Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the populist , anti-intellectual pressure has come from government instead of from the people . |
| 2 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 3 | Stok tied his tie , using all the muscles of his fingers as though it was made of metal instead of cloth . |
| 4 | Elasmobranchs , such as sharks and rays , are a very ancient group of fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone . |
| 5 | Overweight is caused by eating more energy-giving foods than are needed , so that the excess is turned into fat instead of being burned up . |
| 6 | SPEAKER of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , has yet again made a change in the running of Westminster , by ensuring that menus for her official dinners are written in English instead of French , the traditional language of banquets . |
| 7 | Another problem is how to modify the levels of nutrients which are often included in hydroponic systems where plants are grown in water instead of soil . |
| 8 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 9 | I hue written at length elsewhere of the peculiarity and wastefulness of the Western habit of argument and clash . |
| 10 | Although built by Brush instead of Milnes , the bodies of these cars were almost identical to those of Corporation Nos. 46–55 . |
| 11 | They can be used for assessment independently of training . |
| 12 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 13 | The DSS has a statutory duty to pay benefits of a given level approved by Parliament regardless of the level of sickness or unemployment that may arise in any one year . |
| 14 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 15 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary , where property has been stolen or obtained by fraud or other wrongful means , the title to that or any other property shall not be affected by reason only of the conviction of the offender . |
| 17 | Thus suppose a mutation occurs in a complex organism which causes GGC to be translated as proline instead of the usual glycine . |
| 18 | It was a rough job , but somehow it did n't look that different with the skin stretched over straw instead of ribs . |
| 19 | On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar . |
| 20 | In the new ICI-Air Liquide process , the ammonium will be reacted with oxygen instead of air , which will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide , nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide compared with conventional SAR plants . |
| 21 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 22 | Germany has taken on board much of the Social Charter but it is its economy we are all trying to match . ’ |
| 23 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 24 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |