Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] of [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 2 | Jean Monnet was appointed as the president of the High Authority , and his resignation from the office in June 1955 was the only occasion before the setting up of the much broader European Economic Community in 1957 when there was a change in the membership of the High Authority . |
| 3 | Nor did the reinforcement of Havelock Wilson 's powers in the new union , or his patrician and domineering style of running it , make allies out of the more independently minded of the local leadership , while his attempts at centralised financial control left him open to frequent accusations of mismanagement . |
| 4 | At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress . |
| 5 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 6 | Crumpled wrapping paper froths out of a tightly packed waste-paper bin and two brightly painted Mexican cats — a gift from Kenneth — guard a neat array of unwrapped presents . |
| 7 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 8 | Preservation is about to pull its biggest rabbit out of an amazingly copious hat . |
| 9 | Attempting to crank the last iota of abandonment out of an intrinsically empty and mechanical experience . |
| 10 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 11 | I would strongly recommend both books in providing enlightening routes out of a very demanding and difficult area . |
| 12 | Kinsai was constructed on top of a plug of volcanic rock which rose sheer for almost a thousand metres out of an almost perfectly flat and featureless plain . |
| 13 | It 's easier to extract sense out of a fruitfly than to get a civil word out of Rickie . |
| 14 | You get more sense out of a virtually , than what you get out of that ! |
| 15 | The weeding out of the congenitally unfit was only a secondary process , less important than the pressure encouraging most individuals to become fitter . |
| 16 | ‘ First you make a mystery out of a fairly ordinary — although for you — tragic — event , and , believe me , I do sympathise with you over that … |
| 17 | Sherman believes that , as a result of these changes , police are more likely to talk their way out of a potentially disorderly situation than they were in the 1960s ( ibid.:231 ) . |
| 18 | Big trout muscle out of the dead cold ; |
| 19 | At specific points on the journey , the taxi pauses , and a window is lowered , to allow for the spitting out of a hoarsely whispered phrase , in a guttural ghetto tongue : ‘ May tall buildings fall on them , when they walk down the street . ’ |