Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 2 | What with the addition of new capabilities to spreadsheets , and the advent of products which push back the frontiers of the electronic spreadsheet concept , it 's becoming a little difficult to draw a line between spreadsheet products and more elaborate financial modelling environments . |
| 3 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 4 | I added , out of pure malice , to Ewen : ‘ And of course you remember where the old loo is . |
| 5 | Sure , of course I know where the dolmen is . |
| 6 | Low resourcing and poor material support encourage teachers to adopt a ‘ survival ’ or ‘ make-do ’ orientation to their work and incline them towards more control-centred , transmission-style patterns of teaching which revolve around the imposition of their own personal authority within the public setting of the classroom . |
| 7 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 8 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 9 | In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them . |
| 10 | Although this sounds obvious , it is quite remarkable how many returning nurses remark on the problems of adjustment they encounter once the initial ‘ honeymoon ’ period of returning is over . |
| 11 | But of course they each depend upon the existence of individuals who carry out the tasks necessary for the survival and perpetuation of society . |
| 12 | It is as though Crabbe 's personal inspiration , which surrounds Grimes with a visionary nimbus , becomes one part of the opera , and the whole series of poems which make up The Borough become the rest of the opera . |
| 13 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 14 | At issue in this seemingly-abstruse dispute is a fundamental question : how to tax the growing number of firms which operate around the world in such a way that each dollar of profit is taxed only once , but firms are discouraged from artificially shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions . |
| 15 | Thus he defines professional jobs as those of producers who define both the needs of the consumer and how those needs should be met . |
| 16 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 17 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 18 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 19 | In addition to the theories discussed above which are concerned with the effect of arousal on performance generally , there are also a number of theories which consider directly the effects of arousal on memory . |
| 20 | In system jargon , the working world is one sub-system within a complete set of sub-systems which make up the total environment or life space of the individual . |
| 21 | Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section . |
| 22 | For a large number of charges we sum up the contribution of each dipole moment . |
| 23 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 24 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 25 | The scores of islands which lie off the Adriatic coast are the crests of mountain ranges which foundered during periods of tectonic disturbances . |
| 26 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 27 | Most optical resists are developed by mixtures of solvents which wash away the more soluble material left after exposure . |
| 28 | One of the principle reasons for the development of anti-school attitudes amongst these young people is the separation and ranking of students according to a multiple set of criteria which make up the normative , academically oriented value system of the school . |
| 29 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 30 | I know of others who feel much the same — it 's called consensus politics , and it requires cooperation and a concentration on what the parties have in common rather than exaggerating their differences . |