Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have an orange badge and you wish to park on the John Radcliffe Hospital site , you can park free of charge just as you would in one of the Council 's car parks park free of charge . |
| 2 | Surely it is not the scientists who are guilty of hubris here but their accusers , in implying that humans could play God . |
| 3 | The accused was guilty of manslaughter even though he did not direct his attack at the victim . |
| 4 | Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted . |
| 5 | The House of Lords held in Lawrence that a person was guilty of theft even when the owner has consented to the taking of the property . |
| 6 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 7 | Since science 's primary role is that of commentator rather than practitioner , the set of transformation rules and practices by which the radical 's dilemma is resolved have taken a special form . |
| 8 | His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially . |
| 9 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |
| 10 | We 're no less serious of purpose today but we may now seem a little less po-faced . |
| 11 | Indeed , the government recently criticized those resourceful street-corner repair shops , where a spare part can be created with the most basic of equipment rather than ordered from a factory . |
| 12 | They are confident of doing better than their 6–1 failure against Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 13 | Some urban gardeners , as short of space inside as they are out , want their gardens to be extensions of their homes , with a great deal of hard paving , good furniture and lighting . |
| 14 | Recently our special commendation has been awarded to shops which have shown particular kindness to customers , This month 's winners are certainly not short of kindness either but it was the general all-round excellence of their business that made Tessa Brown of Mansfield recommend the Ollerton Machine Knitting Centre for our Gold St*r . |
| 15 | ‘ She started to grow very short of breath then and the decline was more and more rapid until she could not walk or move around . |
| 16 | Because the frequencies of all the components are well below the critical frequency , the phase shift β is always small enough to make the approximation or Corresponding to the phase shift there is a time delay per section given by The crucial point to emerge from equation ( 9.33 ) is that the delay is almost independent of frequency so that all Fourier components of the signal experience virtually the same delay and the signal is transmitted , delayed but virtually undistorted , as well as virtually unattenuated . |
| 17 | Completely neglecting R compared with and G compared with in the interest of simplicity , it follows from equations ( 9.77 ) and ( 9.81 ) that Observe that the characteristic impedance is purely resistive in the lossless approximation while the attenuation constant , α , is zero and the phase velocity , , is which is independent of frequency so that dispersion is absent . |
| 18 | Coffin 's eyes met Gabriel 's , hers full of meaning so that he looked away sharply . |
| 19 | ‘ It is full of rubbish even though the Labour group gave a commitment to keep it clean . |
| 20 | By the end of the month , you 're full of self-confidence again and a new development is likely in an intimate relationship . |
| 21 | We travelled to Antigua full of confidence again but were greeted by heavy rain . |
| 22 | Thus the process was capable of repetition again and again . |
| 23 | You should feel capable of doing more and therefore you will become more of a busy , dynamic person . |
| 24 | On balance , the general reaction to the greater social tranquillity was one of relief rather than euphoria . |
| 25 | What happened was that speakers gradually and variably began to use open [ α : ] in environments where [ a : ] had formerly been used : the process was one of substitution rather than change sensu stricto . |
| 26 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 27 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 28 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |
| 29 | She had persuaded herself that her recoil from his touch had been one of distaste rather than one of recognised attraction . |
| 30 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |