Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extensive art exhibition is going on through much of the region giving local talent a showing . |
| 2 | On the A four two three , the Kidlington to Banbury road , they expect delays still to go on through much of the evening due to the traffic lights at Bunkers Hill , and on the A four two one , just south of Bicester , the changes to the road layout at the new M forty interchange has made traffic fairly heavy still . |
| 3 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 4 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 5 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 6 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 7 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 8 | But just as the kettle was coming to the boil a black cloud billowed in through one of the open windows and enveloped the entire tea party . |
| 9 | He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his . |
| 10 | It would certainly be possible for a jackdaw to get in through any of the eight window openings , but then I thought , No . |
| 11 | This figure is then broken down for each of the UK countries . |
| 12 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 13 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 14 | THE 138th Boat Race will go down as one of the classic encounters in the long history of the event . |
| 15 | When we triumph Appleton — do n't forget we shall mark you down as one of the War Criminals : DOWN WITH FACISTS , IMPERIALISTS AND THEIR LOUSY TOOLS . |
| 16 | Madonna is certain that her life and career will go down as one of the landmarks of history . |
| 17 | ‘ That Friday will go down as one of the most — if not the most important days in the history of our sport in this country , ’ said Bob Moffatt , President of Tennis Canada . |
| 18 | It 'll go down as one of the famous unsolved crimes of history . ’ |
| 19 | Er an and the the bloke who did it erm has got to go down as one of the ratbags of the year . |
| 20 | This game ; this day will go down as one of the blackest . |
| 21 | ENTRIES are pouring in for one of the region 's biggest sponsored cycling events — the Tour de Tendring , which will be held on May 9 . |
| 22 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted to use the presence of the guitar more aggressively , ’ says Lindsey , ‘ not only in solos and in the classical bits in between some of the songs , but in terms of what was actually driving the songs . |
| 24 | Ellis compared the brands of the animal to the claimant 's name , and if he was satisfied , as he was in about two-thirds of the cases , he issued the claimant a certificate of ownership . |
| 25 | This state can be induced in about three-quarters of the population ; the rest for some unknown reason can not achieve it even if they wish to do so . |
| 26 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 27 | If you were to script this sequence , these are the size descriptions that you would write down against each of the shots . |
| 28 | If they do so they will find a small lady 's reticule which has slipped down behind one of the seat coverings . |
| 29 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 30 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |