Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an eminently Basque town and the one I would choose to stay in of the several alternatives along this coast ; it is more intimate than Bayonne , less pompous than Biarritz and livelier than Hendaye . |
| 2 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 3 | The time demanded in maintaining roses is not great , it does not mean a number of hours or days a week , but it does mean a regular tour around , if only of a few minutes ' duration , perhaps in the evenings , with secateurs in hand to snip or prune away faded flowers , and a puff or spray here and there as and when you find aphids or other pests . |
| 4 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 5 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 6 | The planners , a fifteen-member committee combining Japanese and Dutch know-how , selected a site on which they specifically avoided the arbitrary jumbling together of a few replicas . |
| 7 | Under the auspices of a previous coming together of the same organisations found in HOG ( plus one or two others ) , the Forum has already put together a set of Open Management Interoperability Points — OMNIpoints — which define interoperable network management products . |
| 8 | This second theory remembers that in 431BC — the high point of classical Greece — the great Pericles spoke bitterly of the many Greeks who in his judgment avoided their public responsibilities : a ‘ useless ’ lot , he called them . |
| 9 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 10 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 11 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 12 | Out of the former PNI , Sukarno had taken up partindo , and within one year its membership soared to 20000 . |
| 13 | Children wandered around even at this time of night , in and out of the many shops , playing and screaming . |
| 14 | A very lazy way to spend a day in the sun , is to buy a ‘ day ’ ticket , and hop on and off the boats and in and out of the many cafes and restaurants dotted around the lake . |
| 15 | Out of the many examples available , here is one chosen more or less at random . |
| 16 | Applications under s25 ( secure accommodation orders ) and s102 ( police warrant of assistance ) may only be transferred to a county court to consolidate with other pending family proceedings arising out of the same circumstances ( APO , art 7(3) ) . |
| 17 | But to be a Naulls , formed out of the same genes as Uncle Stanley , mouthing platitudes in the council chamber , or weedy , weak-eyed Uncle Leonard , that was intolerable . |
| 18 | Another point relates to the fact that , in the first case , the jury acquitted the defendants of one charge and convicted them of Both charges arose out of the same facts . |
| 19 | The equipment used in this book is not specialist or complicated , but a thorough checklist is given here of the many items available . |
| 20 | Indeed of the many disciplines that have contributed to the growth of modern literary theory , linguistics is almost certainly the most important . |
| 21 | The clothes in the boutiques were as superb as always , and by eleven-thirty she had managed to accumulate an assortment of bags which were beginning to feel as though they weighed several tons instead of a few pounds . |
| 22 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 23 | Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it . |
| 24 | Some of our own johnnies in the top jobs instead of a few Englishmen . |
| 25 | A doctor spoke recently of the many patients who came to him — mostly men — complaining of stiff neck , poor sleep , loss of appetite and failing sexual desire . |