Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly EP involves dynamic on-line documents rather than nicely formatted pieces of paper . |
| 2 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |
| 3 | He was , Owen judged , about fourteen , a little below medium height and slim , although already showing signs of broadening out like his uncle . |
| 4 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
| 5 | There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas . |
| 6 | ‘ As the lady Anne is aware — and to her chagrin — I have more than once expressed admiration of her companion . |
| 7 | Members hope to convince Mr Milburn that he should be targeting criminals who find it easier than ever to get hold of an unlicensed firearm . |
| 8 | In practice it has involved efforts to cut the size of the public enterprise sector and to make the remainder more efficient and more attentive to financial rather than public service criteria of viability . |
| 9 | Central direction has increased since 1979 but local authorities are far more than simply field agents of central government departments . |
| 10 | Actually some bats play a trick that is more interesting than simply emitting hoots of constant pitch and measuring the pitch of the returning echoes . |
| 11 | It is obviously easier to offer social analysis of a formal institution , with its regularized type of internal organization , and its commonly regulated relations to the rest of society , than even to begin analysis of the relatively informal associations which have been so important in modern cultural life . |
| 12 | These are habits that must now be reworked to meet threats that are vaguer , more elusive and spread across more of the world than precisely identified units of the Soviet army . |
| 13 | Journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington post filed innumerable stories , often drawn from anonymous sources , and including less than completely substantiated allegations of criminal behaviour by public officials . |
| 14 | They 're , they 're , they 're put well , they 're supposed to be putting swear words in it , stuff like that you know so They they just want ordinary common or garden speech cos basically to help sort of like English students actually coming to this country you know ? |
| 15 | It is of vital importance to the successful operation of the police that they should have the co-operation of the public and they 're much more likely to get it if democratically elected representatives of the public are well represented indeed in the majority at least on the police authority . |
| 16 | The DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 17 | THE ANCIENT BARNS , cow sheds , granaries and other agricultural buildings of the countryside are a vital if perhaps under-appreciated part of Britain 's architectural heritage . |
| 18 | I most scrupulously carried out my promise to her , despite the dishonest if well meant advice of various people who suggested that I should deposit her letters in a great library . |
| 19 | In this connection s 28 of the SGA should be noted ; unless otherwise agreed delivery of the goods and payment of the price are concurrent conditions , and must therefore occur at the same time . |
| 20 | Indra , while still retaining traces of his ‘ weather ’ origin , is no longer , to borrow Miss Harrison 's descriptive phrase , ‘ an automatic explosive thunder-storm , ’ he wields the thunderbolt certainly , but he appears in heroic form to receive the offerings made to him , and to celebrate his victory in a solemn ritual dance . |
| 21 | A clear first chapter provides an outline of the theory of evolution while wisely leaving mention of the punctuated equilibrium model of evolutionary change for a later chapter . |
| 22 | It would enable a third State to stand aloof from the deliberate fashioning of community policy through the treaty-making process , while simultaneously making claims of the creation of norms of customary law . |
| 23 | Her evidence pointed out that existing technology such as catalytic converters for cars , while indirectly reducing levels of the greenhouses gases ozone ( at ground level ) and methane , has no effect on carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) . |
| 24 | Previous films about the Dutch painter have tried to circumvent this problem in various ways : Vincente Minnelli 's Lust For Life cast Kirk Douglas as the tortured artist and used broad , melodramatic strokes ; Paul Cox 's reverential Vincent used only extracts from Van Gogh 's letters ; Robert Altman 's Vincent And Theo dished the dirt on Van Gogh 's quixotic personality while never losing sight of his extraordinary artistic gift . |
| 25 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 26 | After initially denying knowledge of any kickbacks paid by Fiat to win public-sector contracts in Italy , Cesare Romiti , the firm 's managing director , is now under formal investigation for corruption and illicit financing of political parties . |
| 27 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 28 | THERE WAS a fin de siecle air in London 's clubland last night — flames danced in the rarely used gas lanterns along Pall Mall as elegantly dressed members of the Institute of Directors , the Athenaeum , Reform and Travellers ’ Clubs digested the implications of early poll results . |
| 29 | As such it is this realm which is seen as eventually dominating forms of social and personal life and the progress ( or otherwise ) of localities . |
| 30 | An officer dealing with a straightforward case of theft has to complete at least twenty documents as well as laboriously transcribe tapes of interviews . |