Example sentences of "of [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 2 | Why not deal with the beam instead of for ever going on about the mote ? |
| 3 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 4 | There are , in practice , ways of cutting costs — up to a point — but it is difficult to produce a commercial you can be proud of for under around £60000 — £70000 in the UK today ( 1992 ) , and costs of over £150000 are common . |
| 5 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 6 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ This is what I 've dreamt of for so long … ’ |
| 8 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 9 | There was not a hamlet or a house that she knew of between here and Coton . |
| 10 | Contingency is , I thought was just sort of between here and the airport |
| 11 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 12 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 13 | And and and and across the board there has been a cut of er , er of of of just below fifteen per cent , that that the that er er , our cut is forty five per cent , and and I mean , it er , it it it does er er create problems , there 's no doubt about it , and that I I got the letter from er which er , Rod instructed to come along to the department to me yesterday , in fact , I did refer very briefly to it , 'cos I 'm gon na just before the meeting that er er it it sets out saying that it was a very generous set settlement for ninety-three , ninety-four . |
| 14 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 15 | Er approximately eight hundred hectares I think , and I suppose the cynical amongst us might might say what has the allocation of of nearly a hundred hectares of land adjacent to the A one , some of which is in in greenbelt , what has that got anything to do with the er vitality of of Leeds commercial centre or urban regeneration , but we accept that 's a that 's a matter for Leeds , we not objecting to their proposals . |
| 16 | Is it based on the contents of of rather the erm |
| 17 | Erm we are in the current process of reviewing our own or altering our own structure plan , the first alter alteration is going through consultation at the present moment and we 're estimating a need within that period of of actually fifteen thousand which is marginally above the regional planning guidance . |
| 18 | Okay , so ha if you 're going to reward at the point of of actually doing the desired behaviour you 've got a problem because people er you may not be able to give them something appropriate at that time which is rewarding . |
| 19 | If were greater than one , the effect of a non-zero would increase over time , so a value of of less than one is a requirement for the model 's stability . |
| 20 | I think it it was a it it was a very bad er announcement for Lincolnshire , and er , on the strength of that , er , for the benefit of all of us in the county , I just like to lobe a few , as a minister for roads and traffic , er expressing our bitter disappointment really , 'cos it 's er , particularly on the T S G , it 's a , it 's a cut of of er , of forty five per cent against the er er er national cut of of of of of of about half of that . |
| 21 | indicator of of quite a rich scene and , that the |
| 22 | Now Greater York chairman , er we 've had an interesting discussion this morning , the , what I would say there is the allocation of a hundred and forty five hectares to Greater York is in fact the product of several years of of quite detailed study by the Greater York authorities on on a joint basis . |
| 23 | But they apart from Stan do n't look like scoring and er this here is an example of of really superb play . |
| 24 | By taking great care to minimize the disturbance level , experimenters have maintained laminar flow up to values of of around 1·0 × 105 . |
| 25 | kind of like here |
| 26 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 27 | Yeah it suddenly bits of like there . |
| 28 | Let's say it starts of with just to make it a bit easier for you so it does n't come like this let's say it starts with fifteen engines on , and what 's its weight with fifteen engines on ? |
| 29 | Lurgan made it past Bangor 's total of with just three balls to spare , Craig Irwin 's innings of doing most of the damage . |
| 30 | Various formulations of in exactly what respect the statements should be clear are to be found in the Speech . |