Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 15 year follow up of a controlled trial of grommets versus myringotomy showed no long term impairment of hearing in the grommeted ear . |
| 2 | The spring entertainment of looking round the developers ' show houses might even translate into more sales — the combination of better weather and a better economic climate is a formidable friend for the salesman . |
| 3 | Erm if at some time in the future a local plan picked up a change in circumstances and made a cogent argument inn favour of varying from the strategic framework , we would have to consider that on its merits . |
| 4 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 5 | It is quite common to insert further provisions prohibiting the offeree group from entering into contracts or commitments involving more than a stated sum or for a longer period than , say , a year , or entering into other transactions which are outside the routine course of trading without the consent of the acquirer . |
| 6 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 7 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 8 | I suppose it is the bat equivalent of looking at the world through a lens . |
| 9 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Glen Coe , freshly graduated Doctor Grant Farquhar , with assistance from Gary Latter , climbed Up With The Sun — a line that starts next to Uncertain Emotions the heads up and right to the remaining peg on Risk Business , follows that route to its belay and then boldly climbs the arête left of Gone With The Wind crux to belay as for Carnivore . |
| 10 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 11 | Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side . |
| 12 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 13 | With the changeover from a counter service to a self service style of shopping in the 195Os , a great revolution in packaging techniques was required . |
| 14 | There is the obvious price dodge of skimping on the thickness of silver , measured by cutlers in microns — which can be anything from one to 50 . |
| 15 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 16 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 17 | start date of going onto the scheme , |
| 18 | The research showed that while there is a great similarity in routine policing in Northern Ireland and more socially integrated societies , despite the common sense image of policing in the province , routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's social and communal division . |
| 19 | Sherfey thinks women need to be in closer touch with their life purpose of caring for the species . |
| 20 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 21 | To understand them it is necessary to recollect that the period immediately after the publication of Morgenthau 's book was one in which a new behaviourist wave of thinking about the social sciences was sweeping the US academic community . |
| 22 | The project focuses on the immediate health impact of smoking on the pupils and encourages parents to reinforce the messages from school and to show disapproval of smoking . |
| 23 | Dittmar , incredibly , tried a backhand volley return of serve into the side-wall nick . |
| 24 | The German helm type of covering to the square or polygonal tower was especially typical of the Rhineland , of which the Church of the Apostles in Cologne is a notable example ( 328 ) . |
| 25 | That did it — Redford opposite me , with my track record of talking to the stars ! |
| 26 | The NPV method compares the net present value cost of leasing with the net present value cost of buying . |