Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The innkeeper , in Coleridge 's version of events , could remember nothing remotely suspicious in the activities either of Coleridge or the ‘ strange gentleman ’ from Alfoxden , though he did recall the amazement of some local farmers when , at a great dinner party , Coleridge and the vicar of Stowey had talked ‘ real Hebrew Greek at each other for an hour together ’ . |
| 2 | The response then of these people to reform and negotiation — a resounding No . |
| 3 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 4 | Now , that was a much more orderly occasion with people waiting patiently to enter the tent instead of creating a crush . |
| 5 | Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy . |
| 6 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
| 7 | Delegates stressed the need for increased co-operation with eastern European countries , where the recent liberalization and the relaxation of border controls had offered drug traffickers the opportunity both of fresh markets and of trade routes into western Europe . |
| 8 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 9 | Their aim was to drive the majority out of their homeland . |
| 10 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 11 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 12 | The potential volatility of the markets and the multiplication of risk through gearing coupled with the complexity both of the transactions themselves and market procedures , mean that investors , particularly those with little experience , can be placed at considerable risk in the futures markets . |
| 13 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |
| 14 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 15 | It seems to rot the backbone out of good men . ’ |
| 16 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 17 | The court did , however , renew the validity of the writ for a period of four months , notwithstanding the expiry both of the writ and the limitation period , to allow alternative means of service to be used . |
| 18 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 19 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |
| 20 | We have shown that the initial stages of T-cell development require the support both of MHC class II + epithelial cells and of fibroblasts in the thymic stroma . |
| 21 | In preparing for war in 1337 it was essential for Edward to gain the support both of the nobility and of the wider political community . |
| 22 | The five Home Secretary nominees with the support even of a minority of say three of the councillors will almost certainly be able to elect the Chairman of the authority who will then have in addition to his deliberatory vote a casting vote . |
| 23 | In a vote of confidence on 28 March about the government 's handling of the industrial crisis , the Liberals , the Scottish Nationalists , and most of the Ulster MPs voted with the Conservatives , while the government enlisted the support only of the 3 Welsh Nationalists , 2 Scottish Labour , and 2 Ulstermen . |
| 24 | He had taken the bulb out of its socket in the telephone booth , nervous about being seen . |
| 25 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 26 | TDC officials believe that TDC is less badly affected than other prison administrations with respect to the smuggling in of narcotics and other drugs . |
| 27 | I like the Fat Slags because they scare the shit out of men . |
| 28 | They 're obsessed by the shit out of which we 're shaped ( surgery ) , the shit that could befall us ( horrible accidents ) , the shit in our souls ( the drives and impulses we suppress and expel in order to constitute ourselves as normal , but which sometimes break free in perversion or psychosis ) . |
| 29 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm glad I got whacked , I 'm surprised the guy did n't beat the shit out of me , rightfully so . |