Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Aubrey Lear , 84 , died after saying farewell to a group of retired friends off on a walk at Reeth in Swaledale , near Richmond . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If a German soldier is killed by the partisans or by civilians , they take a certain number of political prisoners out and shoot them . ’ |
| 6 | During the afternoon , he accompanied a clutch of lazy Ixmaritians out to the gardens where they sat in the sun and gossiped . |
| 7 | We had a quite vociferous group of Ugandan Asians in . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | This is possible where , as in Sterns v. Vickers , the contract is for the sale of unascertained goods out of a specified bulk . |
| 10 | Equally , a contract for the sale of unascertained goods out of a specific bulk will not be frustrated by the perishing of the bulk if this occurs after risk has passed to the buyer . |
| 11 | One by one the client 's chains of increasingly irrational thoughts can be extracted rather like a magician pulling a series of connected handkerchiefs out of a pocket . |
| 12 | On the other hand the counsellor may be assisted by many physical signs which suggest that alcohol is a problem , such as finding lots of empty bottles around , or when an older person is found to be drinking at all times of the day , often alone and not as part of a social occasion . |
| 13 | Robyn breathed a weary sigh of relief , and threw the carrier of wet clothes on to the floor . |
| 14 | But basically they will be something in the order of eighty thousand square metres worth of commercial sites in and around the city centre , on sites which we have agreed are suitable for office use . |
| 15 | One of the features of that day will be a series of mini- lecturers on just about every conceivable subject , and during the next few Ideas In Action programmes I shall be talking to some of the lecturers about their topics , hopefully whetting your appetites sufficiently to want to join us on that day to hear more . |
| 16 | ‘ There are a lot of thieving buggers up here , sergeant . |
| 17 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 18 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |
| 19 | ‘ I bet that 's cheered a lot of old dears up , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In Chiswick , the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Bennett Street , had been badly damaged , along with a considerable area of old properties around about , i.e. Hogarth Lane , Wood Street , Hunt Street and the southern end of Devon.shire Road . |
| 21 | And make a couple of different fillings up |
| 22 | cos I said , oh we 're having all sorts of different cuttings off from |
| 23 | The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice . |
| 24 | To be an island is to be exposed to the world , after all , not protected from it , and there is no keeping of foreign fashions out of London . |
| 25 | We 're actually funding European imports into Britain instead of British exports out of it . |
| 26 | In the early '60s , Selmer 's ( who had the distinction of distributing both Fender and Gibson guitars at the time ) used to have a lot of their Fenders sprayed here , owing to the differing tastes of British guitarists back then — the Shads ’ influence , I would think . |
| 27 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 28 | These potholes , occurring unexpectedly in an area of bare moorland , are known as the Buttertubs and are of varying depths up to 80 feet . |
| 29 | Further , such displacements of non-sexual fears on to the sexual deviant , be he or she actual , imagined , or constituted in and by the displacement , are made possible because other kinds of transgression — political , religious — are not only loosely associated with the sexual deviant , but ‘ condensed ’ in the very definition of deviance . |
| 30 | The man with the baskets tried to kick a couple of scrawny hens out of his path and they fluttered towards the edge of the road . |