Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 2 | ( b ) It used to be thought that sterilisation ( perhaps only of a man ) without just cause was unlawful as being contrary to the public interest . |
| 3 | We , in our observations so far of a number of teachers using the same program teaching units , have been more impressed by the disparity of the lessons than by their similarity . |
| 4 | Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce . |
| 5 | Teddy all made up to go out was a cross between Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth — her red-gold hair a mass of curls , false eye-lashes long enough to sweep the streets , face entirely out of a box ( courtesy of the American PX ) , and fully fashioned grey silk stockings which were strictly not Waaf issue . |
| 6 | The three legs of the World Cup can take enough out of a horse without subjecting it to too much unnecessary effort beforehand . |
| 7 | This was tolerated as long as they did so out of a sense of liberation at being at home , i.e. through choice not force . |
| 8 | So instead of a bit of ‘ ooh la la , ’ it was mostly ‘ oh what dross ’ as Sky TV viewers joined Chelsea 's biggest League crowd of the season for a game that had promised better things , even without the absent you-know-who . |
| 9 | So instead of a hero 's welcome , he was put in charge as an enemy alien to spend his eighteenth year in an internment camp . |
| 10 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 11 | Then people spoke most easily of a peace between Janab and Bu Zhawa , Ujdaid and Talib , Mannaia and Awlad Amira , Zuwaya and the people of Zliten : groups acting through their representatives made the peace . |
| 12 | From the steep sheep-bitten turf at the head of these cliffs the land slopes gently down towards a glen where the island 's only sizeable river runs seawards out of a loch cupped in a shallow basin among low hills . |
| 13 | Largely out of a sense of duty I search for connexions between the two interests , between the two kinds of female body . |
| 14 | Watts has the technique of being able to get the best out of a horse , whether he is a sprinter or a stayer , yet finding the optimum trip for his horses remains one of the most taxing problems . |
| 15 | Trying to get the best out of a collection of individual heating appliances , or save money by installing new controls on a central heating system ? |
| 16 | How to get the best out of a solicitor . |
| 17 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 18 | The men fell back , or fell down in some cases , and Benny leapt off the edge of the dock just ahead of a swarm of angrily buzzing bullets . |
| 19 | I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve . |
| 20 | Eliot sees London as unusual among big cities in having grown up gradually out of a grouping of villages and concludes that ‘ there is something about England which remains stubbornly attached to the parochial ’ . |
| 21 | If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " . |
| 22 | Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce . |
| 23 | If the lease is to be registered at HM Land Registry and the demised property is part only of a building , then unless the land can be accurately identified on the General Map a plan must be provided ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r54 ) . |
| 24 | Where the property is part only of a building the draftsman should also consider whether some further visual description is necessary . |
| 25 | Where the demised property is part only of a building the right should extend to entering the demised property for the purpose of repairing other parts of the building not included in the demise . |
| 26 | Where the landlord is the owner of other property adjoining the demised property , or where the demised property is part only of a building , the date on which the tenancy is expressed to expire may be of importance . |
| 27 | A yelp of shock escaped her as the door opened forcefully beneath her second assault to reveal a figure straight out of a Viking saga . |
| 28 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 29 | As with socialism , its inherent limitations were as important in this respect as its positive aspects : Luis Recabarren founded his Socialist Workers ' party partly out of a conviction that anarchist prohibitions on party and parliamentary activity were short-sighted and had to be rejected . |
| 30 | Katharine Hamnett 's instinct for kicking against the Establishment comes partly out of the mind-set of her own particular generation , partly out of a reaction to an upper middle-class upbringing . |