Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been early ties between Aragon ( consisting loosely of Aragon , the county of Barcelona and parts of Languedoc and Provence ) and the papacy , and in 1204 , alarmed by the prospect of the Albigensian Crusade and the effect on his vassals in the Languedoc , Peter II submitted his kingdom to the pope . |
| 2 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 3 | It is even harder to picture them leaving the defence of their border with Turkey to decisions taken in a distant European capital , and to a garrison in Thrace consisting mostly of soldiers from Germany , Italy , Spain or wherever . |
| 4 | THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors . |
| 5 | So , for the English edition , he has added five new chapters , consisting mostly of advice to America to balance his previous advice to Japan . |
| 6 | The first army , consisting mostly of Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 7 | Inside the jar the cream was whipped up , light as a soufflé , and smelled delicately of mimosa . |
| 8 | The extraordinary stories of oddball training methods , holidays on the job , the wilful behaviour , the bringing down of star players . |
| 9 | Hard-edged , smelling distastefully of banknotes on snow , they sketched for her , faster than light , a helix of numbers . |
| 10 | But still they book regardless of weather do n't they ? |
| 11 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 12 | Finally , the system must provide for the coordination , integration and binding together of services so that they function as one |
| 13 | In some cases — for example , maternal pyrexia and prolonged rupture of membranes — the rapid test is unnecessary and antibiotics should be given regardless of carriage . |
| 14 | MPE/ix sits alongside of MPE , meaning that a mixture of MPE/ix , Posix and original MPE applications can be run on the same machine , exchanging data from the same or different databases . |
| 15 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 16 | It does seem fairly common for children to produce project work consisting entirely of reiterations of knowledge they already have , rather than advancements of that knowledge . |
| 17 | In these terms , the original puzzle becomes that of why natural selection does not produce a population consisting entirely of hawks . |
| 18 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 19 | Certainly , it is no justification in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words . |
| 20 | He describes Lebna Dengel 's capital as being the size of a town but consisting entirely of tents . |
| 21 | Only strings consisting entirely of items in the RM1 lexicon were selected . |
| 22 | Ajfan third in the Newmarket race will also come into the reckoning and Dermot Weld thinks highly of Asema who won on her seasonal debut at the Curragh last month . |
| 23 | The Forum sought to link the creation of the new government to the stepping down of President Gustav Husak , a key demand of the opposition . |
| 24 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 25 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 26 | And I 'll think better of cricket only if the Daily Mirror 's cheque for £5,000 goes to charity . |
| 27 | In most cases , they are constructed mainly of bryozoans and capped by a unit of stromatolites ( Füchtbauer 1972 ; Smith 1958 and 1981 ; Peryt 1978 ) , but locally they are formed entirely of stromatolites ( Paul 1980 ) . |
| 28 | These should not be confused with pails which are cylindrical , handled containers made entirely of metal , mostly imported into England ( Richards 1986 ) . |
| 29 | The heart of the park will feature models made entirely of Lego bricks depicting scenes and world famous architectural sites . |
| 30 | Each one of us was given a chess board complete with chess men made entirely of sweetmeats . |