Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years companies who have fleets of cars have used this method of payment instead of buying outright . |
| 2 | She was a qualified teacher , but chose to work as an accounting secretary with a firm of solicitors instead of in a class-room . |
| 3 | On Jan. 27 the Chilean Supreme Court agreed to submit questions on the Letelier case to US President Bush ( head of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) at the time of the killings ) , following allegations by Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , the former head and chief of operations respectively of the DINA secret police during the 1973-90 Pinochet regime , that the Letelier attack had been carried out by CIA agents infiltrated into the DINA , in order to discredit the Pinochet regime . |
| 4 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 5 | Oh , yes those horses come in horse boxes them days bit of luck instead of trains . |
| 6 | He loves to attack the ball , and is happier in the centre of defence instead of at full back . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ People who buy these pale impressions of literature instead of the real thing are bound to be disappointed sooner or later . ’ |
| 8 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
| 9 | Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities . |
| 10 | The court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of part only of the holding ( Fernandez v Walding [ 1968 ] 2 QB 606 ) . |
| 11 | Sometimes the root deed itself will refer to the restrictive covenants and sometimes new restrictive covenants will be imposed in this transaction , for example , if it is a sale of part only of the seller 's property . |
| 12 | If the sale is of part only of the land affected by the notice of deposit , a simple letter of consent to the transaction from the bank or other person protected by the notice , addressed to the Chief Land Registrar , is sufficient ; but some banks have their own form , which they like to use in such cases . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | First of all that the input can be grey scale of course instead of binary . |
| 15 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 16 | In his opinion the promise might be good consideration , for it involved the promisor in two possible actions for breach of contract instead of one , and thus was a detriment within the meaning of the law . |
| 17 | Alternatively , they may continue to worry about their initial error of judgement instead of making a revised plan of action to get into a good position for the base leg and approach . |
| 18 | There is plenty of experience now of varied class patterns , students working individually or in pairs from work-cards or other guidance material , proceeding through a series of experiments calculated to introduce and reinforce processes , concepts and information , and doing so at their own pace . |
| 19 | Since confidence ratings were obtained in addition to Yes/No responses it is possible to plot ROC curves for either subjects or stimuli and hence calculate separate measures of recognition sensitivity ( i.e. the ability of subjects to discriminate targets from distractors ) and response criterion bias ( i.e. the tendency to give particular types of response independently of any knowledge a subject has as to whether a film was a target or distractor ) . |
| 20 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most telling argument for the use of handwriting instead of speech as a natural communication medium is the current state of the commercially available systems based on speech and writing . |
| 22 | Young people with years of disqualification ahead of them have no opportunity to take part in motor projects , to drive legitimately and to channel enthusiasm into responsible behaviour . |
| 23 | The presumption now shifts in favour of maintaining planned cash expenditure , rather than a given ‘ volume ’ of provision regardless of cost . |
| 24 | ‘ To ask the Chancellor whether he proposes to take any action to counter the growing practice by companies of granting shareholders the option to receive dividends in the form of stock instead of cash , so enabling some shareholders to obtain a tax advantage . ’ |
| 25 | H to track the highest ( latest ) versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 26 | The user can specify an issue number or use the default , which is the latest version ; the version number can also be specified as ‘ H ’ to track the highest ( latest ) versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 27 | H — Highest , to track the latest versions of sub-packages regardless of the actual version number specified in the module relationships . |
| 28 | The draft document on declaring the party independent says this would not mean breaking off relations with the Soviet party , but would establish a new relationship of partnership instead of subordin-ation . |
| 29 | Best of all were the dancers and courtesans — beautiful women like Ad Begum whose speciality was to appear naked at parties , but so cleverly painted that no one noticed : ‘ she decorates her legs with beautiful drawings in the style of pyjamas instead of actually wearing them ; in place of the cuffs she draws flowers and petals in ink exactly as found in the finest cloth of Rum . ’ |
| 30 | Candidate letter strings can be compared with a list of words instead of n-grams , and this method guarantees lexical output . |