Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
| 2 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 3 | If paragliders can at least get away with their sport when safely airborne , since they then take on some element of grace and beauty , the mountain biker will always look a clod . |
| 4 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 5 | In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 8 | What , you may ask , has brought on this fit of choler on my part ? |
| 9 | Conservative governments since 1979 have brought in eight Acts of Parliament which have steadily constrained union power . |
| 10 | Laying down broad belts of asphalt might , by developing thermal convention , lead to increased precipitation . |
| 11 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 12 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 13 | The intention was to close down that area of attack . |
| 14 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 15 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 16 | Because in their terms , the object of the control regime , is to force down aggregate levels of indebtedness , and there are mechanisms wi within which it works which do that . |
| 17 | Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made . |
| 18 | Who brought in that pile of Readers ' Digests ? |
| 19 | Paradigmatic relations , for the most part , reflect the way infinitely and continuously varied experienced reality is apprehended and controlled through being categorised , subcategorised and graded along specific dimensions of variation . |
| 20 | Slavering foxes will be stopped from trotting down 30 miles of tunnel by ten-foot fences , electric ‘ stun mats ' and being shot with humane killers . |
| 21 | I was going to fill in another layer of earth , and then put in some rubbish . " |
| 22 | After all , " he added , smiling at Grace as she brought in another pot of tea , " my poor bewildered senses have already suffered one assault at the hands of your delicious mother . " |
| 23 | It is therefore necessary to bring in another model of style , that of foregrounding , to supplement that of stylistic variants . |
| 24 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 25 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 26 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 27 | Eventually tracking down some bottles of alcohol in the kitchen , she popped her head back around the door to ask Ross what he wanted . |
| 28 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 29 | I do n't want to have a working party , but I 'm wondering if we should lay down some sort of set of timetable and dates . |
| 30 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |