Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ambulatory round the central octagon joins together the four chapels of the smaller ones . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 4 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 5 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 6 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 7 | As a director his work embraces both the narrative traditions of French cinema and a critical awareness of the styles and conventions of Hollywood . |
| 8 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 9 | This shows clearly the potential inequalities of the system , with some areas experiencing huge increases in rates as a result of large revaluations , while others are much less affected . |
| 10 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 11 | The factor machine at the side of this page shows how the prime factors of 60 are taken out . |
| 12 | This example shows how the prime factors of 72 are worked out using repeated division . |
| 13 | Figure 3.3 shows how the volume-temperature plots of a gas all extrapolate back to zero volume at 0 K. |
| 14 | Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech . |
| 15 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 16 | Table 6 shows how the respective times of the farmer , his wife , and family , were divided between on-farm and off-farm occupations . |
| 17 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
| 18 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 19 | The kind of novel learning environment that is characteristic of the pilot CPVE schemes now being implemented , which breaks down the traditional barriers of subjects , compartmentalized lessons and didactic teaching , may well spread rapidly into other areas of the school 's work . |
| 20 | From the management 's point of view , any technology that breaks down the old lines of demarcation ( and reduces the number of employees ) is a good investment . |
| 21 | ‘ You British people , ’ he said , ‘ come to our country , you take it over , you make us learn your language , you teach us your history which is full of your own struggles for freedom , you teach us your literature which enshrines just the same principles of freedom , and then you expect us not to want freedom ! |
| 22 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 23 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 24 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 25 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 26 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 27 | The Scottish Development Department states , in an accompanying circular , that the code draws together the best elements of current inquiry practice . |
| 28 | While this is fine for short items it misses out the real benefits of stylesheets . |
| 29 | Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract . |
| 30 | Then , a new epoch of history is born which sweeps away the social relationships of the old order . |