Example sentences of "of and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 2 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 3 | Respondents in the health and lifestyle survey were asked ‘ Think of someone who is very healthy , who are you thinking of and why do you call them healthy ? ’ |
| 4 | We use the study of coinage in default of and particularly to supplement other sources of historical information . |
| 5 | He told the appeal judges it would not be ‘ just an empty gesture ’ to vary the orders complained of and instead impose postponement orders . |
| 6 | Both aircraft acknowledged simultaneously , but because the DC-10 was much closer to London Radar 's VHF receiver mast its call totally drowned out the Concorde 's call , and seconds later the Concorde , climbing without clearance , flew through the flight path of and narrowly missed , a Twin Otter . |
| 7 | The 1987 stock market debacle warned of and ultimately led to the worldwide slump of the 1990s . |
| 8 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 9 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 10 | For them the library essentially is the college and contains it ; it is not a question of libraries being placed in departments , but of departments being regarded as essential facets of and often included within , the library . |
| 11 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 12 | Willis deeply respected Richard , whom he privately thought of and sometimes called aloud , the Skipper . |
| 13 | All our sketches are much approved of and highly complimented by our friends . |
| 14 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |