Example sentences of "of [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 2 | By 8 August he was in Barcelona , unable to speak a word of Spanish but armed with a press card . |
| 3 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 4 | What sense can be made of divine as opposed to human ‘ personality ’ ? |
| 5 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 6 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 7 | Measurements of are made using a differential refractometer employing the same wavelength of light as used in the light scattering . |
| 8 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 9 | In tests with intragastric administration of bFGF , the peptide was dissolved in 1 ml of saline and instilled into the stomach via the cannula of the gastric fistula and the fistula was closed for 30 minutes . |
| 10 | The bridge is Brazilian rosewood , and comes with six pearl-inlaid bridgepins and a straight saddle , made of Corian and shaped for compensation . |
| 11 | I have expanded on the teaching of English as exemplifying in a particularly clear way the distinction between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 12 | Whereas the Natural History Museum ( the V&A 's neighbour on the other side of Exhibition Road ) attempts to justify admissions charges through an energetic advertising and marketing campaign promoting the idea of the museum visit as an entertaining-cum-educational day out for the whole family , the ‘ national Museum of Art and Design ’ must work to counteract the potential elitism implicit in its status as an institution of cultural as opposed to ‘ natural ’ history . |
| 13 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 14 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the process of ‘ de-industrialization ’ , typified by the shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries and the related growth of female participation in the labour force , and of white-collar as opposed to manual occupations , has been accompanied by fundamental changes in the location of economic activity , both locally and regionally . |
| 16 | Our breath made huge clouds of steam which hid our faces as we talked , and we hopped about and shrugged elaborately to ward off the penetrating fingers of cold that probed at our necks and hands . |
| 17 | The first , rich country protectionism , comes from within global capitalism , but in the form of national as opposed to systemic interests . |
| 18 | There appears to be a much higher concentration of virus particles in the lesions of genital as opposed to skin warts . |
| 19 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 20 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 21 | May we seek to develop the powers of good that lie within us . |
| 22 | Indeed , this is one of their demarcators of disorganized as opposed to organized capitalism . |
| 23 | The whip was a means of stimulating and communicating with it |
| 24 | In 1947 he evidently realized that the best way of stimulating and tapping into popular fear was anti-communism . |
| 25 | Courses on public speaking , which are often available cheaply at night school are also good places for learning the techniques of relaxing when dealing with other people . |
| 26 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 27 | Martin ( 1984 ) and Meager ( 1984 ) both pointed out that , when considered as a proportion of gross as opposed to net job loss , redundancy was not the dominant process . |
| 28 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 29 | Turn out the cake and wrap in a double thickness of greaseproof and foil until ready to decorate . |
| 30 | Will he consider some way to enable those firms to fund the costs of developing and bringing into use new and competitive machinery long before their existing equipment is out of date ? |