Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open to the full force of Atlantic weather , layer upon layer of white-edged surf rolls up to the beach . |
| 2 | However , the role of the associate nurse is seen as being skilled and creative , indicating a level of professional job satisfaction far above that likely to be experienced by nurses delivering care by either task allocation or team nursing . |
| 3 | Of greatest interest , perhaps , are the ‘ tranchet ’ axes ( or ‘ Thames picks ’ ) which could be used for cutting down trees and preparing timber , leading to the possibility of extensive forest clearance even at this early date . |
| 4 | From the offeror 's perspective , there may be a number of advantages of issuing preference shares instead of loan stock . |
| 5 | It fascinated pharmacologists , mainly because it displaced stores of adrenaline-like transmitter substances both from the brain and from other tissues ( see chapter 13 ) . |
| 6 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 7 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
| 8 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 9 | The aim is to encourage a flow of used product materials back into industry as secondary raw material . |
| 10 | She pressed the moss and watched a trickle of earthy water ooze out of it . |
| 11 | Flakes of torn skin curl back from the wound like pith on an orange . |
| 12 | A common clinical finding is occurrence of liquid stool incontinence together with severe urgency . |
| 13 | First , there are technologies using a range of sensors on board satellites and manned aircraft , which allow the precise location and identification of targets and the identification and tracking , in real time , of mobile enemy forces deep within their own territory . |
| 14 | Spinning round , kicking a heap of empty cider bottles out of her way , she raced back towards the entrance , not stopping now to feel her way , cannoning off the walls in the darkness . |
| 15 | Questions of historical influence feature prominently in this study . |
| 16 | Algae that are capable of photosynthesis at very low levels of light intensity proliferate early in the season , to be replaced by a succession of other species as light intensity increases ( Kalff , 1970 ) . |
| 17 | And pure substances tailored to neurotransmitter sites would have a good chance of being free of unpleasant side effects elsewhere in the body . |
| 18 | Recurrent bursts of petitioning on an ever larger scale played a central part in developing and maintaining the dynamic of anti-slave trade agitation up to 1792 and of the emancipation campaign from 1823 . |
| 19 | Suppose that in our population of replicators , which vary because of old copying errors back in their ‘ ancestry ’ , some varieties happen to be more sticky than others . |
| 20 | Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields , sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing . |
| 21 | Opposite are examples of weekly income levels up to which you should be entitled to some reduction on your Poll Tax bill . |
| 22 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 23 | This may be the cause of marked prebreakfast hyperglycaemia sometimes with ketonuria . |
| 24 | This scheme has almost been seen as our joint number one priority in terms of social housing projects along with , obviously , getting social housing on to er , Church Langley . |
| 25 | Before long , Brighton was a centre of high society second only to London . |
| 26 | Manufacturers of high technology alloys principally in the USA and UK . |
| 27 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 28 | We 've lined up a host of money-saving family days out at Britain 's fabulous theme parks — and you can cash in . |
| 29 | A new salvo of microwaves hit him ; he felt a rush of uncomfortable warmth slide all over his body , and he felt his face going red . |
| 30 | Also part of NDT Systems is the UK arm of Tubular Ultrasound operating out of Aberdeen . |