Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | THE MACHO MAN : His present is his presence : his life story , a feel of his biceps , a drunken kiss to any woman who is silly enough to stray within reach of his groping ; and , if he is feeling generous , the promise of a night out at his local . |
| 4 | Your Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the aforementioned Resolutions , and intend themselves so to vote in respect of their own beneficial holdings totalling 117,180 ordinary shares representing 0.07% of the present issues ordinary share capital . |
| 5 | And then , when he was alone , he would get drunk enough to sleep without dreaming of his mother screaming . |
| 6 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 7 | She was n't sure just how she felt , but she retained enough control to know that she could n't give in to shock in front of fitzAlan . |
| 8 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 9 | Would be easing , so to speak in sort of units of horses or electricity . |
| 10 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 11 | For , just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles , a right recognised by law in this country since 1916 , so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf . |
| 12 | Brushing the unruly wet tendrils of hair from her cheeks , she went over to stand in front of it , holding out her hands to the heat . |
| 13 | For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows . |
| 14 | The close agreement between the teams ' assessment diagnoses and those made by formal psychiatric review is reassuring , in that the multidisciplinary approach to initial assessment seems not to lead to misdiagnosis of patients . |
| 15 | But the major thrust is identifying factors which are associated with companies decisions to comply or not to comply with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 16 ’ Current Cost Accounting ’ . |
| 16 | The unfortunate side effect is that the Act appears not to require as assessment of the utterance as a whole elsewhere in the Act , especially in relation to sections 21 and 22 . |
| 17 | IT 'S a balmy day on the Cote d'Azur and you 're on top of the world , not to mention on top of your favourite redhead . |
| 18 | We are not even likely to put up with our politicians ' abdication of monetary responsibility for long , though it is another subject they try not to mention in front of us . |
| 19 | MR CLINTON is set to give his Secret Service agents fits in his determination not to live in fear of the assassin 's bullet . |
| 20 | He rolled over to lie on top of her and said : ‘ Phew ! |
| 21 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 22 | Rabbits would dash out of their losing darkness , and the village boys would chase them with sticks and yells , careful not to get in front of the two who had the guns . |
| 23 | In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments . |
| 24 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 25 | He said that he did not wish to block the legal process , however , and asked the government to find " a legal solution in which the need of the good functioning of parliamentary democracy can be reconciled with the right of the King not to act in violation of his conscience " . |
| 26 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 27 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 28 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 29 | King Hassan , the Maghreb 's sole reigning monarch , had issued a swift and strong condemnation of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and he went on to vote in favour of the resolution adopted at the Cairo summit . |
| 30 | Gazzer hauled himself up to sit on top of the pill-box . |