Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly American Intelligence was unable to confirm the worst of the fears . |
| 2 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 3 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 4 | No need to accept every one of the invitations which kept on being delivered because of Amabel 's fear of giving offence . |
| 5 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 6 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 7 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 8 | Somebody who wo n't hesitate to shoot a few of the troublemakers as a warning to the rest . |
| 9 | ‘ We have to cross the first of the cordilleras according to the map you showed me . ’ |
| 10 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 11 | It was a hard , fast drive through the congested streets , the girl picking her way expertly through the back streets to avoid the worst of the jams . |
| 12 | This Board , whose role is by no means a formality , as it has to vet every one of the artists shown at the exhibition , is now made up of people who reflect the old groupings : seven Christian Democrats , six Socialists , two PDS ( formerly Communist ) , one Liberal and one Social Democrat . |
| 13 | I 've got to look a one of the notes here hang on . |
| 14 | Although he was only to win a third of the tickets that Rudi had won , this dog was used extensively by successful breeders , which is the true test of a great dog . |
| 15 | The recent collapse of the Communist Party , which used to win a third of the votes , has taken away the vital ingredient of fear that held the system together . |
| 16 | Soon she would have to use the last of the rushes . |
| 17 | In order to appreciate this strong feminist stance that is being taken it is necessary to understand a few of the problems of women in the Developing World . |
| 18 | Barkley suggests that children have the opportunity to save a third of the tokens each day to go towards the special rewards on the ‘ menu ’ . |
| 19 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 20 | A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses . |
| 21 | She was about to ask the nearest of the women when she suddenly realised fully what had happened . |
| 22 | The trials of Bulgaria 's former dictator or a handful of Ceausescu 's secret police serve to scapegoat a few of the ringleaders and put the issue to rest . |
| 23 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |
| 24 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 25 | Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect . |
| 26 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
| 27 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |
| 28 | Let us examine what lessons have been learned about RMI from existing sites and also what are the emerging issues that the service will need to tackle to make the most of the opportunities offered by RMI . |
| 29 | We have in place a framework that will ensure that this country is uniquely advantaged to make the most of the opportunities that will become available in the 1990s . |
| 30 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |