Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
| 2 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 3 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 4 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |
| 5 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 6 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 7 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 8 | In the last couple of weeks we have heard about the tragic death of Sergeant Alan King and Detective Constable Jim Morrison and we have seen the terrible injuries inflicted on their colleagues . |
| 9 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 10 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 11 | ( v ) Pupils should be taught about the different functions of written language : that writing can be for the writer alone ; it can be addressed to a known reader ; or it can be written for a large and unknown audience . |
| 12 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 13 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 14 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 15 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 16 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 17 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 18 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 19 | Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) . |
| 20 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 21 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 22 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 23 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 24 | Margaret shuddered , wide awake now , her heart racing , gazing through the shadowy darkness of her room , thoughts rushing through her mind . |
| 25 | A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir . |
| 26 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 27 | Many science parks have been developed through the combined initiative of a university , local authority , or development agency , and a finance house . |
| 28 | The damages will be based on the amount the employee would or could have otherwise earned and the benefits he would have otherwise received during the unexpired term of his contract if he had not been dismissed . |
| 29 | How , then , would a learned Roman Catholic scholar discriminate between the religious practices of his Church , which were acceptable , and magical practices , which were not ? |
| 30 | A surprising contrast to what any anthropologist would have to report about the religious beliefs of modem Westerners is Turnbull 's authoritative and intimate account is of the lives of pygmies in the forests of the Congo — containing no references to dreaming at all , and very little evidence of pygmy mysticism . |