Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exclusive competence of states with regard to the grant of their nationality was a manifestation of their sovereignty . |
| 2 | Between groups , categories , communities and societies there will be different mixes and levels of competences in dealing with the outside world which will inevitably affect their conceptualisation of it , the resources available to them , and their response to it . |
| 3 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 4 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 5 | Other Cabinet changes prompted by Keating 's resignation were : the appointment of Simon Crean in place of Kerin ; the appointment of Ross Free to replace Crean as junior Minister for Science and Technology ; and the addition of responsibility for Housing to the portfolio of Brian Howe . |
| 6 | Within a couple of minutes of going over the destroyer 's port side , Donald Roy 's kilted Scotsmen were attacking the pumphouse 50 yards from the caisson ( 'H' on diagram p. 41 ) . |
| 7 | It observes one of Wilde 's principles of literature in responding to the importance of not being ‘ serious ’ . |
| 8 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 9 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 10 | erm That 's one point , the other point is of course , we have already targeted of course in working with the groups that we 've defined as erm ones whose health status is at risk in effect , so this is a supplement , this is actually translating those targets we have already defined into a locality planning exercise . |
| 11 | There was also a lot of resistance to moving from the church to a new permanent home . |
| 12 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 14 | The chief source of confusion , briefly , is a conflation of the criteria of sameness of meaning with the meaning of " sameness of meaning " . |
| 15 | Many wealthy people will be prevented by their love of money from entering into the Kingdom . |
| 16 | The probable sequence of events in erecting such a structure would begin with the excavation of the flat-bottomed wall-trenches dug into the chalk which , judging from the evidence of signs of pecking on the trench sides , were made with a pointed tool . |
| 17 | As Cotte points out , allow and let evoke permission in different ways : the latter seems incapable of evoking the giving of permission without evoking at the same time the realization of the action permitted ( cf. ( 216b ) ) , whereas allow is not subject to this restriction . |
| 18 | The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that events in Great Britain , but also more recent developments in the Federal Republic of Germany with regard to the increasing purchase of firms by fishing undertakings from other member states and the attempted re-flagging of fishing vessels from other member states , showed that the stability objective pursued by the Common Fisheries Policy might be impaired . |
| 19 | The Government , in threatening to ignore the will of Parliament in regard to the Maastricht treaty , is also threatening to break one of its professedly sacred principles , namely the sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 20 | It also suggests that there may be scope for significantly reducing the number of committals without interfering with the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 21 | The social scientist gains an understanding of the meaning of action through living with the group which he wants to understand . |
| 22 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 23 | Any interested members may obtain a copy of the Memorandum of Guidance by writing to the Secretary . |
| 24 | Ursus differentiated his scheme from that of Tycho by insisting on the daily rotation of the earth . |
| 25 | The main area of confusion with regard to the Jewish attitude to women concerns the laws of marriage , particularly in respect of menstruation and childbirth . |
| 26 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 27 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 28 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 29 | The successes first of Constantius and then of Aëtius in dealing with the Germanic invaders obscure the real weakness of the Roman position . |
| 30 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |