Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the war , a great deal of redrafting of the official creed took place , and Scouting for Boys was repeatedly updated so that not only was militarism explicitly disowned , but the earlier racial imperialism was swapped for international brotherhood and goodwill . |
| 2 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 3 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 4 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 5 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 6 | The overall pattern of the fields is the result of planning by the late eighteenth-century enclosure surveyors . |
| 7 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 8 | In Aceh Province ( northern Sumatra ) hundreds of people were reported killed and hundreds more missing as a result of fighting between the armed forces and separatist rebels . |
| 9 | Step 7 ( NOTE-THIS CAPTION IS ALSO WITHIN THE PIC ITSELF ) - The result of clicking on the new word count icon — you will notice that it shows a very polished and informative dialog box . |
| 10 | However , in 1969 , a large-scale American project , JOIDES ( Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling ) was able to confirm it , in the course of a programme of drilling into the deep ocean floors to sample the rocks and sediments there . |
| 11 | ‘ We shall protect monuments by accelerating the programme of scheduling under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 . |
| 12 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 13 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 14 | I remember the fear of going up the spiral stairs to bed , the tapestry billowing along the passage with some hidden killer , creaking of wood . |
| 15 | Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth . |
| 16 | The story is told of Guru Nanak that even as a boy he argued that the ancient Hindu ceremony of tying on the sacred thread did not prevent men from acting wrongly . |
| 17 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | At this stage , we have an opportunity to ensure that the legislation will allow their voices to be heard through formal channels so that they do not have to resort to the usual practice of writing to the appropriate organisations . |
| 19 | Because of the difficulty of finding precise equivalents in English , I shall follow the common practice of sticking to the original Russian terms . |
| 20 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 21 | As for President elect Clinton 's oblique references to the asylum laws , one can only assume his administration will have no intention of interfering with the due processes of law in the US . |
| 22 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 23 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 24 | They will take initiative for the sake of ‘ the poor and needy strangers ’ , namely those outside the church who have no intention of going near the institutional church . |
| 25 | But he continues to drink away in his own private time and has no intention of following in the dry footsteps of O'Toole and Harris . |
| 26 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he replies and goes on to ask her to take care of two suitcases full of Austrian shoes he has brought with him with the intention of selling on the black market . |
| 28 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 29 | A slight alteration to the course this year — work going on around the River Mersey means that the runners now have the luxury of running through the elegant Marina Complex , which should speed up the proceedings . |
| 30 | Equally , Thames & Hudson 's ‘ biography ’ of Keith Haring may have seemed a brave piece of publishing to the general bookseller but , supported by T-shirts , badges , posters and cards from te Neues , it pulled in customers who would not normally have stepped inside a Blackwell shop , thanks largely to the non-book items and the extraordinary point of sale from T&H . |