Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as now , coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country 's electricity . |
| 2 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 3 | The return of Alvin Martin , 33 , who will be given a free transfer at the end of the season , for his first match in 16 months , shored the defence , while Matthew Rush , in attack for only the fourth start of his career , was a revelation . |
| 4 | And now , as he sat staring fixedly at the floral configuration on the faded green carpet , he felt a little sad as he thought of Laura , his wife for only the last couple of years . |
| 5 | Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing . |
| 6 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 7 | Simply expressed , and taking these two points together , pluralists are charged with asking the wrong question ( who participates instead of who benefits ) about just the public aspect of policy-making so that they ignore the " private " aspect of power and policy-making altogether . |
| 8 | In an attempt to widen share ownership , Matthew Cole , Blues fan and co-editor of the fanzine Tired and Weary , last year offered to surrender 49 of his 50 shares in the club , for just the small cost of the re-registration , to 49 other fans . |
| 9 | She just had to have someone to talk about Fred to , and Jane , who 'd been through exactly the same cycle of experiences with him as Doris had , only one floor below , was the ideal person . " |
| 10 | In cases like these local landowners allowed the construction of only the minimum number of houses needed to accommodate their permanently employed labour force , often in ‘ estate villages ’ . |
| 11 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 12 | The high degree of stylistic affinity maintained between the pavements from Woodchester , Barton Farm and Stonesfield ( section 5.1 ) does suggest the work of much the same group of craftsmen . |
| 13 | Lyle , as defending champion , had to be-jacket Faldo , and coincidentally it signalled the end of perhaps the finest stretch of golf played by a British golfer . |
| 14 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 15 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 16 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 17 | Moreover , the Leicester mosaics themselves can hardly be construed as the work of exactly the same group of craftsmen , because the St. Nicholas Street mosaic appears to include work of a standard below that of any in the Blackfriars mosaic ( see section 4.4 ) . |
| 18 | It seems to be made of exactly the same grade of rosewood as the fingerboard and I think a tighter , less coarse grain would have been more attractive . |
| 19 | In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) . |
| 20 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |
| 21 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 22 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 23 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 24 | Such thoughts lead naturally to the manhood of Christ , the sharp reminder that the Incarnation provides of both the destructive nature of sin and the means by which this destruction is turned back on itself — laid waste . |
| 25 | This is probably the result of both the lower volume of distribution and the lower first-pass gastric metabolism of alcohol in women compared with men . |
| 26 | In fact , there was considerable debate in official circles during the time of both the Labour administration of 1945–51 and the subsequent Conservative administration about the consequences of black immigration on the ‘ racial character ’ of the British , and several covert and sometimes illegal administrative measures were put into operation to discourage black immigration ( Carter , Harris and Joshi , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | The phonetic orthography of both the Cyrillic alphabet of Serbia and the Latin alphabet of Croatia and Slovenia made for easier communication and understanding among the Yugoslav peoples and led to common political action . |
| 28 | Mr Rowley is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a member of both the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Credit Management . |
| 29 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 30 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |