Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spoken eloquently — and not without quoting American authors — of the opportunities facing Britain in 1988 , of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's remarkable drive to revive the economy , and at the same time of the considerable drawing in of horns to which the University had been forced . |
| 2 | Orton was the writer of the naturalistic Entertaining Mr Sloane , and later on of plays like What The Butler Saw . |
| 3 | In terms of this position Moore could say that the object or universal horse is made up of parts to which the parts of an individual horse correspond , while the object or universal good is not made up of parts to which the parts of an individual good thing correspond . |
| 4 | In terms of this position Moore could say that the object or universal horse is made up of parts to which the parts of an individual horse correspond , while the object or universal good is not made up of parts to which the parts of an individual good thing correspond . |
| 5 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |
| 6 | This is the main chemical ingredient of a method of lawn weed killing that literally sucks the sap out of leaves upon which it rests by reversing ( plasmolysis ) the principle ( osmosis ) by which plants absorb nutrient solutions from the soil . |
| 7 | I am not entirely out of sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman is saying on this , but I would remind him that we have seen disturbances recently at the prison at Full Sutton , near York , which is not even full ; there are still empty cells . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , the firm holds shares in another company resident in the UK and itself receives dividends on those shares ( this is called franked investment income ) , the dividends are exempt from further corporation tax because they have been paid out of earnings on which corporation tax has already been paid . |
| 9 | Although he did not underestimate the dangers of insurgent Communism , and considered it pathetic that the Soviet leaders should have as their strict aim the overtaking of the Capitalist states , he still felt that something might come out of Russia from which all might benefit . |
| 10 | And then they make cartoons about it like you know Rambo , they made cartoons out of Rambo like what the fuck ! |
| 11 | But if the expenses in question are payable out of income to which the beneficiary has already become entitled , the expenses are not a proper deduction from the beneficiary 's total income , since they represent simply the mode in which he applies his income after he has become entitled to it . |
| 12 | This can cause problems , since you agree under the terms of the covenant to make payments out of income from which tax has been deducted . |
| 13 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 14 | At the same time Lasky offered Out of Darkness in which a young heiress lives off the profits of a Florida cannery in which hundreds of working-girls earned 30 cents for a 13-hour day at the cutting-tables . |
| 15 | They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats . |
| 16 | These look almost out of place on what must be considered , at least by association , a heavy rock guitar , the popular penchant , of course , being for the chunkier fret . |
| 17 | All you need is a table and chairs that do not look out of place in whatever room they are put — though , of course , folding varieties of both can be brought out for the occasion . |
| 18 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 19 | Father would leave , but he stays on and stays on out of fear of what will happen to you . |
| 20 | Roger Penny , Deane 's immediate superior : Admitted ‘ out of touch with what was going on ’ , and frankly accepted a degree of responsibility . |
| 21 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 22 | Being out of touch with what others are thinking is bad news . |
| 23 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 24 | Thus Hamilton cruised up and down the coast , out of touch with what was happening on the beaches . |
| 25 | As they launched a follow-up operation to Mr Major 's fight-back speech to Scottish Tories at Edinburgh on Friday , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley warned that the Government must take seriously claims it is out of touch with what ‘ ordinary people ’ are thinking . |
| 26 | Right just quickly whip through because I 'm a bit out of touch with what 's go Erm Nick ? |
| 27 | Moving down , I am not going to comment on the Conservative resolution , erm there 's all sorts of cuts in there and lack of growth , I am going to ignore it actually , the Tories are so far out of touch , huh , on , erm both nationally and locally , totally out of touch with what people think and that the government will obviously untouched , we all know that , but I 'm surprised and disappointed the Conservative opposite are also out of touch and the figure is way out from both the Liberal and the Labour way out , and with all the consultations it 's had . |
| 28 | Part of it is not really it it 's being a bit out of touch with what you 're doing . |
| 29 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 30 | ‘ The corrosion rate is not out of line with what you would expect of a steel hull lying in quiet sea water , ’ claimed John Bernie , head of the National Physical Laboratory 's National Corrosion Service . |