Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cute , but I 'd say the effect was of unity rather than a two-sided battle . |
| 2 | It was with the new strength born of unity then that the Edinburgh Typographical Society presented the employers with its memorial on women workers in November 1909 . |
| 3 | ‘ But we shall not be altering our style of play just because it is Swansea . |
| 4 | Although there is no direct evidence that the Baron saw cricket on his visits , he must have been well aware of its traditions of Play Up and Play the Game . |
| 5 | For example , we can prevent factories that are obviously discharging their waste into rivers , from doing so ; and there is virtually no kind of effluent nowadays that can not be safely treated and disposed of , if we are prepared to spend the money . |
| 6 | A gaggle of Bonefish 's children were in constant , but changing , attendance , sometimes helping me , but more often chasing each other in a complicated game of tag up and over Masquerade 's hull . |
| 7 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 8 | BT is now crawling into the age of the silicon chip and the death of the British Telecommunications Bill , which would have allowed the government to sell off about half of BT , does not have to calm this wind of change even if the Labour party wins the election and reinstates BT 's monopoly . |
| 9 | Had their remit been wider , they might well have discovered that many of the teachers ' anxieties about LMS arose from a lack of faith in school-level decision-making and a feeling of being somehow ‘ outside ’ the decision-making process : a ‘ victim ’ of change rather than an agent of it . |
| 10 | Thus , it was the accustomed pace of change rather than the fact of an early start , which had already begun to place Britain at a disadvantage in competition against her major rivals at the beginning of the present century . |
| 11 | Her argument is that Irigaray , as a psychoanalyst , sees psychoanalysis as a process of change rather than as a scientific theory : Irigaray 's work suggests ways in which psychoanalysis could be seen as a model for feminists seeking fundamental social change , in particular by proposing an alternative model for the relation between the rational and the non-rational which would be more satisfactory than the dominant paradigm . |
| 12 | and er ideology of change rather than industrial relations , erm revolution |
| 13 | Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig . |
| 14 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 15 | No I 'm not , I 'm not very but , when I do go in I have a sort of look round and the prices usually |
| 16 | There were a couple of splits of champagne there but he would drink no more until this was resolved . |
| 17 | Tallis , greatest of the group , was capable of the most ingenious contrapuntal feats — as he demonstrates in his seven-part ‘ Miserere nostri ’ where superius I and II are in canon at the unison while simultaneously the descant is in canon with ( a ) the contratenor in quadruple augmentation , ( b ) bassus I in inverted intervals and 16-fold augmentation , ( c ) bassus II inverted and in double augmentation — to say nothing of his famous ‘ Spem in alium ’ for eight five-part choirs with its effects of mass rather than subtlety . |
| 18 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 19 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 20 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 21 | Secondly , it was held that on the proper construction of the lease the provisions relating to gold regulated the manner of payment rather than the amount of payment . |
| 22 | The United Nations reception centres for Contra rebels to return and lay down their weapons , opened for business in an atmosphere of hope rather than anticipation . |
| 23 | And er I I joined the Band of Hope there and I signed the pledge . |
| 24 | They are about to kill Simon who is their only sign of hope therefore when they do accidentally kill him , the island is almost like hell with no good on it . |
| 25 | Guitarist Paul Leary Walthall is a virtuoso of abjection just as Hendrix was of free flight , his domain the sewer rather than the firmament which Jimi traversed like a comet . |
| 26 | The structures of the two programs are different in many respects and where they are similar this is the result of coincidence only or because they are constrained by the function — no infringement of copyright . |
| 27 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 28 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 29 | Genestealers are n't creatures of Chaos even if they do hang out in hulks in the warp till they can find a world to prey on . ’ |
| 30 | Loosen tie & undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle . |