Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it these trivial little improvements , or plus points ahead of the norm look to be insignificant . |
| 2 | This was due to the fact that in Ipswich more of the heavy consumers of community services had died or gone into institutional care by the time of the third assessment , leaving a smaller proportion of heavily dependent people than in Newham . |
| 3 | We 're all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload , and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do . |
| 4 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 5 | Co-existing with the syllabub of pastoral England was one made with wine and spirits instead of cider and ale , and with cream instead of milk . |
| 6 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 7 | This was hardly a crucial ultimatum but , coming from a moderate , indeed sympathetic Frenchman , it suggests that the French , generally , were beyond the point of no return ; while for the Vietminh , with assorted military forces estimated at 60,000 , having already lost Haiphong as the point of entry for many of their weapons and in danger now of facing overwhelming French fire power in Hanoi , the temptations of a pre-emptive strike , even if it was an act of desperation , must have been irresistible . |
| 8 | The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial . |
| 9 | The Masses were held at Christmas , and at Scone instead of the newly finished cathedral at Birsay , for the King did not go to Orkney that winter . |
| 10 | The former took the name of Shi'a ( which conveys the concept of a party of followers — in this case of Ali , whom the Shiites especially venerate , and by extension also of Husain ) and the latter that of Sunnis ( connoting the sunnah , the tradition relating the life-story and precepts of Muhammad , compiled from the Qur'an and the commentaries of the Prophet 's contemporaries . |
| 11 | The first is essentially the marked fluid method again , but with heat instead of a visible marker . |
| 12 | The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating . |
| 13 | I 'd suspected that Rocky would struggle to retain his place once Strach came back , as to play both of them at once would presumably mean abandoning the ‘ Batty role ’ — I ca n't see either Speed or Macca being dropped . |
| 14 | When the buyer calls to sign the transfer or lease , see that any mortgage or other document requiring a signature ( such as an undertaking to a building society to carry out specified repairs ) is engrossed and ready for execution at the same time , to avoid unnecessary attendances ; and if you wish , you can let your client sign any undertakings as to outgoings instead of doing so on your client 's behalf ( Chapter 7 , head 2(c) ) . |