Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , if you ask me , there 's as much goes on in most of these valleys as there ever used to be . ’ |
| 2 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 3 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 4 | Gabby died in 1980 , but the spirit of his music lives on through three of his sons , Cyril , Bla and Martin . |
| 5 | The most renowned of the family was Reginald who won international fame as a collector of rare and exotic plants from the countries of the Far East and whose name lives on in several of his discoveries . |
| 6 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 7 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 8 | ‘ At peak times , that adds up to millions of viewers , ’ said a survey spokesman . |
| 9 | ‘ At peak times , that adds up to millions of viewers , ’ said a survey spokesman . |
| 10 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 11 | Cilla Black as she looks back at some of the funniest moments in the success of her matchmaking series . |
| 12 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 13 | She stops , too upset to carry on , and sneaks back into one of the ground-floor apartments to wash and put on her pyjamas for bed . |
| 14 | Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states . |
| 15 | Bourner and Hamed ( 1987 ) in their study of CNM graduates have reported that degree performance improves with age until students reach the age of about 40 and then declines back towards that of younger students . |
| 16 | The World Bank reckons that on most measures of welfare it ranks down with much of sub-Saharan Africa , and only a bit above Haiti . |
| 17 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 18 | It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas . |
| 19 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 20 | It shows up on one of the pictures — and I think that 's the only bit of pain he got from that . ’ |
| 21 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 22 | After more adventures , the story ends up at another of Tom 's aunts , with Jim ( the nigger ) recaptured , Finn mistaken for Tom , and Tom turning up pretending to be his own brother ! |
| 23 | ‘ Classic Italian elegance that harks back to one of the greatest ever Ferraris , the Daytona ’ |
| 24 | One of these elements turns up in each of one 's conscious episodes , or is of a kind such that each of one 's conscious episodes contains an instance of the kind . |
| 25 | People will vary enormously as to how their bodies tolerate these dietary items and you will learn in Stage II of the diet how your body gets on with some of these . |
| 26 | But the government shielded consumers from the worst excesses of inflation by reducing the community charge burden , and businesses kept their price rises down to one of the lowest levels for 24 years . |
| 27 | Another problem which was uncovered during the planning process relates back to one of the variables which Jones suggested that government predictions had not taken fully into account . |
| 28 | Time moves on for all of us and the next day we were homeward bound , hoping , like Peer Gynt , to return some day . |
| 29 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 30 | The article is written by Dr Rafael Roncagliolo of the Latin American Institute ( IPAL ) in Peru , and follows up on some of the convictions expressed at a meeting of Latin American communicators which was organised by IPAL and WACC last year . |