Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [verb] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 2 | Her piles of patterns just grew and grew , |
| 3 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 4 | In contrast , Mary Poovey 's recent account of the Norton case emphasizes the way in which the ideological separation of spheres both generated and depended on an arrangement of social and property relations that positioned women as moral superiors and economic dependents . |
| 5 | Consequently revenue is recognised as having been earned when sales are made and not when the debt is settled , and the balance sheet will therefore including details of pre-payments both made and received by the company . |
| 6 | My first natural impulse was to shout , to get help from whoever had come : and between intention and voice a whole stream of thoughts suddenly intruded and left me silent , open-mouthed to call out but unsure of the wisdom . |
| 7 | As he made furious attempts to shake them off , a sheet of orange abruptly whooshed and enveloped the car . |
| 8 | The fertile biochemistry of forests constantly racked and renewed by volcanic eruption — which once prevailed throughout the cooling surface of the globe — still continues in Indonesia , and amongst her trembling islands we find time-capsules of our earliest beginnings , when dragons stalked the earth . |
| 9 | However , in 1944 a paper appeared describing the properties of streptomycin , a substance obtained from a kind of Actinomyces recently reclassified and named Streptomyces . |