Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have an orange badge and you wish to park on the John Radcliffe Hospital site , you can park free of charge just as you would in one of the Council 's car parks park free of charge . |
| 2 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 3 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
| 4 | It is too redolent of rooms upstairs and days gone by . |
| 5 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 6 | Negatively this principle denies that comprehensive rationality is possible , because it requires information processing and computation capacities only possible of God rather than mortals ( Simon 1957a , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | Surely it is not the scientists who are guilty of hubris here but their accusers , in implying that humans could play God . |
| 8 | The accused was guilty of manslaughter even though he did not direct his attack at the victim . |
| 9 | Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted . |
| 10 | The House of Lords held in Lawrence that a person was guilty of theft even when the owner has consented to the taking of the property . |
| 11 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 12 | Since science 's primary role is that of commentator rather than practitioner , the set of transformation rules and practices by which the radical 's dilemma is resolved have taken a special form . |
| 13 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 14 | His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially . |
| 15 | The ‘ dialectic ’ here was that of Kierkegaard rather than Hegel . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |
| 17 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 18 | By listening in to these , guinea fowl could hear storms hundreds of kilometres away and so have advance warning of a change in the weather . |
| 19 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 20 | And even though each individual temperate tree may support a host of other species ( scores of different insects on an oak , for example ) the total list of temperate forest animals is also many hundreds of times lower than in tropical forests . |
| 21 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 22 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 23 | At a polling station in Kompong Cham , a photographer confronted by the sight of hundreds of voters rather than piles of corpses , spun on his heels and announced , ‘ This whole thing is a farce . ’ |
| 24 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 25 | EC commitments kept John Major 's Mr Europe hundreds of miles away when 26-year-old Julian asked sweetheart Anna to marry him . |
| 26 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 27 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 28 | I wonder what travellers did hundreds of years ago when there were no proper roads and no streetlights or signposts ? ’ |
| 29 | The Black Hairstreak was at it 's height hundreds of years ago when this was all Royal Forest.Enthusiasts hope with the right care this King of butterflies wll once again rule the woodlands of Oxfordshire . |
| 30 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |