Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 2 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |
| 3 | His captain , Gooch , thinks highly of the 21-year-old from Watford and his continuing fitness will be crucial to Essex hopes of retaining the county championship . |
| 4 | We Repeat regardless of the ADF aspect , this accident should never have happened . |
| 5 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | In a brain bigger than a city , with geological slowness , He thinks only of the Weight . |
| 7 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 8 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 9 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 10 | Some , though knowing the terms of the Act of Settlement , or of the similar statute now in force , steer clear of the problem because they are afraid of it . |
| 11 | Steer clear of the weir , safer to fish from the pier . |
| 12 | She was reminded forcibly of the air of absolute power that he projected so effortlessly in his professional life . |
| 13 | The W algorithm was designed to be more breadth-first , and more consistent results were expected regardless of the input conditions . |
| 14 | Baumol 's theory of contestable markets states that consumer welfare can be maximised regardless of the number of firms in an industry , as long as it is greater than one . |
| 15 | Construction of hydroelectric dams not only removes the opportunity for adjacent populations to interbreed , it also utterly changes the characteristics of the river , with siltation and often stagnation occurring upstream of the barrier . |
| 16 | Team Costa Rica could not have won regardless of the parachuting , having lost one team member to injury on the penultimate day . |
| 17 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 18 | Out-and-out stayer Belmount Captain , unsuited by the slow early gallop at Ascot last time , looks best of the remainder . |
| 19 | Temperature was talked of in the context of some hundreds of millions of degrees Centigrade , necessary for the stripping away of the electron from the hydrogen atom , vital for the removal of the hydrostatic repulsive forces of the nuclei , leaving them free to collide . |
| 20 | The court only gives leave to serve interrogatories if necessary for disposing fairly of the action , or for saving costs , and before giving leave will consider whether particulars , admissions , or production of documents have been offered ( RSC Ord 26 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 22 | Second , everything you draw is an object that can be selected , moved , reshaped or deleted independently of the rest . |
| 23 | I am reminded here of the book on chaos already mentioned in the Preface ( Gleick , 1987 ) : it describes how turbulence can be created from a stable physical state . |
| 24 | Reform tends now to be seen not as treatment which is imagined to work independently of the will of the offender , but as measures which enable or assist rather than force offenders to improve their behaviour — or , in Norval Morris ' terms , ‘ facilitated change ’ rather than ‘ coerced cure ’ ( Morris , 1974 : 13–20 ) . |
| 25 | Bolivian political parties rejected a statement of Jan. 27 , 1990 , from Chile 's Foreign Minister-designate Enrique Silva Cimma that problems with Bolivia could be solved independently of the sea outlet issue . |
| 26 | Most Mods were n't gay — although Peter Burton writes well of the cross-over between the two sub-cultures — but to any person unfamiliar with their ideas about pleasure and self , they certainly looked it : ‘ Mods were more interested in themselves and each other than in girls … there was a time when Mod boys used make-up and mascara ’ . |
| 27 | Most of the album itself heads nowhere of the sort . |
| 28 | In the case of real assets , the expected return may be less certain ( i.e. riskier ) but potentially greater as , for example , if property values are expected to soar ahead of the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | It does not appear to offer any definite predictions for the future , the road that lies ahead of the crossroads . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , she had to retrace her steps several times , though she still made sure to pick routes which moved ahead of the breeze . |