Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 2 | By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation . |
| 3 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 4 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 5 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 6 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 7 | Baghdad declared that its forces were mopping up west of Fish Lake , having ‘ purged ’ the lake of the first and second waves of Iranians to cross . |
| 8 | LAWS to tighten up control of strays take effect this week but anyone who expects to see the streets cleared of roaming dogs will be disappointed . |
| 9 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 10 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 11 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 12 | THE LEADERSHIP of the Scottish Labour Party yesterday played down talk of division between moderates and a group led by Mr George Galloway who founded Scotland United — a loose grouping of MPs , trades unionists and other prominent personalities — committed to home rule . |
| 13 | A cut down version of Vxfs , Vxfs Lite for file system integrity , is built into all copies of SVR4.2 and UnixWare . |
| 14 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 15 | The Labour Party Conference : Gay rights group wins support over age of consent |
| 16 | He 's not who 's gon na give up Queen of England anyway ? |
| 17 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 18 | One , as it were , to pick out addresses , one to pick out socio-economic groups , one to pick out motor cars , one to pick out number of bedrooms , one to pick out whatever , and trivially or , or superficially everyone says the same thing , a database , it 's on the database , now |
| 19 | Prostacyclin can also bring about disaggregation of platelet aggregates in vitro ( Moncada et al , 1976a ; Ubatuba et al , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | This may bring about degeneration of standards either through communication failures or because succeeding team members lack the pioneering zeal of the original staff . |
| 21 | Beyond summit , bear down slope to left to reach well-defined path below , leading down end of hill to join minor road just right of house . |
| 22 | Captain Jonathon Faulknor handed over command of HMS Impregnable to his sailing master , Michael Jenking , for the final leg of the voyage into Portsmouth harbour . |
| 23 | It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft . |
| 24 | The privatization which handed over administration of benefit payments to employers was the brainchild of Sir Norman do I need to say more ? |
| 25 | Drake easily told by greatly elongated central tail feathers , 4 in. of total length , combined with striking pattern of dark head and throat and white breast and stripe up side of neck . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly the absence of a well thought out scheme of appraisal , including a major element of self-appraisal , followed by professional development programmes , has been a weakness in the personnel policies for education and should be remedied — business has the knowledge and experience to provide valuable assistance in this task . |
| 27 | It features a well thought out line of play which reaped a just reward . |
| 28 | It features a well thought out line of play which reaped a just reward . |
| 29 | Commented NAPF : ‘ It seemed to represent the pinnacle of a well thought out programme of communication between the scheme and the members , providing plenty of notice of change and the opportunity to request further information . |
| 30 | Got out assortment of crayons , pencils , coloured paper . |