Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole . |
| 2 | When imaging a surface , researchers bring the fine tip of the STM down to about 1 millionth of a millimetre away from the sample . |
| 3 | They carried the headlamp on the front of the canopy instead of on the dash and B.T-H . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Choose a poem ( the same one as in exercise 1 if you like ) , and put the title after the first stanza , so that it is in the middle of the poem instead of at the beginning . |
| 5 | By positioning a bolster in the middle of the bed instead of at the end the mattress will look as if it is divided into two separate areas . |
| 6 | Vodafone Group Plc is making a rescue one-for-277 share exchange offer for cellular air time reseller Hawthorn Leslie Plc , valuing the struggling company at £2.9m , 1.54p a share against 2.5p in the market ; Vodafone has also conditionally agreed to procure redemption of the £16m convertible loan stock 2007 of Hawthorn Leslie held by Svenska Handelsbanken and repay outstanding loan facilities from Svenska , which brings the total cost of the transaction up to about £31.5m . |
| 7 | This kind of activity is seen as marginal to the work of the prison instead of as a central opportunity to reawaken feelings and capacities which have been stunted . |
| 8 | Work from the base of the neck upwards to behind the ears . |
| 9 | And you 've got ta be careful as well at night not to hang on to the tail lights of the thing in from of you |
| 10 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |