Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 2 | In a limited company the death or bankruptcy of a member ( or even of all the members ) has no effect on the existence of the company . |
| 3 | At Amis 's stage of existence , the options were narrowing fast and he knew that out of all the possibilities , wonderful was hardly the most likely . |
| 4 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 5 | And perhaps of all the elements that can be used in a garden , water is the most fascinating . |
| 6 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 7 | What hair that is left on my head became steam that wisped past my left eye , a ball that has bounced in and out of many a brain cover . |
| 8 | Charlotte and Luke had managed school perfectly well , had made friends , had slipped effortlessly in and out of all the required fads and fashions . |
| 9 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 10 | Road in Toten , that 's the A six double O five has got roadworks at the junction of Lane , some delays in busy periods and the A fifty two , there 's roadworks on the northbound carriageway at Clifton Bridge , there are diversions there for A fifty two traffic heading for Drive as well , sort of weave your way in and out of all the cones that are up there , the the cone monster 's been in the night . |
| 11 | There would be confusion , Bruce thought , and out of this a strong ruler would need to emerge . |
| 12 | Thus , when buying or selling barley , they take account of the supplies of such things as sugar , which can be used as substitutes for it in brewing , and again of all the various feeding stuffs , a scarcity of which might raise the value of barley for consumption on the farm . |
| 13 | Then last weekend at Thruxton he showed his true potential when he finished second behind Australian Russ Ingall 's Van Diemen , and ahead of all the other Swift drivers . |
| 14 | They knew more of their purpose here than they had been told , but not of all the details in the secret file in the safe in John Coffin 's flat . |
| 15 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 16 | However as Pacione ( 1984,145 ) observes : ‘ few models have been constructed to explain the population turnaround ’ , but out of these the model produced by Lewis and Maund ( 1976 ) and shown in Figure 5.4 may fit the present situation as described by Moseley ( 1983 ) in Table 5.4 the most closely . |