Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 2 | Delayed maturation Some researchers have indicated that persistence of bedwetting after the age of 5 years is due to delayed maturation of the necessary mechanisms ( Bakwin and Bakwin 1972 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ All who have become aware of the plight of Tony Bland and the anguish of his parents will have been moved by the agony of their dilemma and the acute difficulty of coming to the right decision . |
| 4 | Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? |
| 5 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 6 | Each project requires specific conditions but the general thrust will be to secure guaranteed or priority access for target participants/bodies , at charges which are not disadvantageous compared to the normal level of charging for the facility or type of facility . |
| 7 | And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road . |
| 8 | There was a strong smell of burning in the air . |
| 9 | The batting failures were mainly due to a lack of experience on dusty , turning wickets where the normal technique of hitting through the line with heavy bats from a static base was wholly inadequate . |
| 10 | His body was brought over from New York by Mary Read and fifty Girls representing troupes all over the country met at Westminster Bridge Road and had the strange experience of travelling in the Necropolis Funeral train to Brookwood Cemetery . |
| 11 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 12 | Projects here include an examination of West European interests in Eastern Europe ; a study of Soviet relations with Britain ; West European experience of negotiating with the Soviet Union ; and the impact of information technology on the Soviet system . |
| 13 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 14 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 15 | Notice that talk of caring about the weakest and most vulnerable first may already , even when expressed so generally , have important implications for any consideration of the allocation of scarce technological resources to the care , for example , of neonates . |
| 16 | The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon . |
| 17 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 18 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 19 | At this stage , we have an opportunity to ensure that the legislation will allow their voices to be heard through formal channels so that they do not have to resort to the usual practice of writing to the appropriate organisations . |
| 20 | Before we confront their beliefs we need to know something of their setting , but this will not take long to recount ; I shall adopt the anthropologist 's familiar if sometimes confusing practice of writing in the ‘ ethnographic present ’ tense . |
| 21 | He started by saying that after Montaine 's death Jean-Claude had survived in the dark — a dirty , torn piece of sacking over the window and newspaper plugging the broken panes , obscuring the merest ray of sunlight . |
| 22 | Develop this approach as the heart of any teaching you do : it stresses the visual and auditory side of spelling for the pupil , and also helps him to understand how the patterns of spelling work . |
| 23 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 24 | I started a quarter stern attack and had the unpleasant experience of flying down the middle of a cone of tracer from the rear gunner . |
| 25 | This kind of squabbling in the courts was most unseemly , and The Daily Mail launched an angry editorial broadside : ‘ There were cyclists on the jury , we read , and this fact has a grim sound … |
| 26 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 27 | There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look . |
| 28 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 29 | It turned out the manager of the shop , Mr Farrer , was gay and it was n't long before there was a different kind of developing in the darkroom . |
| 30 | This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter . |