Example sentences of "[subord] the [adv] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the workings of the housing market the local working population tends to congregate on the village council housing estate ( where one is available ) , where the closely knit patterns of neighbourly association which were part of the occupational community are retained . |
| 2 | The news out of Marlborough , Massachusetts-based fault-tolerant Unix systems builder Sequoia Systems Inc continues to get worse , and the company now says that its audited financial results for the year to June 30 will reflect total revenues of about $65.7m as opposed to the $71.0m previously reported , and that the decline in reported revenues will cause the loss for the year to be significantly higher than the previously reported loss of $860,025 . |
| 3 | The reductionist approach was not providing results in cancer research and I thought that something other than the presently known properties of carcinogens had to be involved as a activator . ’ |
| 4 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 5 | He was now nothing more than the neatly tapered ends of corduroy slacks , and a pair of well-worn Canadian hide moccasins . |
| 6 | One of the greatest fascinations of provincial printing in Britain is the diversity of localities where presses were set up , often , for example , along the line of canals , where labour was cheap and plentiful … another fascination being that this is a relatively unresearched area , its local beginnings in the eighteenth century often more obscure than the highly recorded beginnings of early printing . |
| 7 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 8 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 9 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 10 | So there was n't time to ask if the best known tale of the Labeques in Madrid was true . |
| 11 | If the characteristically echinoderm skeleton of calcareous ‘ stereom ’ was acquired before the equally distinctive water-vascular system , then the aberrant cornutes ( which have the first , but not the second ) are a very early branch of echinoderms . |
| 12 | Arguably this advocacy of mercurials for the treatment of syphilis laid the foundations for the success of the paracelsian movement , because the newly arrived scourge of syphilis was the most feared disease of the sixteenth century , occupying a similar position to AIDS in Africa today . |
| 13 | In brief , the Suttonian method comprised treatment which was almost painless and relatively mild in its effects , while the greatly decreased number of pustules lessened disfigurement . |
| 14 | When the newly created Princess of Wales emerged from St Paul 's Cathedral to the cheers of the crowd , hope and happiness brimmed in her heart . |
| 15 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 16 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | The family name was Fuller , and John Fuller — who knew nothing of the brewery trade — decided to bring in a Mr. Turner and a Mr. Smith and they formed a partnership which continues still as the well known firm of Fuller , Smith and Turner . |
| 18 | The S. Pennines , the Lake District , Cumbria and Galloway receive as much acid in a year as the badly acidified parts of southern Norway . |
| 19 | She was well into her thirties , nowhere near as young as the carefully styled fall of blonde hair suggested . |
| 20 | We should view the Bill in the light of the package of panic measures that were announced in December , as the rapidly rising tide of repossessions threatened finally to engulf the remnants of this lame-duck Government . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Sir Michael Checkland , BBC director general , sent a letter to all staff saying there was no ‘ secret agenda ’ to cut 10,000 jobs , though the already stated target of 3,000 job cuts by 1993 still stood . |