Example sentences of "[adv] of the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance at Luke obviously caused Florian to think better of the quip she could see hovering on his lips . |
| 2 | Especially of the winter they wha they have what they have erm , they call yellow alert |
| 3 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 4 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 5 | Economics and geography could be altered by human , at least European , agency : ‘ Reversing the trend of people going over the border is the long-term objective ’ ( whose objective — whether that of the World Bank , of Britain , of other unnamed financial interests , or even perhaps of the Lesothans themselves — is left unclear ) . |
| 6 | If he drove on regardless of the conditions he could well be convicted . |
| 7 | Regardless of the shape you 're in at the finish , only a glutton for punishment will relish the long haul back down the road to the car . |
| 8 | It is worrying , therefore , that the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper opined : ‘ If they [ the employers ] want to make it absolutely certain that no tribunal will dissent from their dismissing the driver who is convicted of dangerous driving , then they should , in fairness to themselves and the driver , post a notice or otherwise bring it to the attention of all their drivers that any conviction for dangerous driving , regardless of the circumstances which give rise to it , will lead to dismissal . |
| 9 | Regardless of the deftness we normally bring to our relationships , when conflict surfaces its power to overwhelm us can be deeply perplexing . |
| 10 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |
| 11 | If there is a vehicle on risk with us and a piston ring breaks , regardless of the reason we coverage the breakage of a component and therefore we would we would cover the cost of the replacement rings and the labour to do so . |
| 12 | The interest payable on your mortgage is charged at the Midland Home Loan Rate , regardless of the amount you borrow — we make no surcharges for larger amounts . |
| 13 | Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at . |
| 14 | People paid weekly , and on weekly budgets ( probably tight ) , virtually have to think of weekly instalments if they want credit , regardless of the costs which are potentially high ( whether directly with trading checks or credit traders , or indirectly through rather higher prices with mail order ) . |
| 15 | People will buy a house if it suits them , regardless of the image you might be trying to create . |
| 16 | Marks & Spencer , having liberated breeding pigs from hard concrete cells to the great outdoors , tells fondly of the technologist who snuggled up in a sow 's couchette to comfort test the temperature of her new straw-bedded housing . |
| 17 | The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen . |
| 18 | D. On the Lancashire side of the Pennines much of the coal which was in places where it was easy to mine has been extracted , and so mining is becoming more expensive . |
| 19 | Speechreading develops a sensitive awareness of the speaker , not merely of the words he utters . |
| 20 | What I actually said was that the price that we would have to charge for burying the dead had to go up in order to ensure that in of the circumstances our standards could remain impeccable . |
| 21 | To move quickly into the management of new policies in a school carries the advantage that an innovation can be explained to others , defended or modified by the decision only of the initiator himself . |
| 22 | There was a strong babble of concerned voices , a thicket of hands reaching out to steady him , but Li Shai Tung was conscious only of the way his skin stung as if it were stretched too tightly over his bones — how his eyes smarted as if hot water had been thrown into them . |
| 23 | The percentages quoted are therefore proportions only of the women who were classed as having a provoking agent . |
| 24 | For example , in many cases it may be considered sufficient to order the parties to file and deliver lists only of the documents they actually possess . |
| 25 | She did not think at all of the consequences , only of the act itself . |
| 26 | The precise scope of the translation requirements is not completely clear , especially in cases in which the letter rogatory is issued at some interlocutory stage ; the specific motion there relevant surely should be translated , but the Protocol speaks only of the document which ‘ initiated the action ’ . |
| 27 | When she had packed her bag at Betterhouse Vicarage on Friday morning , she had thought only of the holiday she had so badly needed . |
| 28 | The surveyor should also ensure his client is informed , not only of the claim itself but also of progress in dealing with it . |
| 29 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 30 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |