Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excitatory effects of somatostatin or octreotide on the sphincter of Oddi may impair biliary and pancreatic duct outflow . |
| 2 | Edward Taylor has the subtlety to realise that comparisons with Christie and Conan Doyle are inevitable , so he 's steered a course that dips into the best of both camps , while creating a distinctive style of his own . |
| 3 | This is a very special eight day cruise that takes in the best of the Elbe river . |
| 4 | Surely it was too predictable that Daisy was going to want to elbow him out ; the feelings that existed between the three of them were substantial enough to forbid anything so trite . |
| 5 | so the scheme , there 's a scheme number as well , I do n't want that yes , that 's one , and that started on the first of August nineteen ninety good that 's fine , yeah , so the information 's there |
| 6 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 7 | Tara 's also read the , the promise that comes in the last of that section . |
| 8 | Though widely distributed across the Arctic , and included among the northernmost of all vegetation , vascular plants are readily susceptible to damage by wind and frost . |
| 9 | Erm , can I imagine erm two abstracted intellects , each of them doing geometrical proofs and say about the two of them is they go through the group of er the infinity of prime numbers , each of them is working that through . |
| 10 | But at the moment serving with the group of churches in Ealy , Bathyclyn and also with erm part time working in Ealy as the youth worker for the community working partly for Dr Barnados partly for the ULT and Methodist and he 'll acting in it as well in Ealy and sponsored by the Global of the United States . |
| 11 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 12 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 13 | This indicates that the Revenue will be prepared to accept returns containing estimated figures provided they are identified , drawn to the inspector 's attention and made to the best of the company 's ( adviser 's ? ) ability . |
| 14 | For example , and the General Secretary was giving examples yesterday so I 'm entitled to do one as well , for example , Islington Council , where a direct Labour organization that had successfully survived and grown through the worst of the Thatcher years and the worst of the Thatcher attack on public services has now fallen victim to a combination of a weak and corrupt Labour Council and an incompetent senior management . |
| 15 | There are other quotes but I will save these for my submission to District Council if needed on the fourth of January . |
| 16 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 17 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 18 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 19 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 20 | Of these Tom Cruise established himself as a powerful actor and major star in Rainman ( 1989 ) and Born on the Fourth of July ( 1990 ) . |
| 21 | The camerawork too is restlessly European , bobbing and zooming like the worst of ITV 's continental movies and , like the production it satirises , lacking any coherent approach to design . |
| 22 | Later , in 1077 , the great pilgrimage church was begun and , all along the route from the French frontier , Romanesque pilgrimage churches were built to give shelter and succour to the thousands of pilgrims . |
| 23 | ‘ When I see him racing I yell and scream with the best of them , ’ Sharon confesses . |
| 24 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |
| 25 | After a stop for lunch ( not included ) your coach will take you to the famous Keukenhof Flower Gardens where you can spend the afternoon at leisure wandering around the 65 acre estate and marvel at the millions of flowers displayed with perfect artistry in the greenhouses and beautiful landscaped gardens . |
| 26 | Visit the famous Keukenhof Gardens and marvel at the thousands of flowers displayed with perfect artistry in the greenhouses and beautiful landscaped gardens spread across the 65 acre estate . |
| 27 | It is time to give serious consideration to a standing United Nations army , perhaps paid for by the rich and manned by the poor of the world . |
| 28 | Owen bellowed orders , and the bushes threshed as the Welsh circled their enemies and took to the thickest of the woodland on their way to the river valley . |
| 29 | The deep male voice was cold , harsh , and touched with the faintest of Italian accents . |
| 30 | The contrasting pattern characteristic of Wernicke 's aphasia and illustrated by the second of the patients of Funnell ( 1983 ) — whose attempt at a description of Figure 15 we also quoted earlier in this chapter — could be interpreted , in terms of Garrett 's model , as arising when there is a defect of the process which selects the required major lexical items from the lexicon . |