Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Economic Warfare hung on the periphery and stirred the witches ' brew . |
| 2 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |
| 3 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 4 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 5 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 6 | Personalities , presentational skills , prejudices , and political dogmas all play their part , but the working of the market-place helps the coinage of sound argument to drive out the counterfeit of special pleading . |
| 7 | In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence . |
| 8 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 9 | The balance of this manifesto sets out the Liberal Democrat vision of the future : our long-term programme for government . |
| 10 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 11 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 12 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 13 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 14 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 15 | A groan of real sympathy came down the line . |
| 16 | The influence of Central Office toned up the rest of the organization . |
| 17 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 18 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 19 | She joined a group of young women , each wrapped in a shawl and carrying a short-handled hoe for weeding and a smouldering disc of dried cow-dung to ward off the midges that plague the mornings and evenings of the rainy season . |
| 20 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 21 | Treaty four questions on the interpretation of provisions of Community law governing , in particular , the right of establishment and of the principles of proportionality and non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , with a view to determining the compatibility with Community law of national legislation laying down the conditions for the registration of fishing vessels . |
| 22 | Iskandara had changed into an afternoon dress of soft black wool with huge puffed upper sleeves and rows of little jet buttons down the bodice . |
| 23 | It is just as well , in view of the profusion of black ink blotting out the salient points in Goya 's Maja Desnuda ( ‘ Homeless masterpieces ’ , May 1st ) , that there are no plans to publicly exhibit this or other similarly rude paintings in Indonesia . |
| 24 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 25 | Use a brace with a bit of matching size to bore out the stubs of the broken rungs |
| 26 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 27 | The smell of roasting flesh drifted up the shaft . |
| 28 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 29 | 2.14 The Landlord shall procure that the obligations of the contractor under clause of the Building Contract are complied with within the period applicable but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 [ of this agreement and in clause [ s ] of the Lease ] the Landlord shall with effect from the Certificate Date be under no liability to the Tenant in respect of any failure to carry out the Works in accordance with clauses 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 ( save as regards matters specified in any Defects Notice which were not remedied to the Surveyor 's [ reasonable ] satisfaction ) The part of this clause commencing … but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 … to the end of the clause should be deleted , as a tenant may consider it unreasonable for a landlord to exempt itself from liability in this manner . |
| 30 | with sort of a trail of red blood coming out the middle ! |