Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , as interpreters of animal behaviour we have our own convenience to consider ; to dissolve species ( and human societies too , as in classical economics ) into uniformly egoistic atoms offers much the best prospect of finding simple laws to apply to them . |
| 2 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 3 | It may be observed that the linear regression line in Fig. 1 represents only the general tendency of the association between women 's age at first marriage and at first birth . |
| 4 | The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [ a Member of IMRO and of SFA ] represents only The royal Bank of Scotland Marketing Group for life assurance , pensions and unit trust business . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 6 | Unstable rock , high on the left flank , periodically cascades down the lower section of the route . |
| 7 | And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace . |
| 8 | An ambulatory round the central octagon joins together the four chapels of the smaller ones . |
| 9 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 10 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 11 | Indeed , the party might well stay in power unless the Liberals win outright since it has much the better chance of putting together a coalition with other parties . |
| 12 | For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben . |
| 13 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 14 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 15 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 16 | This illustrates better the total effect of stratification on the boundary layer ( but the reduction of all cases to a single curve is lost ) . |
| 17 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 18 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 19 | Another crustacean , Copilia , has perhaps the strangest eye of all , for it scans the world in way very reminiscent of a television camera . |
| 20 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . |
| 22 | Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice . |
| 23 | In the leading role , singer-turned-actor Dutronc has exactly the right quality of physical frailty and stooped sadness to complement Pialat 's beautiful , poignant images . |
| 24 | The makers Schott claim that this porous glass material has exactly the right combination of aerobic and anaerobic opportunities for bacterial growth . |
| 25 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
| 26 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 27 | Although Mr Melding , a first-time candidate , has not the faintest chance of winning , he is reluctant to dwell gloomily on the fact . |
| 28 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 30 | Shift operator adds just the right amount of vitamins to the mix . |