Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 2 | Very generally we can categorise what this source produces by way of data into the following elements : first , what people do , their acts and behaviours ; second , the thoughts , beliefs , aspirations , values and motives that people hold ; third , their speech , either verbal or written , which accompanies both of the above . |
| 3 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 4 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 5 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 6 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 7 | Only when the front of the slug passes out of the far end of the pipe does the fraction of the pipe length in laminar motion increase . |
| 8 | It seems likely that access to signing in school prompts the development among children of a ‘ natural ’ sign language which forms the language code , and that this occurs independently of the visual mixture offered by teachers . |
| 9 | This callous view of suffering which smacks strongly of the protestant ethic ( epitomized in the complacent exhortation : God helps those who help themselves ) has a very familiar ring and is clearly seen today in the attitudes towards the mentally ill held by all but the most enlightened members of western societies . |
| 10 | Yet the picture that all this conjures up of a thin red , white and blue line defending civilization and the British sense of ‘ fair play ’ against serried ranks of black barbarians is suddenly counterpointed by an even more arresting image — that of the police themselves who are frightening the local inhabitants of Brixton by whooping like red indians , and beating on their shields like Zulu warriors . |
| 11 | A third approach which grows out of the Latin American situation is the ‘ Theology of Liberation ’ . |
| 12 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 13 | Rolfehedges in the Sussex Weald ‘ hath no demesnes but consisteth onely of a fewe copiholdes ’ — in fact four , containing 91 acres and paying a total of 15s. 8d. annually ; tenure was hereditary and fines limited . |
| 14 | There are pebbles under the feet of Aphrodite 's helpers on the Ludovisi throne ( fig. 83 ) ; and one thinks also of the pebbled floor of the tomb on the Sotades Painter 's cup ( fig. 114 ) , where the ambiguities of time are likewise reminiscent of the Troy . |
| 15 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 16 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 17 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 18 | When a rampant piano breaks out of the ecstatic trance midway through we 're two-nil up before the record 's even half way through and , with the arrival of a melancholy eastern vocal further up the touchline , it 's turning into a whitewash . |
| 19 | As the gas leaks out of the coiled chamber it picks up water and forms a mist around the singer 's head . |
| 20 | The actual rate of inflation stays ahead of the expected rate by a constant margin which , for as long as the unemployment rate is held at U 1 , will never be closed . |
| 21 | The overall circuit winner remained Jeremy Bates who had achieved 38 ATP points out of a possible 40 , with Chris Wilkinson placed second with 37 . |
| 22 | The letter consists mostly of a complicated table of page and reference numbers with prices . |
| 23 | But it must be said that , even with the best garden centres , the range of herbs is not great , and consists mostly of the culinary type . |
| 24 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 25 | In the United States work is being done on a vaccine which consists only of the outer covering of the virus particle and so avoids the dangers of using the virus 's nucleic acid core . |
| 26 | A report appears inside of the Bioplan planning inquiry . |
| 27 | The Tarsus consists primitively of a single segment , a feature which is present in the Protura , Diplura and in some larvae . |
| 28 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 29 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 30 | Castle Coch , a folly built on the site of a 13th century ruin by the Marquess of Bute , rises out of the wooded background . |