Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 2 | As I waited , Pike started to fall , jumping clear of the stilts that had been holding him up . |
| 3 | Opposite : A spin-off kite ‘ at the ready ’ for launch with bridle lines clear of the spurs and pre-checked for symmetry . |
| 4 | His desk was clear of the papers that were memorized and locked in his personal safe . |
| 5 | An illuminated indicator told them to stand clear of the doors and then they closed . |
| 6 | Down the clachan street he ducked and dodged through the retiring clansmen , half-hidden by the smoke , Lachlan yelling after him , till suddenly they were clear of the huts and into the fight round the ships . |
| 7 | Some artists become so resentful of the conventionalities that come with the signal — the imposition , as it is said , of a merely ‘ arty ’ atmosphere — that they consciously take their work to other , ‘ more normal ’ places . |
| 8 | Then he shook his feet free of the stirrups and , lifting his horse for the last time , sent it rearing into the enemy mass to crash and sink amongst them . |
| 9 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 10 | Above all she sought — and hoped — to prepare herself in every way for modern motherhood , free of the restrictions that had marked her own unhappy upbringing . |
| 11 | Moreover , he says , Delta 's haemoglobin is guaranteed to be free of the viruses that could contaminate the blood-derived product , and of any residual matter from the blood cells that might trigger allergic reactions in patients . |
| 12 | He was best to be free of the humiliations and the uncertainties of the farm . |
| 13 | Trent shook himself free of the hands that held him and turned his back on the man . |
| 14 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |
| 15 | So being psychologists who ca n't get enough of it , empirical solid data , we tend to erm be a bit dismissive of the methods that were used by the Although these laws tend to describe what th what 's happening , they do n't actually tell you how they 're achieved . |
| 16 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 17 | Yet , as things stand , the next government will take office bereft of the instruments that would enable an effective economic strategy to be implemented . |
| 18 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 19 | Anyway , I bet he 's just as fond of the ladies as they are of him . ’ |
| 20 | Gooseberries are top of the crops when trained as standards |
| 21 | By April a Philips single , ‘ I Believe ’ by Frankie Laine , is top of the charts and proves to be another nine-weeks-at-the-top monster . |
| 22 | Yet our soaps are top of the ratings but they could increase their viewers even more if they eased-up a little and balanced things out . |
| 23 | It was difficult for anyone to make light of the conditions but the Brugge forward , Amokachi , did his best to advertise the obvious pace he possesses during an opening in which the Belgian side did everything except score . |
| 24 | ‘ I was afraid of the Africans because I thought they would take over my farm . |
| 25 | Individual Compacts should refuse membership to any anti-union organisation , because Compacts aim to develop in young people as wide an understanding as possible of the opportunities and choices available to them when they leave school . |
| 26 | In the time available to me I shall answer as many as possible of the points that have been raised . |
| 27 | The Governor ( 1947 — 9 ) , Sir Gerald Creasey , who was a Whitehall official , lacked a sure touch ; despite the Watson Commission 's comments on chiefly authority he selected a group strongly representative of the chiefs and their allies . |
| 28 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 29 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 30 | Myeloski stood by his side , unaware of the emotions that raced within his companion . |