Example sentences of "[adv] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reading frame is closed 15 codons upstream of this start site . |
| 2 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
| 3 | This decision , combined with the Prussian mismanagement of the waterways and consequent flooding , as well as high trade tariffs , caused rising unemployment which hit the city 's Poles hardest of all . |
| 4 | Not only do you have to keep an eye out for hidden switches to help you get across treacherous terrain but , hardest of all , you have a time limit to complete the game — exactly 60 minutes — or it 's curtains for the Prince . |
| 5 | Janice looks ashen with worry , and does n't see me although she appears to be looking hardest of all . |
| 6 | For the previous six weeks we had done nothing but make preparations ; buying the tickets , finding tenants for the house , and , hardest of all , putting the house in a fit state to receive tenants ! |
| 7 | The chubby , balding presenter was smiling , the blonde starlet was smiling , the famous politician was smiling , the best-selling journalist was smiling , while the clean , well-drilled young people dancing around them were smiling hardest of all . |
| 8 | The historian must therefore try to estimate the population of these two shires , the proportion of the population under fourteen and , hardest of all , the extent to which the tax was successfully evaded . |
| 9 | They do n't believe that government promises of an increase in benefits will properly compensate the pensioners , and worry that those just above the level eligible for benefits will be hit hardest of all . |
| 10 | But what 's certain to hit motorists hardest of all would be the extra congestion caused by the the imposition of VAT on public transport . |
| 11 | For a moment he smiled lavishly at Meh'Lindi , then thought better of this . |
| 12 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 13 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 14 | " Have I got to 'ave me picture taken alongside of that ? |
| 15 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 16 | The analyses which have been put forward are not necessarily of any value , since I have not offered any explanation myself . |
| 17 | Our curtain rises , then , in the nineteenth century , when the study of man was treated as a kind of history and more especially of that generalizing sort usually known as ‘ universal history ’ which is so well represented today in the works of Arnold Toynbee . |
| 18 | In any case the universities , while all through the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s publicly deploring the undue specialization of the English sixth form , nevertheless for the most part continue to demand it , especially of those candidates who wish to read science or languages . |
| 19 | Early in the twelfth century a new tympanum was carved over the west door , showing the Last Judgement — welcoming visitors to horrific scenes of diabolical torture ; but also revealing , as doubtless the guides instructed the visitors with particular care , the heavenly hopes of the good , and especially of those who won the intercession of St Faith . |
| 20 | Emphasizing the power of the inner connectedness of all life forms , especially of those who are attached to each other ( as Backster and his plants clearly were ) , Backster noted how the plants registered the emotional ups and downs of his day in their electrical activity whether or not he was physically present with them . |
| 21 | If we live out much of our developing years in imitation — especially of those most close to us — then Burton very soon outstripped guiding example . |
| 22 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 23 | To avoid confusion , the first mention below of each of the exclusively oriental animals appears in italics . |
| 24 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 25 | Winnick and Daniel ( 1970 ) showed that , whilst tachistoscopic recognition of a printed word was facilitated by prior reading aloud of that word , there was no facilitation by prior picture naming , or by prior production of that word in response to a definition-tasks ( c ) and ( d ) above . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's quite enough of that , thank you , Rosie , ’ Nanny said firmly . |
| 27 | ‘ That 'll be quite enough of that , thank you very much . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That 's quite enough of that . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's quite enough of that ! ’ she declared . |
| 30 | Companionships easier with heterosexuals and few enough of these ; Mark by far the closest . |