Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The butcher 's was so full , and of course nowhere to sit down while you 're waiting . |
| 2 | MOVES were made by the Bank of England yesterday to head off any problems in financial markets caused by Friday 's bomb attack as leaders of key institutions made extensive efforts to ensure it is ‘ business as usual ’ in the City today . |
| 3 | Belfast City Council is hoping 110,000 people will take part in some form of exercise today to notch up a hat-trick of victories in the international fitness challenge . |
| 4 | She did find an Italian restaurant a couple of blocks away to dine in , however , and there made a point of drinking enough chianti to ensure a good night 's sleep , which her plans for the following day suggested she would need . |
| 5 | Pyramid of Cheops yet to yield up secrets |
| 6 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 7 | More than that he can mash these lists of prospects together to produce delightfully implausible juxtapositions : exercise-bike owners who take educational holidays to the Ukraine ( there are only seven in Greater London ) ; lepers with a penchant for Janet Reger lingerie ( surprisingly enough , several hundred in Roseland alone ) ; Liberal Democrat Nintendo enthusiasts who are also Wagner buffs ( not as many as one might have hoped for ) . |
| 8 | Elsewhere there is a preponderance of older lecturers who have heavy teaching loads , a discouraging success rate for grant applications , and a shortage of people actually to carry out the research , so physics departments have to be very determined indeed to maintain a thriving research programme . |
| 9 | When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room . |
| 10 | Surely there is a lot of ground here to make up if we are to make the machinery of justice as between the two countries more effective . |
| 11 | As this is being written ( in 1985 ) , the publicity given to the case of Jasmine Beckford , who died after she was returned from public care to her parents ' care , will ensure that social workers will once again be reminded of the need to respond to the apparently contradictory demands of society both to intervene effectively and to respect family autonomy . |
| 12 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 13 | Yeah , you 've a lot of a lot of capers still to get up |
| 14 | They are also well aware of the limited ability of detectives simply to go out and detect crime and know but can not easily articulate that the symbolic import of the detection rate is a manipulation ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 16 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 17 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 18 | Which will give you just about the right amount of time then to walk up . |
| 19 | CEDRIC Pioline and Wally Masur produced another round of magic yesterday to conjure up an unlikely meeting in the semi-finals of the US Open . |