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 | It is too redolent of rooms upstairs and days gone by . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Surely it is not the scientists who are guilty of hubris here but their accusers , in implying that humans could play God . |
| 6 | The accused was guilty of manslaughter even though he did not direct his attack at the victim . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |
| 10 | for when you 've got a simple straightforward of X. Like if I said , Y equals X squared plus two , you just differentiate it straight off by doing each term like that . |
| 11 | Birds are great memory joggers , evocative of times past and places visited . |
| 12 | We 're no less serious of purpose today but we may now seem a little less po-faced . |
| 13 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
| 14 | Indeed , the government recently criticized those resourceful street-corner repair shops , where a spare part can be created with the most basic of equipment rather than ordered from a factory . |
| 15 | Six years of bringing up Charlotte and Luke with chicken wire tacked across inside their bedroom window , and a security system worthy of Alcatraz so that the parishioners who needed to get to you never could . |
| 16 | The force of this interpretation is further strengthened by Mary Douglas 's observation that Lele women who produce twin births are compared to animals , since multiple births are characteristic of animals rather than of humans . |
| 17 | But Floy said , in an expressionless tone , ‘ Do go on , ’ and Caspar looked at Floy doubtfully , because he was not altogether sure of Floy yet and he had the feeling that Floy might very well be thinking and assessing and generally not revealing all his feelings . |
| 18 | He took hundreds of photographs and Katy thought Cousin Jane and Mike must be tired of photographs too because they climbed into a white car and the car drove away while the man kept clicking his camera again and again . |
| 19 | They are confident of doing better than their 6–1 failure against Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 20 | Some urban gardeners , as short of space inside as they are out , want their gardens to be extensions of their homes , with a great deal of hard paving , good furniture and lighting . |
| 21 | Recently our special commendation has been awarded to shops which have shown particular kindness to customers , This month 's winners are certainly not short of kindness either but it was the general all-round excellence of their business that made Tessa Brown of Mansfield recommend the Ollerton Machine Knitting Centre for our Gold St*r . |
| 22 | ‘ She started to grow very short of breath then and the decline was more and more rapid until she could not walk or move around . |
| 23 | Finally , note that arranging the poles and zeros to be coincident makes the Laplace transform independent of s so that the network behaves as an attenuator . |
| 24 | Because the frequencies of all the components are well below the critical frequency , the phase shift β is always small enough to make the approximation or Corresponding to the phase shift there is a time delay per section given by The crucial point to emerge from equation ( 9.33 ) is that the delay is almost independent of frequency so that all Fourier components of the signal experience virtually the same delay and the signal is transmitted , delayed but virtually undistorted , as well as virtually unattenuated . |
| 25 | Completely neglecting R compared with and G compared with in the interest of simplicity , it follows from equations ( 9.77 ) and ( 9.81 ) that Observe that the characteristic impedance is purely resistive in the lossless approximation while the attenuation constant , α , is zero and the phase velocity , , is which is independent of frequency so that dispersion is absent . |
| 26 | These parties claim that they are different from traditional Marxist — Leninist parties in three major respects : they are critical of certain aspects of the Soviet Union ; they are independent of Moscow so that if they were to win an election and form a government they would not be Soviet puppets ; and they claim that it is possible to implement communism and maintain traditional democratic institutions . |
| 27 | Here the integrand is independent of t so that one conservation law is so that . |
| 28 | My own mind seemed full of memories already and I could n't imagine storing away the new ones as years and years went by . |
| 29 | Coffin 's eyes met Gabriel 's , hers full of meaning so that he looked away sharply . |
| 30 | ‘ It is full of rubbish even though the Labour group gave a commitment to keep it clean . |