Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She wanted to be in the land of make-believe as often and as long as possible … dealing with people and things according to imagination 's formulas , ’ her son Vivian said of her . |
| 2 | Although invariably fewer , smaller , and less multifunctional than central governmental departments , the differences are relative and problems of co-ordination both within and between departments are nevertheless frequently found within local authorities . |
| 3 | Cross it over , round the back , and back up to the front again , do a reef knot here and tuck your ends in straight away of course like so and then this little bit can just be tucked up where you 've crossed the two ends and make it look neater with no ends hanging out , no that , all that does is keep the dressing secure , keep infection out , okay ? |
| 4 | But she fears bureaucracy may have delayed the day of judgement even further and it may not be June until judgement is given . |
| 5 | My mum , as mums tend to do , had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly and moved over to the bed in a thoughtful kind of way . |
| 6 | The first evidence that this was on its way was noticed towards the end of March , when a patch of snow just below and to the south of the Main Crater began to melt , and simultaneously , activity in the North-East Crater began to die down . |
| 7 | This part is made from a piece of plexiglass slightly longer and wider than the column . |
| 8 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 9 | Provided I could hit the patches of sand quickly enough and keep the momentum , the wheel would skate across . |
| 10 | First , criminal law relates closely to other branches of law both substantively and theoretically . |
| 11 | She would lift a corner of curtain up now and again , imagine she had a blaster with sights attachment , and use her would be playmates for target practice as they leapfrogged and hopscotched around the courtyard below . |
| 12 | They take the book of Revelation more literally and believe the second coming of Christ is imminent . |
| 13 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 14 | Cattle trucks made the transport of meat both faster and easier . |
| 15 | It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going . |
| 16 | This was done successfully through the use of patois both defensively and offensively by the group . |
| 17 | However , their pattern of usage both inside and outside ICI is rather more complex than that of , say , ethylene or benzene . |
| 18 | In considering patterns of morbidity both within and between populations it is usual to distinguish between acute and chronic health problems . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) They had accelerated the process of development too rapidly and their hard currency |
| 20 | The bill had been the subject of months of debate both inside and outside the National Assembly . |
| 21 | It 's a world of mud out there and you have |
| 22 | For example , to maintain channels of communication both upwards and downwards ; to monitor their effectiveness and advise on any necessary improvements ; to refine and advise on messages from senior management to employees ; to advise staff on communication techniques and messages . |
| 23 | Since health education is an area which is of concern both inside and outside school , the co-ordinator has to be a person with sufficient status to be at ease with parents , health agencies , other sectors of education , and to take decisions which cut across stages and subjects . |
| 24 | So y y y you , you , you , you 've got at least three things which are all sort of brewing up there and you think good grief what a , what a , what a state to be in because the poor doctor does n't know what on earth to do , poor Jan does n't know , well it 's worse for Jan cos she 's sitting there thinking I 'm going potty or , you know , ca n't stand properly or you know is leaning over or , or numb down one side of her face or , or or whatever it was , it was i i it was the , the dizziness I think actually which which was most alarming . |
| 25 | So what 's happening is a lot of rumour out there and a lot of people who think that this is a wonderful opportunity to make ten per cent on the deal . |
| 26 | Just at the beginning of the century there came two new techniques , which reduced the price of illustration very considerably and brought visual language into the more ordinary works of science and natural history . |
| 27 | The fact that we can read all of these photographic versions of reality so easily and with such conviction is perhaps not the least astonishing feature of photography now . |
| 28 | Parents and teachers , like writers of computer programmes , build certain sorts of information more deeply and irreversibly than others into their systems ( children ) ; in the idiom of computer engineers they hard-programme them . |
| 29 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 30 | Although promoters may employ reputable consultants , it is difficult for a consultant to a project to put all the disadvantages from the environmental point of view as thoroughly and firmly as would be done by a totally neutral person . |