Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 2 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 3 | Even the primary right of freedom to dispose of the property as the owner wishes is not absolute . |
| 4 | Reconciling the conflict between the demands of public accountability and the desirability of freedom to operate in the market has proved extremely difficult . |
| 5 | When you make a point of try to listen to the world , |
| 6 | Water can be lost through dissociation by solar uv radiation and the subsequent loss of hydrogen to space from the exosphere . |
| 7 | As it melted , the fuel 's chemical reaction with the surrounding water also caused a bubble of hydrogen to form at the top of the reactor vessel . |
| 8 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 9 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 10 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 11 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 12 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |
| 13 | Many of the trade union leaders wanted of course to go to the front , but the whole process of organising our production … forbade their release . |
| 14 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 15 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 16 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 17 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 18 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 19 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 20 | It might even be possible for Members of Parliament to walk down the street and assess the approximate value of property in one street compared with property in another . |
| 21 | ASHWORTH Hospital has published its plan of action to deal with the recommendations of the public inquiry into conditions at the special hospital . |
| 22 | The call for a day of action to protest against the government 's security policies in the wake of the murder of the Revd Robert Bradford , MP for South Belfast , in 1981 , is an example . |
| 23 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 24 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 25 | Potential will be assessed in other cases , though , against a team who will have millions of pounds worth of talent to spare on the substitutes bench . |
| 26 | The February early morning was chilly , with a hint of snow to come in the air . |
| 27 | But rewards increase out of proportion to price with the wines from named sites . |
| 28 | ( ii ) After about 30 min chop the tubules very finely with scissors in a glass Petri dish tilted slightly , allowing large pieces of tubule to settle to the bottom . |
| 29 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 30 | Cut pieces of muslin to fit over the rims of the containers and hold each of them in place with two large rubber bands . |