Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , to treat presence of the other party within England and Wales as the factor which determines whether a transaction is within the ambit of the sections would be to adopt a criterion which would be capricious in the extreme . |
| 2 | The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple 's allowance . |
| 4 | These secretaries also began to attend meetings of the royal council , though merely as clerks , not as members , and in 1559 were given the title of secretaries of state . |
| 5 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 6 | The arrangements to harmonise aspects of the current approval systems , which were outlined in ‘ Update ’ No 23 are nearing completion . |
| 7 | To make predictions about nuclear shapes a model needs to include aspects of the individual motion of the neutrons and protons . |
| 8 | James Williamson and Partners as the employer was prepared to meet part of the extra travel costs . |
| 9 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 10 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 11 | Four days later , Raybestos ' managing director , Ted Deane , accompanied by 12 gardai , met a human barrier of some 60 men , women and children when he attempted to gain access to the Barnahely dump , all of whom refused to accept copies of the interlocutory injunction . |
| 12 | When the messenger arrived to inform Drake of the possible invasion , the old sea dog announced he would finish his game of bowls , then he would finish off the Spanish . |
| 13 | ‘ Written to preface performances of The Magic Flute , my Serenade ends with a loud , high chord of E flat , the first chord of the opera . |
| 14 | Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres . |
| 15 | However , over the past five years , a new industry has developed that makes and markets machines whose purpose and promise is that they can outthink humans in an arena traditionally thought to demand reasoning of the highest sort . |
| 16 | UK filmmakers abandoned their innovations with film narrative , producing instead dull , static recordings of theatrical productions in order to secure pictures of the required length . |
| 17 | Finally , the Disclosure Directive contains a transitional provision which is intended to inform companies of the up-to-date position when the Directive is implemented . |
| 18 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 19 | For those entries indicated , hyphen signs may also be used immediately after closing square brackets to indicate continuation of the same entry on the next line . |
| 20 | For those entries indicated , hyphen signs may also be used immediately after closing square brackets to indicate continuation of the same entry on the next line . |
| 21 | A " special court " was established to try officials of the old regime . |
| 22 | Pat Devine , secretary of the NUWM , summed up the whole Communist objection to ILP concept of the United Front as meaning a formal alliance between groups . |
| 23 | The Council , a quasi-legislative body drawn from various social and economic groups , was designed to supervise actions of the interim government and possessed the theoretical right to veto government measures . |
| 24 | The Far East is also an important area but it has been difficult to find firms of the requisite standard who are independent . |
| 25 | Of course , the desire to obtain control of the written word has always been one indication of the autocratic mind . |
| 26 | This issue of UPDATE aims to provide details of the new system for those who are involved professionally in vocational education and training . |
| 27 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 28 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 29 | The Commission could have put forward the first of these amendments separately from the Fifth Directive , and may have chosen its course in order to revive consideration of the Fifth Directive as a whole . |
| 30 | Despite his decreased speed , he had to squint against the onrush of the slipstream buffeting through the ragged hole before him , in order to catch sight of the other car . |