Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport . |
| 2 | Much more seriously , the House of Lords in Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v. ACAS ( 1978 ) effectively made the resolution of recognition disputes dependent on the co-operation of employers . |
| 3 | Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment . |
| 4 | Both at home and at school , methodologies may fundamentally obstruct the negotiation of meaning and , in doing so , reduce the likelihood of deaf children enriching their language skills . |
| 5 | Of course , Irish clergy and laity are sometimes at the forefront of political religious change in other countries , and a lively Irish intellectuals ’ religion will continue : but whether or not it will eventually affect the structure of power is another matter . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Whitaker avidly devoured the kind of Boy 's Own adventures typified by such heroes as Bulldog Drummond and any of John Buchan 's creations . |
| 7 | This section will attempt to demonstrate how the Bank of England operates in the sterling money markets and thereby influences the level of interest rates in those markets . |
| 8 | This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man . |
| 9 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 10 | It was they who most resented the contempt of factory management , the humiliation of public examination for venereal diseases , the lack of privacy in the lavatories , the insecurity of their jobs , the degradation of their living quarters . |
| 11 | This opens the way for staff to use their ‘ professional skills ’ to implement their own ideas rather than those of the users , which effectively renders the notion of user participation meaningless ( Carr , 1987 , personal communication ; Jewell , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | Duly completing the acknowledgement of service is recommended . |
| 13 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 14 | It is possible to reconstruct some of the clothing in part through the textile remains in graves , but mostly using the position of dress fasteners such as brooches and buckles ( Cook 1974 ; Bell 1981 ) . |
| 15 | In other words we 've effectively rebuilt the island of information that we used to talk about five years ago and the key motivation behind enterprise client server is really to integrate the efforts of these two groups . |
| 16 | FOR DECADES , professional and amateur politicians , encouraged by a vociferous band of scientists and engineers , have relentlessly pursued the reclamation of land for which the distant eye sees no use . |
| 17 | Into that stream of pure gothic fiction there was eventually added the element of crime or suspected crime , thus bringing into existence the romantic suspense novel . |
| 18 | It is the state which properly exercises the use of force in order to maintain social control , whereas it is in civil society — the family , school , work-place , church , and other non-state institutions — that hegemony operates . |
| 19 | The small community at Grasmere would be the first to experience ‘ the milder day ’ which would eventually include the whole of mankind . |
| 20 | We must know what these facts are in order that we can properly predict the enforcement of reparation , either specific or compensatory , in case of non-performance . |
| 21 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |
| 22 | Very , very soon the secret of life would be revealed , and Ruth would rather know the secret of death . |
| 23 | I eventually described the discipline of anthropology to certain colleagues as ‘ the study of old bones , prehistory , and human evolution you know ; David Attenborough and all that ’ . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Where the seller expressly reserves the right of resale in case the buyer should make default , and on the buyer making default , re-sells the goods , the original contract of sale is rescinded , but without prejudice to any claim the seller may have for damages . ’ |
| 25 | He made a living by journalism , in the 1960s version of Grub Street eventually landing the job of drama critic for Town magazine . |
| 26 | Both to provide for some self-containment , and thereby minimize the degree of out-commuting . |
| 27 | Gramsci argued that a proletarian movement which successfully challenges the domination of capital must not concentrate attention solely on economic or political organization . |
| 28 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |
| 29 | This does , of course , greatly complicate the design of policy — both the substance of competition law , and the institutional framework for implementing that law . |
| 30 | We have been lucky enough to see the Minister of State ; he has been very kind and we have had really good discussions with him . |