Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 32 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 33 | This reply read : ‘ I duly acknowledge receipt of correspondence sent in respect of children in care and confirm that the mail has now been forwarded accordingly . ’ |
| 34 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 35 | Peru is suffering from two epidemics : one is the recent and widely reported outbreak of cholera which has infected over 200,000 people . |
| 36 | In Fig. 2.5 a widely spaced pair of radio-telescopes are shown receiving signals from the same source . |
| 37 | Wilson ( 1991 ) argues that in reality most old people can live well and independently with properly targeted inputs of help at times of crisis or illness . |
| 38 | Postmodernism points to a more organic , less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity . |
| 39 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 40 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) once described the rates as ’ an irrational , inefficient , highly resented form of taxation . |
| 41 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 42 | By then the faster truck , La Resurrección , had pulled over and I had a blurred impression of brilliantly painted pictures of Bethlehem , the birth and the Virgin Mary as I passed it . |
| 43 | I mean to marry Miss Kyte , and so gain possession of Merchiston Lodge and Aunt Lavinia 's fortune . ’ |
| 44 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 45 | The end product of this highly devolved system of decision-making was an escalating penal crisis that was stubbornly resistant in the face of attempts at reform . |
| 46 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 47 | The rather pompous periphrasis " the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand " doubtless represents the boy 's self-centred view of Pemberton , but in language quite above the boy 's apparently limited powers of expression : what it seems to express is Pemberton 's image of himself as he sees it reflected through the mind of the child . |
| 48 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 49 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 50 | But , as Heseltine 's private secretary , the highly regarded Ministry of Defence official Richard Mottram , put it during the trial of Clive Ponting , ‘ In highly-charged political matters , one person 's ambiguity may be another person 's truth . ’ |
| 51 | Idealism , and the quest for action , drove him to change regiments and branches of the service , and so lose chances of promotion beyond the rank of subaltern . |
| 52 | His interest in hygiene and disinfection was evident in sales of ‘ ozone water ’ , in his patents dealing with the preparation and use of chlorine and of highly oxidized compounds of manganese , and in his authorship of five short books on the topic between 1860 and 1867 . |
| 53 | In a third condition the ‘ sentences ’ were randomly arranged strings of words ( e.g. some the no puzzle buns in lead the text off ) which were neither syntactically correct nor meaningful . |
| 54 | In pattern masking , the stimulus which follows the briefly presented target is not a homogeneous field , but itself contains contours , for example , a randomly arranged collection of fragments of straight lines and curves . |
| 55 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 56 | The unprecedented blitz of media hype surrounding the restoration , expansion and long awaited re-opening of Frank Lloyd Wright 's great spiralling concrete shell has created a huge public interest and lining up to get in and see what all the fuss is about has become the latest hot civic pursuit . |
| 57 | Sometimes this is built-in to the carpet in the form of a heavy foam backing which only needs layers of newspaper underneath it . |
| 58 | He did apparently display signs of hypochondria , however — Herbert Read remembered how he was " addicted to pills and potions " and , according to another friend , he kept a variety of pills in his lower waistcoat pocket — but hypochondria , if such it was , was only one aspect of a larger nervous disposition . |
| 59 | Since Roberts 's book focuses on women , she necessarily highlights patterns of exchange which are specific to women , and it is quite possible that both duty and affection were ( and are ) more prominent in exchanges between women than when men are involved . |
| 60 | From there he moved on to Edinburgh , and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die . |