Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can be used instead of the time- consuming pulling down of menus but do n't try to learn them — you will soon pickup the ones that you need . |
| 2 | While deregulation refers to the breaking down of barriers that inhibit competition , impede efficiency , and restrict consumer choice , governments nonetheless acknowledge that some policy goals are too important to be left to heavily market orientated deregulatory processes . |
| 3 | Thus Goody & Watt ( 1963 ) and Goody ( 1977 ) suggest that analytic thinking followed the acquisition of written language ‘ since it was the setting down of speech that enabled man clearly to separate words , to manipulate their order and to develop syllogistic forms of reasoning ’ ( Goody , 1977 : 11 ) . |
| 4 | It was soon realized that more than one reservoir was required in order to avoid the slowing down of timekeeping that occurs with the falling pressure-head in a single vessel . |
| 5 | Iser expands on Ingarden 's description of the reading process as the filling in of gaps but criticizes Ingarden 's belief that there are true and false realizations of a text ( 1978:178 ) . |
| 6 | In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this . |
| 7 | The growth of every living creature or plant on the planet is dependent on the casting off of parts that have served their purpose . |
| 8 | Rank Travel was made up of Wings and OSL in 1985 , while British Airways Tours included the Enterprise , Sovereign , Flair , Alta ( Speed Bird ) , and Martin Rook holiday names as well as its own airline company , British Air Tours . |
| 9 | The DET also plays a leading role in the drawing up of syllabuses and work programmes , the setting and marking of exams , and the approval of textbooks and other materials . |
| 10 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 11 | The majority of the team is made up of players that come from outside the company . |
| 12 | The current population is mostly made up of scientists and support staff working on contract for one or two years . |
| 13 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |
| 14 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 15 | A list was drawn up of events that had , prior to depression , given her a sense of achievement and pleasure . |
| 16 | Rembrandt van Rijn , an old man in a fur coat made up of colours that breathed , looked out calmly from his gilded frame and watched the light change in the silences of the Art Gallery in the afternoon . |
| 17 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 18 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Instead , we should keep out of things and allow the experts to get on with running The Arts Centre . |
| 20 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 21 | Finally run out of money and had to borrow train fare from Chamonix to Geneva . |
| 22 | The gas-fire ran out of money and dropped abruptly into the five little blue blisters ; then it died altogether . |
| 23 | ‘ The military invaded and cleared 280 hectares for shrimp tanks , then they ran out of money and abandoned the land , ’ reported independent shrimp producer Gustavo Acosta Rodriguez of San Bernardo . |
| 24 | They say , " These girls have no ambition , they just come out of school and make babies . " |
| 25 | But the only thing that does bother me about it is when they get you know school kids coming out of school and going straight on streets on Road . |
| 26 | You know little kids coming out of school and going straight on the road . |
| 27 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 28 | Other classes of this kind , sometimes called ‘ street academies ’ , exist in the townships and cater to youngsters who have dropped out of school or want extra tuition outside school . |
| 29 | In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside . |
| 30 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |