Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if urban communities divided into well-defined upper and lower classes , the sharp edge of inequality was not infrequently blunted by a numerous £2 group , the diffusion of wealth amongst a solid bloc of merchants and master craftsmen worth upwards of £10 , and , in most small towns , the absence of very rich people . |
| 2 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 3 | Be sure to make several copies of each text , partly because , as explained before , you do n't want to lose valuable material , and partly because texts re often of great interest to other linguists or anthropologists . |
| 4 | Popper has claimed that some versions at least of Marx 's theory of history , Freudian psychoanalysis and Adlerian psychology suffer from this fault . |
| 5 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 6 | Erm , they have n't said , because at the moment , it 's , it 's at the end of one lease , or nearly the end of one lease , with some small horror stories in there of sorts , and I think it 's got to come on |
| 7 | But I actually think that you 've got access problems in both of them and they have to be considered because the do really affect severely or they could severely affect er the success or failure of the programme , and it 's these list of things which you think , now I 've thought about that or I have n't thought about that . |
| 8 | ‘ The tenants will paint in a proper and workmanlike manner all the outside wood , iron and stucco or cementwork of the said subjects and all other exterior parts as might properly require to be so painted with three coats at least of good oil and white lead paint … . ’ |
| 9 | When next the red kite appeared , it sailed below us , allowing us views from above of its long dark wings , streaky red body , red notched tail . |
| 10 | Consistency suggests placing assessments of upwards of £300 , comprising the very rich , in a separate category , as the base point for the higher rate of 133 per cent in the loan of 1522 , making a total liability of 28⅝ per cent . |
| 11 | Here the cut slopes towards instead of away from the bud . |
| 12 | These are the environments that , in terms at least of summer climates , most closely match milder parts of the northern tundra . |
| 13 | In Manchester the demand for tickets was so great that they changed hands for upwards of eighty pounds . |
| 14 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 15 | The relatively small £3 — £9 element gives these a pronounced urban flavour but , in contrast to the majority of little country towns , it was men worth upwards of £40 that were specially numerous , while for size and wealth the topmost class had no parallel outside London . |
| 16 | There are photos in here of the kind that win awards , articles that you would want to read even if you did n't have to take your mind off the fact that you might , you know , at any moment … |
| 17 | exhibitions in there of Indian art , and I had loads of stuff ! |
| 18 | Drake also has small white patch behind eye and orange-yellow sides to instead of patch on bill . |
| 19 | That the Free Church congregation are burdened with the expense of maintaining a place of Worship , while they have no minister to occupy it , — Sermon being held there only during two Sabbaths for upwards of three months . |
| 20 | Moreover , they had their own doctrines by now of who Jesus was and what the term ‘ Messiah ’ meant . |
| 21 | Crucial to these observations are satellites , satellites have the ability to make measurements at least of the surface layer of the ocean on a nearly daily basis . |