Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 2 | Andrew Stavanger stayed on as managing director of the shipping company , with a seat on the board of the group . |
| 3 | DONALD Fothergill has a palpable and daily reminder of the responsibility he has taken on as managing director of Stockton-based Pickerings Lifts . |
| 4 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 5 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 6 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 7 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 8 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 9 | Fr Walter Lini stood down as Prime Minister of Vanuatu on Sept. 6 , following his defeat in a parliamentary vote of confidence . |
| 10 | Tom Frost stepped down as chief executive of National Westminster Bank to help out the latest Department of Trade inquiry into the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 11 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 12 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 13 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 16 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 17 | Well I 'd better , 'cos today — ’ in between massive mouthfuls of toast — ‘ I 've got to make up my tiny mind what I 'm going to do . |
| 18 | Shelley did n't touch the wine , but stuck to the iced water , in between delicious mouthfuls of the fish , which she had to admit was absolute perfection , the best she had ever tasted . |
| 19 | The 320SLi 's power-management features include the ability to configure the BIOS to automatically shut parts of the machine down after specified internals of inactivity . |
| 20 | The author is a past mistress of gushing praise to lull the reader into tabloid deification , then the quiet slipping in of neat doses of vitriol to tarnish her subject and titillate us . |
| 21 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 22 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 23 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 24 | There is no need to weigh yourself down with excessive amounts of toiletries unless you are going to a remote area without either chemists or supermarkets . |
| 25 | The giants washed their breakfasts down with immense tankards of mead and ale and grunted and were inclined to be morose , which seemed to bear out Caspar 's remarks about them not being morning people . |
| 26 | All this was washed down with unlimited quantities of wine , beer , porter and champagne . |
| 27 | The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique . |
| 28 | To be useful , crime rates must be broken down into specific categories of offences . |
| 29 | The broad Shetlander identity can also be broken down into various sorts of identities . |
| 30 | Slowly the total blinding pain broke down into individual centres of hurt . |