Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 2 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 3 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 4 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 5 | Holders of one of the qualifications listed below who , in addition , may be required by the centre to undertake , prior to or during the early part of the course , a centre devised programme of bridging studies . |
| 6 | Was the figure of 40,000 million gallons of flood water to which James Rougvie refers passing Perth in an hour , a day or during the whole period of the flood ? |
| 7 | It is difficult to sustain untruths and false masks over twelve months of contact in the field , particularly when this contact involves sharing private moments with respondents , such as those provided in the canteen or during the quiet hours of the might shift , tiding in the back of a vehicle or on security duty in the sanger ( guardpost ) . |
| 8 | Or for the total luxury of the Hotel Golden Tulip St. Honore , three nights including flights at an unbelievable £292 . |
| 9 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 10 | Provided that an applicant for the renewal of a licence or for the permanent transfer of a licence need not attend or be represented unless the applicant has been cited by the board to attend the meeting . |
| 11 | Given that there is no physical reason for either the strong antibiasing ( ) required on all scales , or for the non-zero value of , we do not consider this option further ( but see ref. 35 for an alternative view ) . |
| 12 | Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised . |
| 13 | We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person . |
| 14 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 15 | Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys . |
| 16 | He accepts unquestioningly that both sensation and reflection are modes of observation : he refers to ‘ our observation , employed either about external sensible objects , or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves ’ . |
| 17 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 18 | A good deal can be achieved inexpensively through repair ( for instance of tom or loose pages ) or through the simple expedient of cleaning laminated covers . |
| 19 | Even when there was freedom to choose between various options , set books and so on , the menu itself was not open to negotiation , except in the special case of ‘ Mode 3 ’ , or through the protracted process of making representations to the Examination Boards . |
| 20 | Now that the causal effect of such life events has been established , the research effort is turning to ask how an event such as unemployment has its effect : is it through the loss of social esteem , through the decline of self-evaluation and self-esteem , through lack of cash or through the sheer effect of inactivity ( Eales 1986 ) ? |
| 21 | Unfortunately they may also prove a hindrance if BSL is presented only as manual English , through the tutor 's adherence to English or through the other necessity of providing English syntax for deaf people one is in contact with , since ‘ it will help their English ’ . |
| 22 | He could have learned who had perpetrated the deed either from Andrus or through the ordinary gossip of the bazaars . |
| 23 | I much prefer the system of devolved power to individual schools either by their becoming grant-maintained schools or through the local management of schools . |
| 24 | Yet they all certainly benefit from the much closer coordination of industry and finance , whether this is through preferential interest rates from a number of different banks or through the advisory functions of their main lenders . |
| 25 | With the notable exception of Britain most of them in one way or another involved the banks , either directly or through the fashionable device of the crédit mobilier , a sort of industrial finance company which regarded the orthodox banks as insufficiently suited to or interested in industrial financing and competed with them . |
| 26 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 27 | From exposure to dry cold winds or after the premature disappearance of a rash . |
| 28 | ‘ We therefore feel it prudent to hold a spread of European bonds , including the higher yielding bonds , where after the Danish rejection of Maastricht , most of the interest rate convergence of the last two years had already been reversed and the fall in bond prices this year discounted part of the currency high which has crystallised . ’ |
| 29 | Pope John was not weak , was not a compromiser , was not indulgent towards erroneous opinions or towards the so-called inevitability of history etc . |
| 30 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |