Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 2 | They will have a great deal of expertise to offer within the administrative support function . |
| 3 | They Simply would not have the flexibility or the speed of reaction to cope with the complexities of everyday life . |
| 4 | Water can be lost through dissociation by solar uv radiation and the subsequent loss of hydrogen to space from the exosphere . |
| 5 | Loss of opportunity to respond to the unexpected can be dealt with only by striving to eliminate it . |
| 6 | She filled a jug with water from the pail , found rag , a tankard and another crust of bread to add to the food in her pocket . |
| 7 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 8 | In the meantime , Nobby was engaged in fashioning a piece of metal to fit over the top of the stick . |
| 9 | The relevant experiment , by Walcott and Michener , has not escaped criticism ; but it is not the only piece of evidence to go against the sun arc hypothesis , and even if that hypothesis has not been definitely refuted , we can say that such imperfect evidence as there is counts against it . |
| 10 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 11 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 12 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 13 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 14 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 15 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 16 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 17 | The case is now strong enough for the weight of interest to shift to the other dimension of interpretation . |
| 18 | In creating the epitome of title , it is important to include land charge searches , as well as the old conveyances and mortgage deeds , and , where appropriate , it would also be necessary to include : marriage certificates to deal with apparent changes of name ; death certificates to deal with the death of one of two joint tenants ; a grant of probate to deal with the death of the owner and the appointment of executors ; and any other document that is necessary to prove a coherent line from the root deed . |
| 19 | The discretionary nature of the grant of leave to appeal to the House of Lords avoids any suggestion that there might be abuse of such an approach . |
| 20 | MONICA SELES was forced into a dramatic change of tactic to see off the stubborn challenge of Jana Novotna and reach the semi-finals of the Virginia Slims Championship in New York . |
| 21 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 22 | ‘ What d'yer want , a bit of 'elp to get to the lav ? |
| 23 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 24 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 25 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 26 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , unfilled vacancies were the highest for a year , a further indication that ‘ we are in the right kind of atmosphere to benefit from the recovery ’ . |
| 28 | St Paul understood the distinctive heart of Christianity to lie in the historic facts of the gospel ; the Jesus of history was one with the Christ of his faith , who was also the eternal wisdom of God in creation . |
| 29 | Public disorder incidents are frequently transitory and fleeting events ; the constable has to make quick decisions as to what course of action to adopt for the best . |
| 30 | 20p on gallon of petrol to help save the world |