Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrat Peter Allen has accused his fellow candidates of mud-slinging and claims neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a vision of the future . |
| 3 | the illusion of progress and takes away thought |
| 4 | In the event , ‘ the effect of local pressure was to reduce the amount of change and produce rather more authorities ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:229 ) . |
| 5 | I wasted no time in entering the assembly area and rejoining the cheerful gang of visitors , buoyed up by the welcome infusion of champagne and looking forward to more . |
| 6 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 7 | The motherboard was a masterpiece of miniaturization and contained only one large surface-mounted chip after the 486DX/50 . |
| 8 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 9 | Add just 3 tbsp of syrup and just 4 tbsp of treacle and blend well . |
| 10 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 11 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 12 | In my spare hours , I drew up Ned 's terms of severance and thought nervously about my own . |
| 13 | The fashion for exotic locations thrived during the early sixties , but has diminished as economic realism and improvements in studio techniques have respectively discouraged the wilder flights of fancy and provided generally acceptable substitutes . |
| 14 | Although the combination of cisapride and ranitidine significantly increased amplitude , duration , and propagation velocity of oesophageal contractions , the changes in oesophageal motility seem small when compared with the considerable reduction in acid reflux . |
| 15 | I suggest that doctors should end the battle of faith and stand together to assure continued supply of animal insulin for those who need or want it . |
| 16 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 17 | A relative dearth of literature and experience unfortunately hampers the development of family therapy with older families particularly in the United Kingdom , with a few notable exceptions . |
| 18 | A new edition of the JCT Prime Cost Contract was published and the Tribunal continued to keep under review the Standard Forms of Contract and Sub-Contract together with their ancillary documents , issuing amendments , variants and re-editions . |
| 19 | Monie is without Shaun Edwards ( broken thumb ) , Martin Dermott ( elbow ) and Neil Cowie ( groin ) plus Test prop Andy Platt , who is out of contract and has still to agree new terms . |
| 20 | ‘ He also showed a remarkable capacity to look at any form of contract and identify both the things that needed taking out and what has been wrongly omitted . |
| 21 | She gave a sigh of resignation and turned away , avoiding his eyes . |
| 22 | In considering whether these reasons are strong enough , we should not neglect the fact that some offences of manslaughter lie well above the lower boundaries of liability and fall little short of murder . |
| 23 | She devised a unique ‘ anyone can paint ’ system of teaching and became instantly successful . |
| 24 | Referee Jim Fleming irritated the crowd with the speed of his whistling , often scorning the possibility of advantage and creating far too many stoppages . |
| 25 | It 's not much protection from wind at this slower speed , but you can unnerve the man in front of you , wait for a moment of weakness and spring past . |
| 26 | The system has been continuously discussed and amended in the light of experience and has also thereby provided a most valuable focus for staff support and development . |
| 27 | Thus it is that the new 3-series gets a modest extra inch of legroom and stays conspicuously smaller than the far from roomy 5-series . |
| 28 | ‘ Happy New Year ! ’ said Miss Needham tartly by way of response and rode away . |
| 29 | The gas-fire ran out of money and dropped abruptly into the five little blue blisters ; then it died altogether . |
| 30 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |