Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 2 | H to track the highest ( latest ) versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 3 | The user can specify an issue number or use the default , which is the latest version ; the version number can also be specified as ‘ H ’ to track the highest ( latest ) versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 4 | H — Highest , to track the latest versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 5 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 6 | RUSHES OUT OF THE STABLE |
| 7 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 8 | Occasionally , character steps out of the angular interlocking patterns to hold a bowl or pour from a jug . |
| 9 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 10 | Lilacs out of the dead land , mixing |
| 11 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 12 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 13 | ‘ Who knows , ’ she added , eyes out of the open window , unable to look at Rory for a moment , ‘ it could still come to that . ’ |
| 14 | Rachel Whiteread constructs concrete images out of the invisible space surrounding everyday objects . |
| 15 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 16 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 17 | What Scissormen do is take a series of chaotic noises , disturbed atmospherics and fragments of other people 's music , then hammer melodies and songs out of the cacophonous melée . |
| 18 | A pale yellow lustre was growing low down in the east , making feathery silhouettes out of the black stands of trees along the bends in the river . |
| 19 | He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them . |
| 20 | He noticed the pieces with which Wyvis Hall was furnished , taking books out of the public library on antiques and porcelain and measuring the remembered articles against illustrations , catching his breath sometimes at mounting values . |
| 21 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 22 | The decision 18 months ago of the Spanish government to impose a ban on South African golfers , in the wake of similar action taken during the decade by Sweden , The Netherlands and Belgium , magnified the plight of those South Africans seeking to ply their trade , and earn a living , on the P.G.A . |
| 23 | More generally , therefore , an employee 's initial idea may be several steps ahead of the present state-of-the-art and yet be too far removed from practical and profitable application to be of immediate benefit . |
| 24 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 25 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year |
| 26 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year . |
| 27 | For a membership fee of £1.50 you will * receive priority booking privileges ahead of the general public * be able to take part in various social events organised by the Club * be able to join our volunteers who support the theatre in various publicity activities * gain free membership of The Stage Door Club |
| 28 | Most local authorities now run small family group homes instead of the larger children 's homes common before the 1948 Act . |
| 29 | Conflict between nationalist parties ahead of the Georgian Supreme Soviet elections due on Oct. 28 , centring on plans to pre-empt those elections with an independent poll on Sept. 30 for a rival National Congress , erupted into violence on Sept. 18-19 . |
| 30 | Such references will be used where the entry term is a relatively common term , and where the use of specific entries instead of the one general reference could lead to extensive ( undesirable ) lists of specific references . |