Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their commitment to the nationalisation programme of Let us Face the Future was fully demonstrated when they revealed their opposition to any attempts to ‘ water down ’ the principle of public ownership , as over civil aviation in 1945–46 and over iron and steel in 1947 . |
| 2 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 3 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 4 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 5 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 6 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 7 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 8 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 9 | ‘ Through this kind of work you see the underside of society . |
| 10 | It is often better to bite your lip and let pupils charge off in the ‘ wrong ’ direction , because the more of this kind of work you do the less you will be able to define ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 11 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 12 | He has already dumped reserves , while yesterday defender Matt Jackson and Stuart Barlow Kendall said : ’ You expect a reaction to the kind of hammering I have the players on Saturday . |
| 13 | ( Also , just because of the difficulty of proving who caused the damage , fire insurers generally find it easier to give the necessary consent to waiver of their subrogation rights , without which the arrangements could not work . ) |
| 14 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 15 | I 'd just like to know from what sort of position you assumed the right to do so , Mr Scott . |
| 16 | Er it was hardly ever er a mother was just sort of given something to ease the pain . |
| 17 | In a deliberate attempt to embarrass Tories and High Anglicans , he cited Charles II 's Declaration of April 1681 , which had condemned the then Whig-dominated House of Commons for arresting people for matters not relating to Parliamentary privilege , whilst in defence of the right of petitioning he cited the case of the seven bishops of 1688 . |
| 18 | Pre-packed filtration systems and the growing emphasis on high-tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss — and better still , a properly bonded filter mat — can play in … raising Zebra Finches . |
| 19 | Pre-packaged filtration systems , and the growing emphasis on high tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss , and better still a properly bonded filter mat can play in filtration . |
| 20 | This seems to fit quite well with the detailed process of manoeuvring which characterized the early period of financial centralization . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , rubber studs did not immediately come into general use because the process of changing them ruined the soles of the boots . |
| 22 | At Mr Baker 's age there was little point and probably less chance of persuading him to change the habits of a lifetime . |
| 23 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 24 | Another basis on which close relationships commonly developed was a pattern of visiting which included the exchange of help and caring between the generations . |
| 25 | His gentle manner of saying it robbed the remark of any reproof it might otherwise have carried . |
| 26 | a method of binding which allows the insertion and removal of pages for continuous updating . |
| 27 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 28 | Could the ecstasy of loving him outweigh the agony of losing him ? |
| 29 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 30 | Where practical skills are involved , this may take the form of observing someone perform the task ( a competent nurse in this case ) and recording in detail what she actually does . |