Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story bring out the significance of dreams and their interpretation at this time . |
| 2 | In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) . |
| 3 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 4 | Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good . |
| 5 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 6 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 7 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 8 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 9 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 10 | Disputes wage over the issue of whether or not nuclear families today are isolated from their kin . |
| 11 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 12 | Shavante men in this ceremony act out the glorification of the essence of manhood , comprised for them of both the bellicose , destructive aspect of male power and its sexual/generative side ( ibid. : 266 ) . |
| 13 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 14 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 15 | Sound waves bounce off the sides of the channel as though they had hit solid walls , focusing the sound along the channel . |
| 16 | The rocker switch on the side of my head clicked … work off , weekend on … stress off , mellow on … and sea air crackled static through my stale brain . |
| 17 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 18 | In many sectors worries exist over the sufficiency of the mutual recognition approach . |
| 19 | After some 200000 words , there 's a confrontation as various parties struggle over the fate of the galaxy ; despite mental strife , group minds and energy screens this still consists of people sitting down to discuss the big situation . |
| 20 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 21 | Sharing and co-operation between siblings can be observed , and if fights break out the method of handling by the parents provides on-the-spot evidence of management skills . |
| 22 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 23 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |
| 24 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 25 | If English is to be dropped , parents worry over the ability of their children to hold their own in the jungle of career-making , where a knowledge of English carries a premium . |
| 26 | As their national borders are currently defined , and as this book has decided to define the Pacific , thirty-three countries lie around the margins of the Ocean . |
| 27 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 28 | The tanks are directly connected to one another by a balance rope attached to the centre of each tank and passing over pulleys set about the centre of each plane . |
| 29 | The bad senses cluster around the notion of deliberately causing harm to another being or entity . |
| 30 | They are rarely found on inland waters , although , since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county , such records are likely from time to time . |