Example sentences of "of the [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 While both these colour books provide hours of pleasant browsing material , I do wish that the habit of printing a picture across two pages would cease , for inevitably part of the subject disappears down the crease !
2 Thus the rest of the catechism sets out the teaching in diagrammatic form of the way in which this pattern of love can be imitated in time .
3 Once detection occurs , however , the effect of the zoning pulls up the overall performance in terms of duration of application and water used , both of which are almost half the 29th edition values .
4 The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do .
5 Notice that , as the electronegativity of the halogens decreases down the group ( see section 2.2 ) , so does the lattice enthalpy .
6 The second characteristic of the corporatist vision of the company takes up the theme of the obliteration of the distinction between state and society and between public and private to supply a normative vision of the role of corporate management .
7 The third major point is that the reporting of the trials marks out the boundaries of ‘ acceptable ’ behaviour not only by gender , but also by class , race and age .
8 Even when one member of the family takes on the lion 's share of caring , there is no reason why brothers and sisters should not make some contribution .
9 However , the chromaticism of the series breaks up the association with classicism to a large degree .
10 Their paths are logarithmic spirals , which means that each orbit of the pole brings about the same proportional enlargement of their distance from the pole .
11 Wind moves faster a little above the ground than it does close to the surface , so a breeze blowing across the top of the chimney sucks out the stale air within the tunnel and draws in fresh air through the lower entrance .
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