Example sentences of "of [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average , four years of predominantly animal trials are conducted pre-clinically and may well continue after it has eventually been licensed . |
| 2 | The Gulf crisis had focused attention on racial tensions and on attitudes towards France 's large Moslem community , numbering some 3,000,000 and of predominantly North African origin . |
| 3 | The plane came down in Bijlmermeer , an area of predominantly tenement blocks in Duivendrecht suburb . |
| 4 | The London Midland Region , the only operator of wholly DC units , cut its varieties to just three . |
| 5 | He dramatized the product , by imagining and scripting two human brand images of conspicuously unAmerican snob appeal : Commander Whitehead of Schweppes and ‘ The Man In The Hathaway Shirt ’ . |
| 6 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 7 | And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here . |
| 8 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 9 | a host of cracked-asunder sepulchres |
| 10 | Manager Graeme Souness is desperate to have Ruddock in his ranks to combat the threat of fit-again Alan Shearer , who is in the Blackburn squad . |
| 11 | Manager Graeme Souness is desperate to have Ruddock in his ranks to combat the threat of fit-again Alan Shearer , who is in the Blackburn squad . |
| 12 | We are taking responsibility for people who we were not taking responsibility for before so it is n't sort of entirely buckshee money which we distribute , there are real responsibilities here . |
| 13 | She did n't offer her own opinion , not because she thought Paul 's design was necessarily as bad as Stephen claimed , but because she had a hunch that , in time , he could come up with something really sensational instead of merely pedestrian . |
| 14 | He was working for unity among all the peoples of their country and he hoped this would lead to ‘ the complete unity of all South East Asia countries ’ . |
| 15 | If in turn the non-US bank aggregated the value of all US$ claims on it , that is the value of all US$ deposits with it , the value of all the US$ claims would far exceed the value of its US$ NOSTRO account in the US . |
| 16 | If in turn the non-US bank aggregated the value of all US$ claims on it , that is the value of all US$ deposits with it , the value of all the US$ claims would far exceed the value of its US$ NOSTRO account in the US . |
| 17 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 18 | In the period May-July 1297 overseas service in Flanders ( while the king was off to lead a force in Gascony ) was demanded of all £20 freeholders , to whom no promise of payment was made . |
| 19 | According to Michael , surfing was the fount of all virtue. : |
| 20 | What the , I believe committees have never had and least of all Mr papers produced on behalf of Mr have never had a serious rigorous objective assessment of the vacancy situation of the future which first of all starts from issue a rolling programme of refurbishments that we have n't really seen sight of the of the implications of that on the number of vacancies . |
| 21 | Erm , I apologise first of all Mr Mayor er for the second meeting in a row dealing with traffic matters affecting High to full council . |
| 22 | Members work within a closely defined mandate : to seek the release of prisoners of conscience — people imprisoned solely for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , language or religion , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence ; to ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners ; to oppose the death penalty , torture and other cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of all prisoners. ; and to end extrajudicial executions and ‘ disappearances ’ . |
| 23 | It also reproduces a summary of BIS data . |
| 24 | The result of this cocktailing of influences is a vastly entertaining album , with lots of spritely guitars ( ex-Housemartin Norman Cook was responsible for the mixing ) and get-up-and-jig rhythm . |
| 25 | This , they say , has contributed to the " ungovernability " of Britain and to a whole host of economic problems as opportunities for investment and long-run growth are " crowded out " by the reality of evermore taxation raised to finance the public services demanded by interest groups . |
| 26 | During the Second World War , as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army , isolated the virus of sandfly fever and was successful in controlling the infection through the elimination of virus-carrying insects . |
| 27 | The Transport Committee was persuaded to order a prototype from English Electric at Preston , at a cost of only £2,000 . |
| 28 | A broad central strip of flat ceiling existing above the classrooms to give a maximum headroom of only 4.3m ( 14ft ) which could not be divided horizontally to give two storeys of habitable room-height . |
| 29 | Appeals for assistance for refugees , estimated by UN agencies as costing $175,000,000 , had elicited pledges of only $60,000,000 as of Jan. 26 . |
| 30 | And up until now , it has pumped a high level of turnover back into just such research and development — out of £820,000 sales for the fiscal year ending March 1992 , some £213,000 went on this activity , while for the year ending March 1993 , the figure was more like £414,000 , out of total revenues of only £922,000 . |