Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Hall Country House Hotel and Restaurant , Sutton Coldfield , was presented with the Wedgwood Fine Dining Award for recognition of serving the finest cuisine in the most elegant of surroundings . |
| 2 | As a further precaution , the addresses of Israeli staff were not printed in official diplomatic lists for fear of encouraging the impulsive gesture at a time when Israel was being a little hard to take . |
| 3 | The American Congress is wary of helping the non-communist resistance in Cambodia , for fear of helping the fierce Khmers Rouges . |
| 4 | The editor of the left-wing magazine Towards 2000 went into hiding on April 12 following a police raid in his absence on his office and residence , and the magazine 's publishers , Hürriyet , announced they would cease publishing the magazine for fear of violating the new rules on censorship . |
| 5 | The provincial spectacles were always on a much smaller scale since governors and wealthy patrons could never attempt to emulate the extravagant shows in Rome for fear of arousing the suspicious jealousy of the reigning Emperor . |
| 6 | Extradition from Britain was blocked for fear of unsettling the post-war anti-Communist government of Italy . |
| 7 | He never went below , for fear of disturbing the little girls . |
| 8 | This is particularly emphasised in progressive municipal boroughs , whose opposition is written off as the insanity of the ‘ loony left ’ , to the extent that the Labour Party itself seems nervous of suggesting anything socialist or progressive for fear of losing the middle ground . |
| 9 | But most big stores admit they dare n't put prices up for fear of losing the few customers they have . |
| 10 | There was a time when teachers had , above all , to be careful not to speak with the voice of Methodism or Anglo-Catholicism , for fear of offending the sectarian passions of the parents . |
| 11 | To submit to unemployment or slums or want , to let children go hungry or sick and old unattended , for fear of increasing the internal national debt , is to lose all sense of proportion . ’ |
| 12 | Are you still finding yourself in a condition where the model is sitting quite happily in the hover some distance away , but you are reluctant to apply some control input for fear of doing the wrong thing ? |
| 13 | So it 's not a lot of lot of bother the only thing is that i you got ta drive in town rather than drive on country lanes to get to the main roads little bit more dangerous as far as getting caught is concerned ha ! |
| 14 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 15 | The improvements on conventional systems analysis resulting from the use of these techniques is gained both from the point of view of understanding the real-world processes that they represent and in communicating the knowledge acquired . |
| 16 | It is important , both from the point of view of understanding the psychological factors underlying response to noise , and from the point of view of practical policy decisions , to assess the persistence of this effect of change in noise level . |
| 17 | Another Challenge Tour player with potential of making the big time is Kevin Golding . |
| 18 | Looping a line over the crosstrees , he set the storm jib , sheeting it out to port in hope of putting the greater strain on the starboard stays . |
| 19 | And in thinking of replacing the reverend with a ‘ thrusting businessman ’ , which Waddington believe ‘ is more than suitable for the 1990s ’ , they have shown themselves to be even more out of tune with modern times . |
| 20 | I want to suggest that joint problem-solving consultancy approaches — developed to maximise existing expertise — can and need to be geared to prevent this from happening , and to consolidate and further such developments in aid of meeting the special educational needs of all children . |
| 21 | Unless the records are stored singly there is no corresponding improvement in speed of finding the desired record , because the access comb will reach the track at a point decided by chance , and there will be an average delay of at least half a revolution before the start of the record is reached . |
| 22 | Prague , the much vaunted Sleeping Beauty is in danger of enduring the same fate as Venice , with the Sleeping Beauty being snogged to death by the West . |
| 23 | By assuming that modern consciousness is filled by objectified representations , social representation theorists may be in danger of overemphasizing the internal homogeneity of the contemporary popular outlook . |
| 24 | ‘ A small minority of competitors are very much in danger of spoiling the good image of equestrian sport , ’ she said . |
| 25 | But they too were in danger of meeting the same fate , and for the same reason : the document safeguarding the rights of the monastic community , which St Thomas had intended to make , did not exist . |
| 26 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 27 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |
| 28 | But her experiences on Eldorado have left her convinced that bureaucracy is in danger of ruining the final on-screen product . |
| 29 | An architecture centre is in danger of doing the same thing and , to that extent , is distinctly against the interests of the membership as a whole . |
| 30 | In attempting to repair it however , we seem to be in danger of fixing the wrong thing . |