Example sentences of "of [det] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attach blank copies of each together with some experimentally ( and possibly inaccurately ) filled in . |
| 2 | Gather up the red , blue , green and yellow fondant trimmings , keep a little piece of each aside for the counters , and then press together . |
| 3 | No there was none of that near in our time . |
| 4 | I 'll give a , a further example of that later in the lecture . |
| 5 | He had not attempted to draw , Harry was aware of that even in the heat of his attack , and it enraged him past measure and gave him strength beyond normal . |
| 6 | I 've in fact printed out a short extract from my new book erm which illustrates this , albeit using a computer program , and you can take a copy of that away with you . |
| 7 | Just a wee drop of that instead of the ice-cream |
| 8 | she ate all of that apart from a couple of spoonfuls |
| 9 | In verse writing , as in virtually any other human activity we may think of , there are thresholds to be reached and crossed : below a certain threshold of practice and expertise , the attitude of the amateur produces only work that is ‘ amateurish ’ ( and heaven knows , we see plenty of that all around us ) ; above a certain threshold of facility , the attitude of the professional produces work that is glib , facile , heartless , and academic — and we see plenty of that , too . |
| 10 | The newspapers could write of little else for days . |
| 11 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 12 | Since whatever admissions criteria are adopted the selection of some only of the applicants will necessarily result in defeating the parental preference of those who are rejected , what reason is there for Parliament to object to any given set of criteria being adopted ? |
| 13 | However commonsense has prevailed and in Re Transatlantic Life Assurance Slade J. felt able to hold that ‘ the wording … is wide enough in its terms to empower the court to order the deletion of some only of a registered shareholder 's shares . ’ |
| 14 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 15 | Representative examples of some recently on the market are a pair of views of Vaprio and Canonicha , sold at Christie 's in December 1991 for £1.9 million the pair , $4,421,900 hammer price ; and Walter Chrysler 's ‘ Architectural capriccio with a self-portrait ’ sold at Sotheby 's New York in June 1989 to Muck Flick for $1.7 million . |
| 16 | Make a note of this somewhere near the beginning of your diary . |
| 17 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 18 | When a telephone is installed , it is possible to have a very long flex put on for very little extra cost , and it can then be carried to any room , but you should consider the advantages and disadvantages of this carefully before coming to a decision to have it done , as it has been known to be the cause of accidents to some old people . |
| 19 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 20 | Again the narrowness of this both as a " servicing " model , and in its precarious dependency upon one or two enthusiasts , was acknowledged in the schools . |
| 21 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
| 22 | Among the qualities for which Bashó0 's haiku are revered are ‘ a desire to use every instant to the uttermost ; an appreciation of this even in natural objects ; a feeling that nothing is alone , nothing unimportant ; a wide sympathy ; and an acute awareness of relationships of all kinds , including that of one sense to another . ’ |
| 23 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 24 | Nubenehem , her peace made with him , complained of this bitterly to Huy ; the attentions of the Medjays had cost her a day 's profit , with the following day well below average on takings , as frightened clients stayed away . |
| 25 | It added : ‘ We are very pleased that the procedures have worked and people have come out of this safely with no casualties . ’ |
| 26 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 27 | I came across a striking example of this recently in the story of John Hyde nicknamed ‘ Praying Hyde ’ , a missionary to India early in this century . |
| 28 | But , as Dr Henriques has remarked , " he was secure of this only in the parish where he had established a settlement " . |
| 29 | The declaration stated : " We are changing all of this now in order that tomorrow it will not be too late for socialism in Yugoslavia . " |
| 30 | Over the last few miles to your overnight spot it 's often hard to think of much else except getting a hot meal and a drink — quickly . |