Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations . |
| 2 | Revisionist scholars began to make full use of the primary material published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ; the cultural thaw and the opening up of debate among specialists within the Soviet Union increased readiness to take seriously new research by Soviet scholars ; from the late 1950s a series of cultural exchange agreements between the USSR and the major western democracies facilitated western scholars ' access to Soviet libraries and , to a much more limited extent , to archives . |
| 3 | In the end the insurance company settled out of court with payments of £3,700 for the car and £1,250 for personal injury . |
| 4 | In these former colonies , new dialects of English arose out of contact between speakers of different dialects native to the British Isles . |
| 5 | Er and Stansted in fact now appears to be completely out of proportion in terms of a number of night flights er it is expected to cater for compared to both Heathrow and Stansted . |
| 6 | They should be kept out of sight in boxes like hairpins and buttons . |
| 7 | Kevlar ( DuPont ) has fallen out of favour for reasons of safety . |
| 8 | This puts services which used to be available free from the hospital out of reach of patients on low income and those with chronic health conditions who require multidisciplinary care . |
| 9 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 10 | In sixteen ports employers bought themselves out of trouble with increases for 2,500 seamen of between 5s and 15s a month , but few men came out in support of the national rate except at Liverpool and on the Tyne and the employers then mounted a counter attack , enforcing decreases of equivalent amounts on the north east coast and in Cardiff , Glasgow and Liverpool between October 1899 and January 1900 , using strike-breaking tactics where necessary . |
| 11 | From the very first page , where he both mistranscribes and then mistranslates further the opening of Terce in a Book of Hours , he matches marginal pictures with random words of text beside them , wildly associating words out of context with pictures near them in the margins , apparently grasping the flimsiest of puns and word associations . |
| 12 | an application to register a charge out of time over assets of the company will normally be refused . |
| 13 | His executives went in and out of office like dogs at a fair , and so did his treasurers . |
| 14 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 15 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 16 | Heath accused her of being " entirely out of touch with events in this country " , and of leaving Major a " ghastly economic legacy " . |
| 17 | Erm she is struggling out of dependence on others into independence is n't she ? |
| 18 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 19 | Everybody knows that London prices are out of line with prices in the rest of the country . |