Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is necessary to introduce some significant qualifying remarks about the current direction of policies and procedures in many authorities . |
| 2 | There is just one observation I wish to make to the Committee this afternoon and it actually goes about the whole issue of the planning aspect of what 's gone on . |
| 3 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |
| 4 | The spiny newt of China goes through the same sort of contortions to warn off those that threaten it and adds a special deterrent all its own . |
| 5 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 6 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 7 | Fellow MP Nigel Spearing agrees about the historical significance of the route . |
| 8 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 9 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 10 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 11 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 12 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 13 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
| 14 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 15 | The socialists had concentrated — in their aim for a better world — on the contradiction points between the social relations of production and the productive forces and ignored those between human production and the natural world . |
| 16 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 17 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 18 | The cooperation of consumers enabled the disruption of production to be minimised ; and the industry 's expertise in avoiding the more serious problems developed with experience and with the higher priorities they were granted for scarce coal supplies after the disastrous crisis of February 1947 . |
| 19 | Today , much confusion exits about the proper definition of entrepreneurship . |
| 20 | Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model . |
| 21 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 22 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 23 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 24 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 25 | EDWIN POUNCEY sifts through the latest crate of weirdness from the States , including The Cramps , Green On Red and a farmhand singing the psychedelic blues |
| 26 | It is noticeable that in all 3 cases presented in Table 8.2 , the share price declines as the required rate of return increases . |
| 27 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 28 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 29 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 30 | In ‘ The Tale of the Turnip ’ , Yevgeny Yevtushenko writes about the virtual annexation of Russia by capitalist influences under the guise of ‘ humanitarian aid ’ ; Andrei Voznesensky laments the bloodshed in Tbilisi in ‘ Candles and Tanks . ’ |