Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 2 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 3 | Its use does not preclude the side-by-side use of specific MAS checklists or work programmes but the SEPR must be regarded and treated as the lead control record . |
| 4 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 5 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 6 | The igneous complex is composed for the most part of very resistant rocks , and less erosion has taken place here than with the other rock types , so that this region contains some of the highest hills in the Outer Hebrides , such as Roneval , Bleaval and Chaipaval . |
| 7 | However , these are for the most part of very low quality and certainly can not meet the needs of the poorest sectors . |
| 8 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 9 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 10 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 11 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 12 | Fats supply the most calories of all , very many more , weight for weight , than all other foods . |
| 13 | The most sort of personal thing I suppose , erm , let the group open . |
| 14 | I , I think that 's , that 's the most sort of optimistic |
| 15 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 16 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 17 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 18 | However , some market participants suggested that volume had been boosted by cross-trading , that is , the to-and-fro trading of contracts between market makers to create volume artificially . |
| 19 | There is still no satisfactory explanation for the much greaterefficacy of a combined omeprazole/amoxicillin treatment regimen . |
| 20 | This has implications for the generally study of ideology and the counter-themes of ideology ( Billig , 1982 ; and Billig et al . , |
| 21 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 22 | First , we have evidence from Renée Baillargeon ( see the Bremner volume referred to above ) that babies as young as three or four months are able to ‘ represent ’ , in some sense , the continuing existence of an invisible object behind a screen because they show ‘ surprise ’ when this out-of-sight object does not resist the backwards movement of the screen . |
| 23 | This year 's Africa Oye , which starts tomorrow , promises the best-ever lineup of African and African-Caribbean musicians and singers to visit Merseyside . |
| 24 | ACTUALLY STEVE Albini is someone you should know everything about , if only for Big Black , the Chicago-based hellcore punk terror band he formed in 1981 who had a parallel career of equal importance with the likes of Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth , whose best records managed to combine an obsession with the eternally disgustingness of life with a guitar noise beyond punk , metal and , indeed , language . |
| 25 | The main axes of the centuriation were somewhat improbably and completely artificially taken as the eastward continuation of the line of Watling Street , from before its deviation slightly southwards at Salters Cross on its approach to the suburb at Strood and to the Medway bridge , and the extension northwards of the alignment of the road from Maidstone to Rochester . |
| 26 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 27 | It should be noted , however , that an alternative hypothesis has been suggested for the formation of the Straits of Dover by Stamp ( 1927 ) , who thought that they were due to the southwards overflow of a proglacial lake ponded up in the southern North Sea by an ice front stretching from England to Holland . |
| 28 | In his book on Environmental Systems Dury ( 1981 ) adopts an approach to physical environment in which he adopts the four-fold classification of systems devised by Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) but in addition adds a fifth type in the form of an ecosystem justified as including ‘ sets of biosystems which interact with one another and with their immediate physical environment ’ . |
| 29 | If we consider once again the four-fold diagram of the physical , emotional , mental and spiritual planes or levels of the individual — with each plane within and higher than the previous one — we can see the correlation with Hering 's directions of cure ( Figure 3 , p.54 ) . |
| 30 | Through the clerkly sympathies of the fabliau corpus we can justifiably reach back to other forms of literature and literary theory associated with students and the universities and assess the fabliaux in that light . |