Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delayed maturation Some researchers have indicated that persistence of bedwetting after the age of 5 years is due to delayed maturation of the necessary mechanisms ( Bakwin and Bakwin 1972 ) . |
| 2 | Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? |
| 3 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 4 | Notice that talk of caring about the weakest and most vulnerable first may already , even when expressed so generally , have important implications for any consideration of the allocation of scarce technological resources to the care , for example , of neonates . |
| 5 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 6 | This kind of squabbling in the courts was most unseemly , and The Daily Mail launched an angry editorial broadside : ‘ There were cyclists on the jury , we read , and this fact has a grim sound … |
| 7 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 8 | There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look . |
| 9 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 10 | This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter . |
| 11 | Incidentally re : all this talk of getting into the programme and that — if we go ‘ overground ’ you can kiss goodbye to references to Man U as pigs , scum etc or any abuse of opposition anywhere . |
| 12 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 13 | erm the policies are offered in general most dealers in fairness this question of charging for the policy , in the majority of dealers that we 've actually got they include it within the within the purchase price of the vehicle anyway . |
| 14 | There is little great poetry that has not come from the frost of sorrow , and this is the supreme compensation that the creative man has this faculty of distilling from the very substance of sorrow , a beauty that transforms the world into paradise . |
| 15 | Ironically , the International Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution will ban this type of dumping in the Gulf from 2 ( Sober . |
| 16 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 17 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 18 | So we need people with different personalities and different types to be within that within any group for a group to be very successful you need some sort of share of the different types of group if you had a predominance of shapers you 'd get nowhere . |
| 19 | What we usually take to be specifically feminist concerns ( e.g. ‘ political ’ ones — whatever that means ) seem often obscured in this body of writing by the theoretical exigencies of semiotics , psychoanalysis , discourse analysis or Althusserian Marxism . |
| 20 | He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre . |
| 21 | Where possible , some overlap of working between the staff employed in the old and new locations can help to ease this difficulty although such arrangements do present their own problems in terms of transporting staff to and from the old or new buildings . |
| 22 | Will the Secretary of State now give a guarantee that no sixth-form college student will be charged for activities in relation to the school curriculum , or is this to be yet another example of pay-as-you-learn under the Conservative Government ? |
| 23 | We may also say that the linguistic expressions ( or their meanings ) that appear in particular token constructions identify entities and properties ( and we shall feel free to extend this use of identify to the activity of the speakers and writers who use the constructions ) . |
| 24 | ITV , paying £25,000 compared with £200,000 for a live broadcast , was accused earlier this week of acting outside the spirit of its £44 million contract with the League . |
| 25 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 26 | To today 's citizen this method of escaping from the monotony of everyday life may seem näive and even ludicrous . |
| 27 | By the mid-1920s the disunity which had plagued China since the 191 1 revolution showed some prospect of ending as the Nationalist party , the Guomindang , consolidated its control over large areas of the country . |
| 28 | This manner of thinking about the family is not just an image that can be presented in advertisements of childrens stories . |
| 29 | This sense of coping with the ‘ business of living ’ was one of the themes that came out from a study conducted by the writer and a colleague from the Tavistock Institute for a client in 1974 ( see Appendix One ) . |
| 30 | Yet this life of contributing to the progress towards knowledge of reality is rational , is a — perhaps the — form of human flourishing . |