Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 But the group most demanding of provision is that of adults with severe learning difficulties who are newly resident in the community .
2 Rivers bear birth on slows of quicksand
3 Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels .
4 Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery .
5 They would far rather think of it as realising their strengths and weaknesses .
6 We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak .
7 Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard .
8 In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’
9 The Chancellor will need little reminding of the importance the industry attaches to negotiating satisfactory arrangements for excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ .
10 I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here …
11 Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home ,
12 While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers .
13 Eventually supergrains of matter coalesced until the rocky fragments became large enough to attract more materials with gravity accreting at a faster and faster rate until they became full-sized planets .
14 Be that as it may , they gained access and proceeded to make an inventory of the goods there , mostly supplies of cloth , particularly linings .
15 For some time , the mill stood idle and decaying , but was eventually stripped of its machinery and converted to two cottages .
16 Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients .
17 The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim .
18 For if we have no reason to believe that any more of the debts will be paid during the intervals of peace , than have hitherto been : Nay the whole of the Sinking Fund , by such an increased debt , becoming absolutely anticipated , together with numbers of additional oppressive taxes , we have less reason to expect any of the old debts to be discharged , as we go on contracting of new .
19 I have since heard of a Roman Catholic nun who was also a doctor , who was allowed to train part time to fit in with her religious duties .
20 ‘ And in the back row , Tim Rodber and Ben Clarke can justifiably think of themselves as England candidates . ’
21 And yet all that makes something much more intensely demanding of this , their Mother debut .
22 ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’
23 However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman .
24 It is regarded as essential that the client is expressly reminded of his freedom of choice of solicitor .
25 Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic .
26 If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely .
27 The Saturday Benediction was slowly dying of indifference .
28 More importantly , I can see that I am very effectively disposing of all the apparent or alleged similarities between Daniel Miller and myself .
29 I think I 'm sort of rather reminded of when somebody said that Ronald Regan was going to stand for erm President .
30 Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms , and then lapse into deviance later on .
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