Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 2 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 3 | Mr Robert Mayor was n't too sure how he would vote in a council election , because of concern over reports of overspending by the hung Wirral authority and the effect on the poll tax . |
| 4 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 5 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 6 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 7 | Nessie had the pig bucket in her hand when she heard the noise of singing in the early evening air . |
| 8 | These drawings stand as works in their own right , and in fact I see painting as an extension of drawing with the added dimension of colour . |
| 9 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 10 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 11 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 12 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 13 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 15 | Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused . |
| 16 | ‘ I think Hasan sort of turns into the Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ said Robert . |
| 17 | Yet the confused young woman that was the real Diana was in grave danger of drowning in the tidal wave of change which had turned her world upside-down . |
| 18 | Isabel paused in the act of stepping into the worn garment and met her maid 's worried brown eyes . |
| 19 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 20 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 21 | Four Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israeli security forces were shot dead and their bodies dumped near the West Bank village of Kafr Rai on Jan. 26 . |
| 22 | Of the estimated 170,000 Palestinians remaining in Kuwait after the Iraqi defeat , a number were killed by Kuwaiti soldiers and civilian vigilantes after being accused of collaborating with the occupying forces . |
| 23 | UNIVERSITIES should gear their publicity machinery away from students and toward industry , In this way , companies that are largely ignorant about research in academe would realise the benefits of collaborating with the educational sector . |
| 24 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 25 | The pattern of labelling with the anti-Bcl-2 antibody was the same in bcl-2 -transfected parental and cells , whereas untransfected cells were not labelled above background ( not shown ) . |
| 26 | In Edinburgh , as in Cardiff , is it not a case of pandering to the nationalistic element in the crowd who , albeit a vociferous minority , chose in former years to whistle and boo when the National Anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was the only anthem to be played ? |
| 27 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 28 | The conceptualizations of police work that are found in Easton not only fit what is known of police forces elsewhere , they parallel the portrayal of policing in the wider culture . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |
| 30 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |