Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 2 | John Aubrey Lear , 84 , died after saying farewell to a group of retired friends off on a walk at Reeth in Swaledale , near Richmond . |
| 3 | RSVP co-ordinator Anne Sweeney explained : ‘ There are a lot of retired people out there who have valuable skills to offer to their community through volunteering . |
| 4 | The Commonwealth Immigrants Act came into force in 1962 ; hence from that time onward , the proportion of British-born Caribbeans out of the total Caribbean population of Britain began to rise considerably . |
| 5 | The seventh text is a further condemnation , this time relating to war : ‘ any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly Edward was soon facing increasing demands to accept a number of reforming ordinances along with a commission to implement them ; predictably Gaveston 's exile was the key stipulation . |
| 7 | This prediction failure is , in turn , the result of a series of unanticipated actions by the monetary authorities , that is , unanticipated departures from the policy rule which had governed the conduct of monetary policy down to period . |
| 8 | A wide range of factors shaped how people aligned themselves politically — from personal considerations or considerations of economic self-interest through to political or religious conviction — and the way these factors interrelated could differ over time to produce shifting patterns of popular allegiance . |
| 9 | The third was that the costs of failure in Russia — from civil strife within its borders , up to and including a new international arms race — would be far greater to the rest of the world than the costs of economic failure in , say , Zaire . |
| 10 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 11 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 12 | Lowestoft was by far the biggest , erm and Lowestoft had a peculiar sort of administrative set up because they were what was described as erm a Divisional Executive and erm they had powers over their own committees apart from higher education which in modern parlance is further education . |
| 13 | If a German soldier is killed by the partisans or by civilians , they take a certain number of political prisoners out and shoot them . ’ |
| 14 | There are growing demands for the preservation of this essential element of rural life along with basic public services . |
| 15 | It must be seen , as it undoubtedly was by contemporaries , as the constituent part in the ultimate making of the pope , the shafting of eternal power down to St Peter 's successor . |
| 16 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 17 | You have to say something like ‘ God was always there ’ , and if you allow yourself that kind of lazy way out , you might as well just say ‘ DNA was always there ’ , or ‘ Life was always there ’ , and be done with it . |
| 18 | During the afternoon , he accompanied a clutch of lazy Ixmaritians out to the gardens where they sat in the sun and gossiped . |
| 19 | to elder , sprints of zippy flight in between . |
| 20 | Ameritech Corp 's Cleveland-based Ohio Bell is calling its 8.75% debentures due April 15 2026 : all $125m of aggregate principal out will be redeemed on April 30 1993 by National City Bank of Cleveland at 107% per $1,000 bond , plus accrued interest . |
| 21 | We had a quite vociferous group of Ugandan Asians in . |
| 22 | Hatched-out chicks , shapeless bundles of woolly white down , are fed regurgitated food from crops ; small heads disappear into the gapes of parent birds . |
| 23 | This brief period of anecdotal joviality over with , Sutherland goes back into serious actor mode . |
| 24 | He took a pull on his cheroot and blew a narrow stream of pungent smoke out of those firm , sensual lips . |
| 25 | Will Kampuchea become a land of gentle peace , or is the bad blood from ten years of fratricidal war about to gush in torrents ? |
| 26 | As the residents bring out their used syringes and collect new ones , a neighbour of sorts , a working-class black man who lives in an apartment across the street , brings a bundle of used clothing on to the wasteland . |
| 27 | There 's a lot of strong feeling round here . |
| 28 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 29 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 30 | This is possible where , as in Sterns v. Vickers , the contract is for the sale of unascertained goods out of a specified bulk . |