Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 2 | The meeting had been called by the party 's political bureau , which on Aug. 27 had accused the extreme right of using events in the Soviet Union to relaunch an attack on the party . |
| 3 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 4 | Tatiana Rovkatch , 12 , remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant . |
| 5 | Probably as a result of seeing photographs in the Great Exhibition in London and at the Société Héliographique in Paris , Fenton began his own photographic experiments . |
| 6 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 7 | R.S. engaged the spouses of relocating employees in the new location when this was appropriate and publicised employment opportunities in the surrounding area . |
| 8 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 9 | Potten et al have recently described a software package which generates frequency plots of labelling indices against the exact cell position within the crypt . |
| 10 | The impact of the ending of job opportunities in an overcrowded London , combined with the effect of the Speenhamland system of subsidising wages under the old Poor Law , produced an underpaid , stable , demoralised and pauperised work force by the early nineteenth century which reached its maximum income relatively early . |
| 11 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 12 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 13 | Later in the 1970s Idi Amin , then dictator of Uganda , was accused of eating parts of the human beings who , indubitably , died in his torture camps . |
| 14 | Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous . |
| 15 | One of the functions of grooming lies in the causal relation between interactions and mutual support . |
| 16 | Hence in competitive equilibrium the price system no longer equates the social marginal cost of producing films with the social marginal benefit of consuming films . |
| 17 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 18 | He moved his lips against the sensitive lobe of her ear , then trailed a row of devouring kisses across the high jut of her breasts to the erect peaks of her nipples . |
| 19 | Microtympanometry , a sensitive method of diagnosing effusions of the middle ear , could help them in this . |
| 20 | Amid allegations in early June that rebels loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor were obstructing the deployment of peacekeeping troops of the Economic Community of West Africa States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , six Senegalese ECOMOG soldiers were reported to have been killed in NPFL-held territory . |
| 21 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 22 | Arms flick to and fro as the Winter Fairy and the Stars of Ashton 's Cinderella give the illusion of twinkling lights in the frosty air . |
| 23 | In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day , the wheat had been sorted from the chaff . |
| 24 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 25 | Especially Campbell — ‘ By-the-book ’ Campbell as he was known — a nickname he was secretly proud of , though he publicly deplored the practice of addressing officers of the British Army in any other way than by proper rank . |
| 26 | The Communists were realizing the possibility of forming alliances with the national leadership of other Left-Wing parties . |
| 27 | Given that background , my hon. Friend is right in saying that — as we have often commented — the Israelis ought to halt the policy of establishing settlements in the occupied terrorities which is provocative and , in our view , illegal . |
| 28 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 29 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 30 | In effect , these programs assume that the task of extracting edges from the visual image has been completed , and concentrate on converting a set of lines into a 3-D interpretation . |