Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 2 | Stalin had observed , when the treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland was signed , that Russia believed in true equality between states regardless of respective might . |
| 3 | The demand for money instead of military service became more frequent . |
| 4 | The bill is being paid by the Ministry of Defence out of public funds , and lawyers say the amount spent on the case contrasts with new guidelines introduced by the Lord Chancellor to reduce costs for legal aid . |
| 5 | In his opinion the promise might be good consideration , for it involved the promisor in two possible actions for breach of contract instead of one , and thus was a detriment within the meaning of the law . |
| 6 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |
| 7 | There is plenty of experience now of varied class patterns , students working individually or in pairs from work-cards or other guidance material , proceeding through a series of experiments calculated to introduce and reinforce processes , concepts and information , and doing so at their own pace . |
| 8 | Since confidence ratings were obtained in addition to Yes/No responses it is possible to plot ROC curves for either subjects or stimuli and hence calculate separate measures of recognition sensitivity ( i.e. the ability of subjects to discriminate targets from distractors ) and response criterion bias ( i.e. the tendency to give particular types of response independently of any knowledge a subject has as to whether a film was a target or distractor ) . |
| 9 | Oh I 'll get a lot of response out of that . |
| 10 | The landlord had obviously decided he could make a lot of money out of this rehearsal room lark . |
| 11 | " Is that a fact ? " said Manciple , and the sergeant said , " You 'll maybe be getting a bit of money out of this series , then ? " |
| 12 | I mean , this is why Hollywood you know can make a lot of money out of some pretty horrifying movie , the th the kind of thing I could n't go to see er cos I get the willies , I ca n't bear that kind of thing , but some people enjoy being frightened do n't they ? |
| 13 | branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition |
| 14 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 15 | get hours of pleasure out of this . |
| 16 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 17 | It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 . |
| 18 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 19 | There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree . |
| 20 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 21 | The peak figure of 160 thousand divorces in 1985 reflects further legislative change in 1984 ( the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act ) , which allowed couples to petition for divorce after one year of marriage instead of three . |
| 22 | The NRA , which traditionally wielded a degree of influence out of all proportion to its 2,600,000 members , as usual forcefully combated the bill . |
| 23 | Conversely the Conservatives gained only ten seats in Scotland and eight seats in the North of England out of 72 and 36 respectively . |
| 24 | In western Europe West Germany in the 1980S became the biggest producer of chips Much of this was captive production for Siemens , IBM and Japanese companies . |
| 25 | But although there was so much to be done , the indefatigable Breeze found time to collect holly and evergreens from the lanes inland , and made all sorts of decorations out of odd scraps of coloured paper . |
| 26 | What they actually you can get a lot of stuff out of that . |
| 27 | Article 8 of each Convention had the same text , which survives with only minor drafting changes , in the text of the most recent Hague Convention on the topic , that on the Taking of Evidence Abroad of 1970 . |
| 28 | But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ? |
| 29 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 30 | Reynolds 's role in the deposition should be regarded as creditable rather than shameful , for his oath and loyalty to the king were sustained until the cause was obviously lost ; at that point his concern for public order , for the good of the church and the realm , dictated his choice of acquiescence instead of futile hostility . |