for everyday life than almost any of the pencil-and-paper arithmetic taught in schools . |
| 7 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 8 | ( 13 ) For the purposes of any proceedings at the quarterly meeting in March in the final year of office of members of a licensing board which are not finally disposed of before the expiry in that year of the term of office of the members , the members of the licensing board in office at the date of the said meeting shall , notwithstanding such expiry , be deemed to constitute the licensing board . |
| 9 | Not normally thought of as an apologist , Souness is still traumatised by the tackle which left Hibernian 's George McCluskey needing nine stitches in a knee wound . |
| 10 | They are not normally thought of as potassium nitrate molecules existing as single entities outside the solid lattice . |
| 11 | Recruitment is not normally thought of as an obvious candidate . |
| 12 | Newspaper reports of rape are not usually thought of as pornography , though sometimes they are in effect . |
| 13 | Among these he included the educational system and also many institutions that are not usually thought of as part of the state , such as the family , churches , the media , trade unions and political parties . |
| 14 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 15 | Yet , as Hirst ( 1983 ) indicates , the debate was still generally conceived of in terms of the old , well-established disciplines versus ( or integrated with ) the school subject areas . |
| 16 | Whole or partially eaten carcases are usually quickly disposed of by scavengers if left exposed . |
| 17 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 18 | They 're more often thought of in the DTP world , where they are more or less mandatory . |
| 19 | Even clothes washing and bed-making , still ordinarily thought of as women 's jobs , were frequently mentioned by husbands as things they did as well . |
| 20 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 21 | Others we do n't usually think of as drugs at all , like alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 22 | But only housework does n't have a wage , only housework is n't really thought of as work , only housework is despised , and only women do housework . |
| 23 | A ministry that we do n't often think of as a ministry . |
| 24 | This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're doin' the type of violence we was n't even thinkin' of at that age , takin' guns to school and all that . |
| 26 | In terms of institutional study , there is a dislike of what I think is rather sourly thought of as high culture and high art , and in favour of communications , which can be awfully boring and not terribly rewarding . |
| 27 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 28 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
| 29 | Lenton found the community ‘ extraordinarily well reported of by their neighbours for their liberality to the poor ’ and left full of admiration for them . |
| 30 | To this I will add that he is a Boy of modest and pleasing manners , and is in all respects very well thought of in Ambleside and the neighbourhood . |