Example sentences of "of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 2 | If it did , it might be valuable in patients with gout , when abnormal deposits of uric acid are responsible for the development of intensely painful joints . |
| 3 | As we neared Arran the clouds became denser , and in turn cast deep shadows over the Firth and the Arran coast , or were lit up with a glow of intensely bright sunlight ; while the glory of Arran , its mountain-peaks , were lost amid the clouds that enshrouded them . |
| 4 | White holes , by contrast , are presumably areas of intensely strong antigravitational repulsion . |
| 5 | The process of intensely examining one 's own practice is not an easy one . |
| 6 | ‘ An overwhelming flood of intensely bright patterns in supernatural colours exploded behind my eyelids , ’ he wrote . |
| 7 | I 'm really just trying to find out if anyone knows of somewhere decent . ’ |
| 8 | It was said that the ‘ Treasures of Britain' exhibition could not be seen in England for lack of somewhere suitable to mount it . |
| 9 | Nathan gets and goes off in search of somewhere quiet , clutching a toilet roll and anxious anticipations . |
| 10 | I dream of somewhere quiet Where no one can find me . |
| 11 | Sometimes , it 's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from anything else the waste would have to be got rid of somewhere else . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And too many sailors target the very sought-after minority of waterside properties , ’ whereas they can live on the outskirts of somewhere like Truro or surrounding areas ( where new five-bedroom executive houses have dropped to around £90,000 from £140,000 and large Victorian detached houses are £110,000 ) and have moorings within a couple of miles ' reach . |
| 14 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 15 | Wilson Mark II , between March 1974 and March 1976 , ran up a total of somewhere around 120 ad hoc groups . |
| 16 | The Scram field , however , is understood to contain gas reserves of somewhere between 100–200 Bcf , so clearly it is possible to find larger accumulations of gas in Zechstein reservoirs . |
| 17 | But I have to restrict myself , otherwise I will face the same problem I had with the books — the lack of somewhere to lodge all these wonderful toys . |
| 18 | Britain now produces nearly 26 million tons per year of domestic garbage which must be disposed of somewhere , somehow . |
| 19 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |
| 20 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 21 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 22 | I dream of somewhere else I wan na be , |
| 23 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 24 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 25 | Housing is an important component of welfare : it is difficult to imagine anything more damaging to an individual 's welfare than the lack of somewhere to live , and this is especially so in the case of families with young children and elderly people . |
| 26 | Her deepset eyes stared in front of her as though she was thinking of somewhere far away . |
| 27 | She went in and bought a novel set in India , whose prose appealed to her , and the heat and dust and cinnamon smells of somewhere else . |
| 28 | Tell your sister she must think of somewhere else . ’ |
| 29 | Crossing the Place Henri Barbusse , Melissa went in search of somewhere to eat . |
| 30 | She is a woman of somewhere else . |