Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun pl] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , Thomas , and Richard , all carried on branches of the business and the designation ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ is applied to them all . |
| 2 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 3 | Sitting on the edge of her bed and sipping her tea , she began jotting down notes of the day 's events , separating them into facts and possible explanations . |
| 4 | The Piaroa , a jungle people who dwell along tributaries of the Orinoco in Venezuela , equate the value judgement of ‘ good ’ with that of ‘ the tranquil ’ : both carry the label of ‘ adiwa ’ . |
| 5 | What I want you to do between now and the end of the lesson , ah , wait for it , in your rough books , ah I want you to start writing down ideas of the things that are important to you , but before we do that , let's just have a few starters on the board , let's have some hands up . |
| 6 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 7 | As we stumble in , Mad Richard from Verve is inadvertently pulling down chunks of the ceiling . |
| 8 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 9 | He wrote down instances of the construction immediately after hearing it , supplementing this data source with material from broadcast speech and a limited amount of tape-recorded data . |
| 10 | Last night , as amazed East Berliners looked on , East German soldiers and building workers began knocking down sections of the Wall . |
| 11 | I sent one of my boys to the Guildhall , they sent down constables of the ward . |
| 12 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 13 | Moreover , candidates for election form parties : the purpose of a party is to win an election , or , in Qaddafi 's words , ‘ to rule over non-members of the party ’ ( chapter I , ‘ The party ’ ) . |
| 14 | A few other authorities have taken over elements of the scheme . |
| 15 | And ‘ in no sense should voluntary bodies partly or wholly relying on fundraising and volunteer help take over elements of the core work of the public services . ’ |
| 16 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 17 | Erm the the leader of the of , of , of the group is , is the focus and as Dean has said and as Joy explained , takes over functions of the individual 's ego , super ego . |
| 18 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 19 | He turned over passages of the interview as he drove back to Regent 's Park Road , committing them to memory for later recitation . |
| 20 | Anglian Water refused to hand over details of the document . |
| 21 | Swedish courts will soon decide whether a bank is within its rights in handing over details of the finances of their clients to the local tax authorities , in defiance of a ban imposed by the data protection committee . |
| 22 | In the autumn of 1342 Edward III himself did so , winning over parts of the duchy and leaving Englishmen in many of the castles and garrisons , including Brest , the port destined to remain in friendly hands for much of the next half century or so . |
| 23 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 24 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |
| 25 | Bobo was breaking off pieces of the banana , rolling them around with her lips . |
| 26 | The weathervane , a stainless steel fox , was removed for safe keeping , the children pulled off pieces of the garlands for souvenirs and the hole in the road was filled in . |
| 27 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 28 | But a record company spokesman laughed off rumours of the split saying : ‘ The band are busy making plans for the future . ‘ |
| 29 | Klein suggests that ‘ The process of splitting off parts of the self and projecting them into objects are thus of vital importance for normal as well as for abnormal object relations . |
| 30 | ( Sometimes such a merger may be partially financed by selling off parts of the company — see later in the chapter . ) |