Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 2 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 3 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 4 | The Leathercloth works and the numerous smaller scale chemical firms around the Lea also continued to expand , although size and density of settlement never quite matched that of the south . |
| 5 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 6 | Two Merseyside writers , Terry Adams and Paul Goetzee , will have new plays Shadows of My Father and Act of Faith respectively professionally performed at Britain 's leading platform for new writing . |
| 7 | Yet historical interpretation of literature fairly easily loses sight of literary interests ; if it goes far enough , the interpreter may assume that the idea of poetry or drama as art can be abandoned , since what counts are cultural traces , of whatever kind , and the ideological impressions they appear to bear . |
| 8 | And to justify the ways of God to men with such honesty , that is to say with such a complete account of what the price is which would have to be paid , is of course no longer to justify but to enact the actual conflict . |
| 9 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |
| 10 | Snails ' shells are of course also asymmetrically coiled , so the hermit crab has plainly had to adapt its own anatomy in order to fit into its adopted shelter . |
| 11 | The manual job thus reduces to filling the carousel with panels or sub-assemblies every 20 minutes or so , and is of course only loosely machine paced . |
| 12 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 13 | The decision in G. v. G. is of course now well known , but I reiterate it , since the matter has been raised in this case , that is that even if the appellate court would itself have preferred a different conclusion it must leave the decision of first instance undisturbed unless it could say the decision was wrong . |
| 14 | These positions are often classified as ( a ) idealist and ( b ) materialist , though it should be noted that in ( b ) materialist explanation is commonly reserved to the other , ‘ primary ’ , activities , leaving ‘ culture ’ to a version of the ‘ informing spirit ’ , of course now differently based and not primary but secondary . |
| 15 | This point of view was of course almost universally accepted in the nineteenth century , and is repeated endlessly . |
| 16 | Nor are the damns always so faint , though they are of course almost always uttered with that tendentious hindsight which devalues protest unless it proclaims class warfare and anticipates the emergence by the twentieth century of political parties created to prosecute it . |
| 17 | The à la glace or freezing method was invented by Armand Walfart in 1884 and is still the method of dégorgement most commonly used today . |
| 18 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 19 | It is insufficient to call for a simple ‘ left-right ’ divide of media power since the traditional ‘ magnetic poles ’ of ideology no longer attract so strongly . |
| 20 | Would n't it be a greater waste of money though now having got the thing there though to shift it out the way completely Dorothy ? |
| 21 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
| 22 | The few women members of parliament hardly ever raised controversial issues to do with women and the family , instead the principal of equality was ‘ officially proclaimed ’ . |
| 23 | Purity demands for legislation against prostitution , brothel-keeping and other acts of immorality often explicitly addressed problems posed by the culture of the urban poor and the difficulties of keeping public order on the streets . |
| 24 | Think for a moment of that simultaneity of action very often met with between singers , chorus , dancers and orchestra … |
| 25 | The involvement of children as viewers or participants in material classed as indecent or obscene presents a species of harm almost universally acknowledged . |
| 26 | After 32 years I continue to enjoy my Medau by doing three classes a week — with Myrtle Mott at Plumstead , with Elsie Streek at Alderwood School and with Bridget at Sidcup and I must say that this form of movement has given me a great deal of pleasure so LONG LIVE MEDAU . |
| 27 | The moment of penetration no longer has the aura of an earth-shaking moral event in a person 's life . |
| 28 | As in the legal definition , the interactionist conception of crime also implicitly portrays it as something that ordinary people are likely to want to do . |
| 29 | In the passive , verbs of perception almost always take the to infinitive : ( 59 ) He was seen to enter the building at 10:00 . |
| 30 | It had been made in Austria , I believe , of wool so densely woven as to be impervious to rain . |