Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows Christianity beside the most primitive of humanity and slashes a raw strength into the London lounge . |
| 2 | Reduce the risk by regularly using a long-handled body brush to keep your pores clear of grime and to prevent dead skin cells building up |
| 3 | Some 4610 feet from the side of Gunnerside Gill lies the engine room and hydraulic engine that pumped the mine clear of water and wound up the tubs of lead ore from the levels another 130 feet below the engine room . |
| 4 | Someone had to wipe the inside of the windscreen clear of condensation and clear the outside of the build-up of brown slush . |
| 5 | Home-bred by Derby winning owner Khalid Abdullah , Tremolando made virtually all the running to come home ten lengths clear of Graegos and put Eddery on the 55 mark . |
| 6 | The Scot , however , steered clear of trouble and maintained a three-stride advantage till the line . |
| 7 | Her parents , although they loved their daughter , were not the most understanding of people and assumed that she was being disobedient . |
| 8 | In spite of Strathclyde 's size , covering half of Scotland and serving 2.3 million people , Mr McNulty said local committees would guarantee accountability and reflect local loyalties better than the council structure proposed by the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | A survey presented at the meeting showed that half of undergraduate and graduate science students think lecture notes and photocopies are enough to pass their course examinations . |
| 10 | But Prince has floated free of grassroots or use value , and ascended to an aristocratic , aerial domain of licence and luxury — where he 's instigated a promiscuous chaos of stylistic miscegenation . |
| 11 | • Hypo-allergenic , free of perfume and tested non-comedogenic , they provide extra help to keep your skin supple , healthy and looking fresh and radiant . |
| 12 | Holly struggled free of Bigwig and crouched on his haunches , scuffling his front paws and growling , as rabbits will when angry . |
| 13 | Goff thought none looked fully relaxed or wholly free of shyness or worry , even though it was really Minton , who played the grand seigneur , who was racked by doubts , anxieties and self-pity . |
| 14 | Once that has been completed the scaffolding will be removed and the Banco di Roma will provide indefinitely for a team of gardeners and maintenance officers to keep the upper walls free of weeds that grow in the crevices , loosening small bits of masonry and concrete that are then dislodged by birds or lizards . |
| 15 | Most soils and sites will suit it , and it should be kept free of weeds while establishing . |
| 16 | We were soon free of Calais and heading south for Paris . |
| 17 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 18 | Internationally patented , Brewking is free of chemicals and sold widely in Europe , particularly in Germany where the nation 's drinkers wo n't drink anything but the purest beer . |
| 19 | He watched as Molly flapped the blanket free of crumbs and folded it neatly . |
| 20 | Blindly she hurried on , tearing herself free of branches that attempted to hold her back . |
| 21 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 22 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 23 | Thus , in one case , a patient with inoperable cancer of the oesophagus was still in pain despite receiving 12 g of oral morphine a day when he was admitted to a hospice ; a week later he was free of pain when taking 60 mg of morphine a day and 10 mg of diazepam at night . |
| 24 | A council vehicle would patrol housing schemes ‘ with local vets offering their services free of charge and supplying an animal nurse in an advisory capacity free of charge ’ . |
| 25 | For details dial free of charge and ask for Total Water Heating . |
| 26 | The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds . |
| 27 | For medical treatment they and their children depended upon the Poor Law or , mainly in the cities , medical charities , or upon the charity of doctors , some of whom treated poor families free of charge or ran medical clubs of their own to which poorer patients could make small contributions . |
| 28 | Children are more than welcome on our Warm Hearted Weekends and under 5's will be accommodated completely free of charge when sharing a room with an adult . |
| 29 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 30 | The Navy Department considered in 1943 that Korea was bereft of leadership and feared Korea could fall into a vacuum similar to that which would exist in Poland and the Balkans when the European War terminated . |