Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |
| 2 | The second half of the chapter proposes that whole group work is a working method which develops out of small group work and gives greater coherence to it . |
| 3 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 4 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 5 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 6 | Chris disapproves strongly of artificial methods of rearing , even if it means that he may only get one or two fry from a brood . |
| 7 | Although government capacity to meet expectations has declined , its capacity to meet expectations in the past built up a body of diffuse support , support that now exists independently of particular failures to meet demands . |
| 8 | APRIL 1992 IT 'S four months ago and Johnny , working hard keep up his ‘ financial adviser ’ image , stays out of touching distance as he and Fergie walk out in public during their visit to Phuket in Thailand |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The loss of tax revenues which would otherwise have been received : this consists mostly of lost income tax , but also includes lost indirect taxes because of the reduction in spending . |
| 10 | ‘ My entry for the show consists mostly of young sports clothes , and I do n't have to tell you Dana looks her best in formal outfits . ’ |
| 11 | The formation consists predominantly of quartz-feldspar-mica psammites and semipelites , and the succession contains minor concordant epidiorite bodies that are mappable . |
| 12 | In single storey buildings where the external elevation consists entirely of unprotected areas , and has the necessary space separation the requirements are relaxed for the fire resistance to the elements of structure which support a roof only . |
| 13 | Specimens recovered from the sea floor showed that this ridge consists entirely of volcanic rocks , and similar ridges were soon found to be present beneath many of the oceans . |
| 14 | The East Pacific ( or Nazca ) Plate , between the East Pacific Rise and the west coast of South America , consists entirely of oceanic crust , but the other plate consists of both continental crust ( South America ) and oceanic crust ( the bit of the South Atlantic Ocean floor between South America and the Mid-Atlantic ridge ) . |
| 15 | NME consists entirely of rude words out of other music papers ( eg. ‘ **** ’ ) and stuck on with earwax . |
| 16 | This latter is quite an important point , because although it may not be immediately obvious , a deposit which consists only of large particles can be just as well-sorted as one which consists only of small ones . |
| 17 | This latter is quite an important point , because although it may not be immediately obvious , a deposit which consists only of large particles can be just as well-sorted as one which consists only of small ones . |
| 18 | what is produced consists largely of specific nouns , and verbs are notably under-represented ; |
| 19 | Because the Sun consists mainly of hydrogen , the solar wind consists largely of ionized hydrogen atoms and electrons , that is , of protons and electrons , though overall the solar wind is neutral . |
| 20 | The Mahabharata , Puranas and Upanishads , India 's ancient texts , often cite the Nagas , and in the Atharva Veda which consists largely of magic spells , they are prominent . |
| 21 | This consists largely of cell-wall material from grain and contains between 40 and 50 per cent dietary fibre — a much greater percentage than any other food . |
| 22 | Football : ‘ Volatile ’ Knighton pulls out of United deal |
| 23 | North Korea pulls out of nuclear arms treaty |
| 24 | The final stage of the claim , that BSL consists purely of visual images in the story-teller and that BSL functions only at the visual concrete level , however , goes beyond the information given . |
| 25 | She just appears out of thin air- ’ At this point Mildred broke off and looked around in case she had done just that , but she had n't . |
| 26 | It appears that Lloyd-Webber hopes eventually to house the nascent collection in one wing of a major gallery in the company of his private collection , which consists mainly of Victorian paintings . |
| 27 | If your income consists mainly of taxed investments , then you can set your personal allowances against the income . |
| 28 | Trade between the rich world and the poor consists mainly of developing countries selling cheap raw materials for processing in industrial countries for consumption there . |
| 29 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 30 | In the third stage , production consists mainly of standard models and there is a reluctance to undertake specials . |