Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 2 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 3 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 4 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 5 | Could my investiture of Mr Broadhurst with such sinister and wide-ranging powers have been my way of dealing with the chronic lack of a proper role model ? |
| 6 | It could easily be nothing more than my way of coping with the consequences of a senseless accident . |
| 7 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
| 8 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |
| 9 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 10 | Anne Harper , until recently a senior executive with BP , heightened the feeling that there is a real and all-too-close-to-home problem when she compared her experience of working with the group 's local company boards in Scandinavia , where partly due to the existence of worker representatives the woman board member is not an unusual phenomenon , and in the machismo-oriented ‘ southern Mediterranean countries of Portugal , Spain and the Republic of Ireland ’ where it is — and promptly included her experiences in Scotland with the latter . |
| 11 | Just as war began the Communist Party had published a short pamphlet How to Win the War , which outlined the Party 's continued opposition to fascism and its intention of participating in the war effort . |
| 12 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 13 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 14 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 15 | The mutineers , driven by weather to abandon their plan of escaping round the Horn into the Pacific , are intercepted and taken back to England , where Jesse and those of his comrades who have survived are tried and hanged . |
| 16 | And yet she must seek new outlets for her work ; she greatly wanted to expand her range of shoemaking outside the humdrum jobs of soling and heeling heavy working boots . |
| 17 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 18 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 19 | Often there are disagreements and the desire to defend their own interpretation can lead learners to stretch their powers of communicating to the utmost . |
| 20 | Far too many amateurs place the ball forward in their stance when pitching , therefore increasing their chance of digging into the ground before the back of the ball . |
| 21 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 22 | ADD argue that their method of dealing with the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy is simpler than that used by Barro ( 1977a ) , in which the equivalent fiscal variable is government expenditure relative to its normal level . |
| 23 | He takes as his criteria for class membership : firstly , the position of individuals in the process of production and their mode of sharing in the distribution of the product ; secondly , control over the labour power of others and thirdly , mode of remuneration . |
| 24 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 25 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 26 | They are not always malicious towards mankind , being known as ‘ kobold ’ or ‘ demons of the mines ’ in Germany , and ‘ coblyns ’ or KNOCKERS in Wales and south-western England , because of their habit of tapping on the shaft wall to identify the whereabouts of a rich lode of ore . |
| 27 | If Rangers can produce a victory tonight 's game — played on neutral territory because of the severe Moscow winter — their prospects of emerging from the group as winners will be enhanced , particularly as the last of their six games will be against what is likely to be an even more depleted Russian side . |
| 28 | INSTONIANS completed their first season back in Section One at the weekend having achieved their objective of staying in the top flight . |
| 29 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 30 | Suttons of Reading brought 138 greenkeepers to Henley to play after a conference — perhaps their year of looking after the course was done with this in mind . |