Example sentences of "and [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er the students themselves have all sorts of problems and latterly of course we had erm a great number of mature students |
| 2 | For Nora , whose daily landscape was that endless to and fro of paper , there could be no such comfort . |
| 3 | there was a constant to and fro of traffic , but no bus was in sight . |
| 4 | Initial progress was made in tracing water discharged at resurgences but this was succeeded by deductions of limestone erosion rates , by determination of drainage areas , by distinction of the significance of percolation water and of conduit flow and thence of application of the results of process investigations to the derivation of modified models of landscape development as proposed by Smith and Newson ( 1974 ) for the Mendips . |
| 5 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 6 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 7 | From this comparative psychological approach one can begin , however , to draw some conclusions about the evolution of nervous systems , of brains , behaviour and eventually of memory . |
| 8 | Exploration for platinum mineralisation associated with basic and ultrabasic rocks in the Huntly area of Aberdeenshire has revealed enhanced levels of platinum and locally of gold . |
| 9 | Multidisciplinary surveys looking for evidence of platinum mineralisation associated with basic and ultrabasic rocks in the Huntly area of Aberdeenshire revealed that enhanced levels of platinum and locally of gold were present in clinopyroxene bearing rocks of the Succoth-Brown Hill area . |
| 10 | Even using secondary sources alone , the amount of information involved is usually too great to be encompassed by a single person , and so of necessity such studies are often undertaken as a team project . |
| 11 | A lot of times it 's economics that determines what people do in all their endeavours , and in the case of Hawaii tourism was the thing and so of course they had to play music for tourists . |
| 12 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 13 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 14 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 15 | Well , so there you are and I told them , he he said that he wanted erm a urine sample you see and so of course when the nurse come after he 'd gone , later and I kept waiting and I thought to myself well I want to know the result ! |
| 16 | And so of course they started pulling his leg then see ? |
| 17 | And so of youth , beauteous and lovely youth , |
| 18 | Other ideas are presented as " new " information : they are what you offer as new , and so of interest . |
| 19 | ‘ It was Phil Aldrich , ’ replied Stratton quietly , his eyes searching those of the two policemen with a look of puzzlement — and perhaps of betrayal , too . |
| 20 | Mosquitoes whined and bit Frederica 's face into a plump , knobbed , pink parody of itself , giving her an unfair look of the acne from which her dryness of flesh and perhaps of character had preserved her . |
| 21 | The differences in male and female secondary characteristics listed by Darwin shaded into intellect ; women were referred to as more intuitive and more ‘ capable of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation ’ . |
| 22 | It smelled aromatically and only of wood . |
| 23 | Because of this factor it is relatively expensive and little seen , and only of use to regular , frequent business users who would find themselves in difficulties without the transportation . |
| 24 | The final wide-ranging orientation , as obvious as any , and especially of course in Gaudium et Spes ( the Council 's final major document and by far the longest ) , is the concern with secular human values , with justice and peace . |
| 25 | These have been loosely termed ‘ universalist ’ theories of language , since the basic tenet is that there are universal structures of grammar and especially of syntax , in which all people have ‘ competence ’ and which underlie and make possible the different utterances that we observe in the actual practice of language . |
| 26 | The increase in the availability of aerial photographs and especially of satellite photographs has revealed the quite extraordinary regularity of many areas of seif and longitudinal dunes over vast tracts of country . |
| 27 | The daring manipulation of space , and especially of height , is deceiving : the internal length is only 131 feet , the width of the nave and the apse 30 feet , the width at the transepts 79 feet , but over the nave the intrusion of the cavernous tribune , on great round arches and with three windows to light its gallery , lifts the eye and leads it through while at first appearing to block the view . |
| 28 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |
| 29 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
| 30 | If the only thing that matters to Mr Hughes is saturation cricket coverage to the exclusion of everything else and regardless of quality , then Sky is for him . |