Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [noun pl] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries , listening to data , whispering orders . |
| 2 | Material is continually arriving deep within the mass of dead-looking rock , however , and the pressure of this imperceptibly forces up spines of solid lava which rise in jagged battlements along the crest of the dome . |
| 3 | The name remains a legend and mention Bugatti still conjures up moments of sheer magic in those inter-war years on the racing circuits . |
| 4 | The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’ |
| 5 | TO THOSE of us born and bred away from the capital the mention of the name Nine Elms conjures up visions of leafy glades and the home counties . |
| 6 | The very name of one of aviation 's most prized activities conjures up visions of exotic and faraway locations , bright sunshine , sparkling clear seas , white sandy beaches and much else … and to be paid for flying in such surroundings ? |
| 7 | It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to understand the client , ’ said which is why the firm also encourages quarterly meetings where future plans are discussed and the partner assigned to a new client takes along details of other services available which fit perceived needs . |
| 9 | Spring snow has a low-friction surface which opens up acres of gentle offpiste perhaps not steep enough to ski when powder-covered . |
| 10 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 11 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 12 | Gives the impression of being so contemporary but really plays out themes of nineteenth century , badies , goodies , etc . |
| 13 | It throws up sprays of tiny , buttercup-yellow flowers in summer . |
| 14 | The main stack belches out clouds of black smoke . |
| 15 | UNDER not the most comfortable of titles , this follow-up to Twelve Days of Grace ( reviewed WCM Oct '89 ) serves up studies of six further contemporaries of W.G. Grace , all models of far-sweeping research . |
| 16 | The relativist often sets up standards of mutual understanding which are unrealistically high , and when we fail to reach them claims that understanding is impossible . |
| 17 | Guideline 7 , Management , discusses this in more detail and sets out examples of good practice . |
| 18 | Mis–perceptions tend to occur when an individual 's limited capacity to give attention to competing information under stress produces tunnel vision or when a preconceived diagnosis blocks out sources of inconsistent information . |
| 19 | To watch women comfort each other can be a deeply moving experience which rolls back centuries of shared experience of the burden of living . |
| 20 | One trip to Scotland brings back memories of helpful folk . |
| 21 | The substance of the book is a case study of the particular ways in which women 's employment is accommodated within the household and family or in which it brings about changes of various kinds , but its further aim is to explore the structural similarities between the experiences of industrialised India and Western Europe in respect of changing family forms and the position of women . |