Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 2 | ‘ All who have become aware of the plight of Tony Bland and the anguish of his parents will have been moved by the agony of their dilemma and the acute difficulty of coming to the right decision . |
| 3 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 4 | Each project requires specific conditions but the general thrust will be to secure guaranteed or priority access for target participants/bodies , at charges which are not disadvantageous compared to the normal level of charging for the facility or type of facility . |
| 5 | And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road . |
| 6 | There was a strong smell of burning in the air . |
| 7 | The batting failures were mainly due to a lack of experience on dusty , turning wickets where the normal technique of hitting through the line with heavy bats from a static base was wholly inadequate . |
| 8 | His body was brought over from New York by Mary Read and fifty Girls representing troupes all over the country met at Westminster Bridge Road and had the strange experience of travelling in the Necropolis Funeral train to Brookwood Cemetery . |
| 9 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 10 | Projects here include an examination of West European interests in Eastern Europe ; a study of Soviet relations with Britain ; West European experience of negotiating with the Soviet Union ; and the impact of information technology on the Soviet system . |
| 11 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 12 | The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon . |
| 13 | This distribution , as Map 4 shows , extended an existing regional concentration of minting in the north-eastern part of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before we confront their beliefs we need to know something of their setting , but this will not take long to recount ; I shall adopt the anthropologist 's familiar if sometimes confusing practice of writing in the ‘ ethnographic present ’ tense . |
| 16 | He started by saying that after Montaine 's death Jean-Claude had survived in the dark — a dirty , torn piece of sacking over the window and newspaper plugging the broken panes , obscuring the merest ray of sunlight . |
| 17 | Develop this approach as the heart of any teaching you do : it stresses the visual and auditory side of spelling for the pupil , and also helps him to understand how the patterns of spelling work . |
| 18 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 19 | I started a quarter stern attack and had the unpleasant experience of flying down the middle of a cone of tracer from the rear gunner . |
| 20 | It turned out the manager of the shop , Mr Farrer , was gay and it was n't long before there was a different kind of developing in the darkroom . |
| 21 | I can honestly say that the most painful bit of going to the blood donors is the next day when you come to rip the sticky plaster off your arm ( even more so if you 've got as much hair as Arthur Upton ! ) so , if you 've never been — give it a go . |
| 22 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , the repeated comment from a number of dealers was the high level of understanding among the visiting public about prints and printmaking techniques , particularly in comparison to visitors to the New York Works on Paper show . |
| 23 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Budgie is one of Amy 's favourite drummers , and he brought in an African tribal kind of feel to the album . |
| 25 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 26 | He said he was not talking about more money for health services but about more money to enable the council to deal with problems such as condensation and proper insulation of housing in the city . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Make light work of cooking with the help of Philips ' electronic HR2898 food processor . |
| 29 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I had to have my tonsils out when we were in the middle of producing Tamburlaine , which meant that the stage management made a right old mess of pulling on the chariot . |