Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demonstrates once again the sensitivity of the conclusions to the choice of taxes to make up the rest of the package . |
| 2 | It is difficult to see this changing dramatically in spite of attempts to build up the position of the NHS Management Executive and timely clarifications of its role and relationships with the Policy Board , chaired by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 4 | Much time was spent in the formulation of rules to lay down the alignments and éaulements which would best display each movement from the audience 's point of view . |
| 5 | Both the bid for Channel Five and plans for the new Teleport to be operated at South Gyle , carrying signals for both Television and Telecommunications via satellite , cable and fibre optic lines , are well advanced and require the continued integration of technologies to carry on the task of promoting Edinburgh as a centre of excellence in the new media . |
| 6 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 7 | Codetermination — the right of workers to help direct the firms they work in was a major preoccupation of German trade unions in the years after the war ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 9 | In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force . |
| 10 | It costs thousands of pounds to draw up the documentation . |
| 11 | With no cushion of bodies to soak up the sound , Garvey 's voice ricocheted off the house and chapel walls , and added an eerie aftermath to every sentence . |
| 12 | Cadfael removed a simmering pot from the grid on the side of his brazier , set it aside on the earth floor to cool , and added a couple of turfs to damp down the glow , before straightening his back with some caution , and sitting down beside his friend . |
| 13 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 14 | Preston quailed at the thought of being caught by Brenda in an act of passion on the sofa without a box of tissues to wipe up the drips . |
| 15 | Witnesses describe how the army initially bombards an area of marshes to drive away the population . |
| 16 | She did n't hurry getting into her clothes , although she felt cold , and so she was last in the line of children to scramble down the stone stairs and into a room with a linoleum-covered floor . |
| 17 | What is needed is a couple of examples to bring out the difference sharply . |
| 18 | Now taxpayers must pay hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left by under-capitalised thrifts . |
| 19 | Garman and Klass provided a table of factors to adjust upwards the values of their estimator which requires knowing the number of transactions per time period . |
| 20 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
| 21 | Septic tanks are more like miniature sewage works and rely on the action of bacteria to break down the sewage into harmless liquid and sludge . |