Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys . |
| 2 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 3 | Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is expressly limited to replacement of the diskette as provided above . |
| 4 | Resochin was not pursued at that time , but both compounds were duly registered for purposes of patenting . |
| 5 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 6 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 7 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 8 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 9 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 10 | This provincial brumaire was bitterly criticized by civilians of the Central Junta : Jovellanos could neither forgive nor forget Romana 's ‘ tyranny ’ . |
| 11 | There are changes — the numbers were exceptionally high , as the hon. Gentleman graphically indicated just now — but still no one could claim that Northern Ireland was badly placed in respect of our proposals . |
| 12 | Differences in strike commitment are liable to be more effectively explained in terms of such variables as the culture of each coalfield , traditional loyalties to the area or national levels of the union and the type of lead given by branch and area officials at the outset of the dispute . |
| 13 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 14 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 15 | Gennery says that information on the dangers were ‘ verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 ’ . |
| 16 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 17 | All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin . |
| 18 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 19 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 20 | His journey took him through Austrasia , where he was hospitably received by members of the aristocracy . |
| 21 | The Big Houses in the district were now mostly inhabited by people of his uncle 's generation . |
| 22 | A dynastic struggle conducted under the hovering threat of Turkish occupation eventually led to Ferdinand of Habsburg gaining the throne , but his effective authority existed over only a fragment of Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia . |
| 23 | No doubt there will be some complicated arguments about the concept of recklessness in the civil courts since this concept , commonplace in the criminal courts , is rarely paraded in front of the civil judge . |
| 24 | In 100 women undergoing termination of pregnancy , coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in 96% of cases at 6–10 weeks ' gestation , 42% at 11 , and 10% at 12 weeks . |
| 25 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 26 | He hoped eventually to concentrate on diseases of the mind so he was constantly analysing people 's actions . |
| 27 | Not out of the radio sets themselves , mind you , but — about a month after legalization — he flogged cassette tapes on ‘ How to keep a conversation going on CB ’ , with a follow-up manual listing good ‘ handles ’ ( mostly pinched from Lord of the Rings ) for Citizen Banders with absolutely no imagination . |
| 28 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |
| 29 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 30 | By speaking on behalf of their constituents they occasionally thereby disagree with aspects of party policy ( 8 per cent ) . |