Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a son who is a booby and who was loafing around his father 's yards waiting only for this young lady to come of age so that he could marry her . |
| 2 | A vicious circle therefore develops of doing less and less exercise . |
| 3 | The small mammals constitute a particular part of the fossil record , usually identified as a group consisting of mammals less than 5 kg in weight . |
| 4 | Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia ! |
| 5 | The arms , legs and buttocks of these children are often stripped of flesh so that the skin hangs in folds . |
| 6 | They went in single file , stooping frequently , clutching a handrope to prevent themselves slipping on the wet stones underfoot , exchanging brief whispers of warning to each other to beware of pothole here or a slimy boulder there . |
| 7 | Since the South Australian legislature expressly rejected the original Bill introduced by the Attorney-General , which would have abolished the immunity altogether , it would seem that an act calculated to humiliate a spouse could not consist of rape alone unless there were additional aggravating circumstances . |
| 8 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has persuaded the Gould Inc subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co Inc — which wanted to be shot of Encore altogether when it bought Gould , but has had to keep the company in the fold and bankroll it to have a chance of realising any value from it — to increase its revolving credit facility by $20m ; the pact also extends the maturity dates of Encore 's $50m term loan agreement to April 2 1995 , and the $35m increased revolving credit pact to July 3 1994 . |
| 9 | Now if there are changes , such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells , which make young animals more efficient , at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence , these changes will be favoured by natural selection , if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old . |
| 10 | ‘ We have not researched the phenomenon extensively , ’ Malengin replied ponderously , ‘ but there are certain aspects that speak of legend rather than fact . ’ |
| 11 | Rush knows the dangers of taking things for granted , and last term 's experience makes him speak of hopes rather than expectations , refusing to make predictions . |
| 12 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the English language seems to find it easier to talk of events rather than processes — and that is the way that we tend to talk . |
| 14 | I 've got the word count from each one I 'll be able to sort of tot up and tell you when to stop collecting from that area . |
| 15 | In 1245 the king accepted his advice that it would be more splendid to have the leopards , which were planned to go beside the throne at Westminster , made of bronze rather than of marble . |
| 16 | It is made of cotton alone or mixed with wool . |
| 17 | We grabbed the baby from her cot and crouched down in the hall of our house , thankful that it is made of concrete rather than wood . |
| 18 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 19 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 20 | The compilers of the new Prayer Book talked of priests rather than ministers , and even incorporated sections of Laud 's 1637 Scottish Prayer Book into the communion rite . |
| 21 | Tales were told of trips abroad and their social pitfalls . |
| 22 | Even The Builder 's apparently factual report was criticized by ‘ One who had peeped behind the scenes ’ for having implied that the earlier delegation of MPs supporting Scott had a lower status because it consisted of amateurs rather than professionals . |
| 23 | Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war . |
| 24 | But he could hardly wait to get rid of Antony so that he could test it . |
| 25 | She rejected all ideas of agreements with other parties and pledged Labour to fight Orange and Green until Derry was ‘ rid of Toryism once and for all . |
| 26 | In town centres , they decided to get rid of cars altogether and invent shopping precincts . |
| 27 | It was with the new strength born of unity then that the Edinburgh Typographical Society presented the employers with its memorial on women workers in November 1909 . |
| 28 | A system which allowed electronic unlocking of cells so that they could use shared toilet facilities seemed preferable to most . |
| 29 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 30 | Yeah there is is There 's an awful lot of suppose so about that you only gon na do one set of calculations rather than two are n't you ? |