Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 2 | It is not for want of trying on the part of The International Tennis Federation . |
| 3 | As can be seen from Table 6 , there is a significant main effect for level of processing for the recognition scores . |
| 4 | I ca n't hear the Playhouse spoke of without trembling ; and shall not dare to look into a News-paper , for fear of meeting with the Name of Cibber |
| 5 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 6 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 7 | It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue . |
| 8 | The chief source of confusion , briefly , is a conflation of the criteria of sameness of meaning with the meaning of " sameness of meaning " . |
| 9 | Above this number the staff-student relationship , vital in medicine , deteriorates rapidly , with concomitant loss of quality of teaching at the bedside and in the laboratory . |
| 10 | It is rather one of lack of understanding on the part of others , of ignorant if well-meaning insensitivity towards a sensitive child and adolescent . |
| 11 | From the comparatively simple point of view of learning pronunciation , these problems are not particularly important ; however , from the point of view of learning about the phonology of English they are too important to ignore . |
| 12 | However , it should not be thought that Type I systems are non-problematic from the point of view of planning for the health ( care ) needs of a population . |
| 13 | Again , start with Card 1 for ease of laying in the yarns . |
| 14 | It was beautiful and luxurious and designed both as status symbol and for ease of living for the emperor himself . |
| 15 | On 28 April the Lisbon forces disembarked at Ponta de São Laurenço under cover of firing from the ships . |
| 16 | Physical and mental stress between the ages of 2 and 3 years cause a significant increase in persistence of bedwetting after the age of 4 years ( Stein and Susser 1967 ) . |
| 17 | In defence of concentrating on the sentence , different teachers and different learners might give different answers . |
| 18 | Here again I think that you 're in danger of drifting from the essential feature , which is that in the absence of a requirement to take land out of the greenbelt , the whole of the area er within the general extent of the greenbelt as approved by the Secretary of State erm has a greenbelt function . |
| 19 | The Zambian capital of Lusaka , and surrounding towns , may be in danger of sinking into the ground because of the increasing numbers of water boreholes being drilled in the area . |
| 20 | We have to answer an er your Lordships are in danger of getting into the mood of treating this debate as a charge with a single issue to be decided on a single voter . |
| 21 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 22 | Your first-class generalist , especially your Oxford first-class generalist , is always in danger of retreating to the mediaeval schoolmen and wondering how many Flying Scotsmen could be delayed on the head of a pin . |
| 23 | The ruling Gaullists and the Communists alike were in danger of cracking under the strain of the May Events . |
| 24 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 25 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 26 | In Bangladesh , Oral Rehydration Therapy was in danger of falling into the trap of being inappropriate for the people that it was intended to help . |
| 27 | It nearly over , we were in danger of going off the road with it . |
| 28 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |
| 29 | Seen in this light , both Cairns-Smith 's theory and the primeval-soup theory seem if anything in danger of erring on the side of being too plausible ! |
| 30 | Jean Richet , director in charge of restructuring at the Montpellier plant sums it up when he says : ‘ if we are able to sell outside then we are competitive and if we are competitive we can demonstrate this to IBM ’ . |