Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controls on illegal trade in animals and plants will effectively disappear with the introduction of the European single market at the start of 1993 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 3 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 4 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 5 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 6 | I should perhaps explain in the context of your various questions when I say that erm we do want to become involved in these things , that , at this stage , and we 've only held two meetings , we have just identified themes and general areas in which we want to work , and not precise projects or activities . |
| 7 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 8 | These relations , which are part of economic practice , can only exist in the context of a legal system which establishes individual agents as buyers and sellers . |
| 9 | I mean , to be quite honest about it , it 's a , it 's an unsatisfactory settlement , from whichever political party that you come from , and it 's about time , perhaps , the conservatives recognised that you ca n't support a national government policy that does as much damage to the people of LIncolnshire as this transport supplementary grant settlement has done . |
| 10 | The only obligations to transfer economic benefits which should not be taken into account are those which would not be considered in accordance with the going concern concept , that is , those which would only arise on the insolvency of the issuer and , where the issuer is expected to be able to comply with covenants on loan and similar agreements , those which would follow a breach of those covenants . |
| 11 | However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases . |
| 12 | He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure . |
| 13 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 14 | Their grants would be reinstated from that date and they will obviously graduate at the end of the appropriate term . |
| 15 | First , and probably of most practical significance , its actions will necessarily be those of its members or officers since , being a legal fiction , it can only act through the instrumentality of human beings . |
| 16 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 17 | It will not happen because the House can not reform itself ; it can only act with the permission of the executive . |
| 18 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 19 | After the October 1979 coup , Archbishop Romero declared that the new regime lacked any popular backing and could only count on the support of a " few foreign powers " . |
| 20 | Greece opposed recognition on the grounds that no country could claim the name of Macedonia ; that the republic , if independent , would only survive as the instrument of another country ; and that it would threaten northern Greece . |
| 21 | Because management is made up of virtually constant negotiation and adjustment it can only flourish in the context of other people . |
| 22 | We can perhaps include in the category of semantic indicator such cases as the dis — of disappoint , disgust , dismay , etc. , and the im — of impertinent , impudent , etc. , if the former is felt to be related to the dis — of dislike and disapprove , and the latter to the im — of impolite ; the segments — appoint , — gust , — may , — pertinent and — pudent have no discernible semantic function , and do not need a label . |
| 23 | The Corporate Plan , recently approved by Council , will greatly assist in the focusing of future budgets . |
| 24 | But did it necessarily grow at the expense of royal power ? |
| 25 | Such deterioration may not necessarily result from the proclamation of commitment . |
| 26 | Changes of emphasis within art education , which have arisen out of a realization that the skills of response and appreciation do not necessarily result from the practice of art , have led to explorations into the nature of aesthetic experience , enquiries into its patterns of development and attempts to assess the skills and achievements possible within this area ( APU , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | He predicted that the Sparc market could only benefit from the presence of a set of viable suppliers of Sparc chips — LSI Logic Corp and Cypress Semiconductor Corp having demonstrated ‘ less of a clear roadmap for the future ’ . |
| 28 | In doing so , it is hoped that they will not only benefit from the content of the seminars ( topics such as sixth-form teaching and exams ) but , by rubbing shoulders with and getting to know British teacher- trainees , come to a better understanding of the role-model of a language teacher in the UK . |
| 29 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 30 | While she awaits her birth into her own voice , she can only speak through the voices of others , but this ‘ speaking through ’ also constitutes her struggle to get out . |