Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 2 | But , in the end , Steven did n't mind at all when discerning folk puked up all over the loathsome Lost Boys and complained of dangerous levels of heartwarming brought on by an excess of Robin Williams . |
| 3 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 4 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 5 | er there 's a bit of stew in there , would you like some of that heated up in microwave ? |
| 6 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 7 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 8 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 9 | Even when whole batches of these ended up on sale rails Laura was not given to tergiversation . |
| 10 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 11 | Traditional epics taken from Frankish oral poetry also commanded Charles ' interest , and he had several of these copied out into formal texts . |
| 12 | Oh you could tell right on the phone you were sort of all keyed up with it . |
| 13 | Furthermore , some of those singled out for attention , judges , politicians and so on , occupying roles which attract attention and ( sometimes ! ) respect , have clearly been endowed with exceptional qualities , of intellect and personality . |
| 14 | It was neglect which made liberals out of those passed over in promotion . |
| 15 | Some of those caught up in investment bond income schemes ( see Information Circular , June 1991 ) have the right to go to FIMBRA 's Consumer Arbitration Scheme , where any award against the broker is legally binding . |
| 16 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 17 | Thirdly , to avoid the problems of ‘ single stage ’ studies , we adopted a processual approach and followed up a sample of those arrested through to final outcome . |
| 18 | The FMLN maintained that the constitutional amendments given initial approval fell short of those agreed on in Mexico City , while the government warned that FMLN military operations could jeopardize the peace process . |
| 19 | But with only five runners declared - and two of those pulled out before racing - she decided to take the plunge . |
| 20 | Presumably my printer would be one of those linked back to the Apple |
| 21 | Figure 7.6 shows that the average number of dependent children in the household is generally higher in the local authority sector , especially for young heads of household , but by the late forties , the younger ages of childbearing ( and the earlier leaving-home patterns of those brought up in the local authority sector ) mean that the values are very similar . |
| 22 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |