Example sentences of "of [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |
| 2 | ‘ And too many sailors target the very sought-after minority of waterside properties , ’ whereas they can live on the outskirts of somewhere like Truro or surrounding areas ( where new five-bedroom executive houses have dropped to around £90,000 from £140,000 and large Victorian detached houses are £110,000 ) and have moorings within a couple of miles ' reach . |
| 3 | erm er it might be sort of rather like archaeology you know er |
| 4 | We do n't know the exact date of birth of any early medieval king before Charles ( nor of most for centuries afterwards ) . |
| 5 | So it 's very much body language that is actually directive , sort of right up people 's noses quite often very , very close to people yeah ? |
| 6 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 7 | and the Sunday morning sort of all round Paris and all that . |
| 8 | The hair at his groin was blue-black , and there the serpent lay , which she knew of only from literature , a rape , and the daft little things of little boys in childhood . |
| 9 | Intarsia is normally thought of only in terms of four-ply jumpers but is also effective using finer yarns such as would be used for the vest top or T-shirts . |
| 10 | Leadership , however , is not to be thought of only in terms of resistance to the crown . |
| 11 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ A half of best for Mr O'Dell ! ’ |
| 13 | Best of Opposite Sex Following the selection of Best of Breed and Best of Winners , all the winners of the opposite sex to Best of Breed remain in the ring . |
| 14 | Just in brackets , sort of just in pencil or Euro or something . |
| 15 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 16 | Erm I 'm not sure what time yet but erm it 's more likely to be sort of just before lunch or just sort of or maybe just after lunch or round four o'clock I try to keep the younger ones earlier so they 're not you know it 's not |
| 17 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 18 | I have evidence that you wash in excess of once per week . ’ |
| 19 | Amy 's is still at school , so that 's four I can think of still at school . |
| 20 | sort of like for ages |
| 21 | Well I mean the sort of like in Reading will probably only call once every blue moon Yeah but you 've got a situation where there 's and and sort of and th she 's not gon na tell is she ? th what 's going on |
| 22 | He 'd knock you about and swear at you and everything , but , you know , he makes you feel sort of more at home . ’ |
| 23 | Because of the Bank Holiday , the hearing resumes at 2pm instead of 10am on Tuesday , when local authorities ' barristers take the floor . |
| 24 | This is an ensemble show in the RSC 's great tradition of Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables ( Caird was co-director of both with Trevor Nunn ) and it could well repeat their success at the box office . |
| 25 | The process of development between Eqs ( 5.1 ) and ( 5.8 ) have transformed the Markowitz Tobin model , and the expected return of a security can now be thought of solely in terms of its relationship with the expected market rate of return . |
| 26 | However , the fact that the Bank of England refused to intervene when the pound came under pressure left some analysts speculating that predictions of an October shortfall of upwards of £1.8billion were too pessimistic . |
| 27 | The states face a combined budget deficit of upwards of $30 billion , on the basis of Federal Reserve figures . |
| 28 | Consistency suggests placing assessments of upwards of £300 , comprising the very rich , in a separate category , as the base point for the higher rate of 133 per cent in the loan of 1522 , making a total liability of 28⅝ per cent . |
| 29 | When , for example , God is thought of as like light , the metaphor is meant to bring into play all kinds of overtones and ideas which can help the user to a greater understanding of the word God : light shares some characteristics which can be applied to God — but ones which can not be neatly packaged up in literal words . |
| 30 | However , for those in the higher echelons of government it was a period of seemingly near apocalypse . |