Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned . |
| 2 | The Habsburgs , though they kept a tight hold on much of Europe , were not the longest serving overlords of Aarau . |
| 3 | One of the most debated areas of anatomy is the early history of the vertebrate nasal and hypophysial regions already mentioned above . |
| 4 | The two processes are , so to speak , symbiotically related ; they are the mutually reinforcing determinants of development . |
| 5 | ‘ Experiments of nature ’ , the naturally occurring fluctuations of life experience , have therefore been resorted to , but though these have raised some intriguing questions they have so far provided few conclusive answers . |
| 6 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 7 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 8 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 9 | this one is wrong In addition to the generally recognized senses of vision , hearing , touch , smell and taste , human beings are known to have an additional one , called proprioception or kinaesthesia. whereby we are aware of the relative position of our limbs , the tensions in our muscles and so on . |
| 10 | They recruited and trained some of West Africa 's best journalists , building on the already established foundations of newspaper readership and reporting . |
| 11 | In this tradition , before this development , the sociology of culture had significantly been concentrated on the already institutionalized areas of religion and education . |
| 12 | Many farmers are rediscovering the largely abandoned practices of crop rotation and manure spreading . |
| 13 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 14 | The flashcard is a simple example of one of the best documented principles of memory ; things that are stored together tend to be recovered together . |
| 15 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 16 | Either a study focuses upon the formally defined incumbents of leadership roles in large organizations , or it must somehow identify the real power holders behind the careful façades built by constitutions or organization charts — which seems to assume that the power of the real elite is known in advance of undertaking the empirical research ( Mills , 1956 , pp. 366 — 7 ) . |
| 17 | He came nearer , and the light of the June evening turned the tanned planes of his hawk-face and the ridge of the bold , importunate nose to copper , and picked out the russet reds in the short , dark beard , scoring deeper the deeply graved lines of audacity and laughter . |
| 18 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 19 | Robert Thomson , the union 's Scottish secretary , said the three north-east parliamentary constituencies — Kincardine and Deeside , Gordon and Banff and Buchan — were among the top five throughout the whole of Britain with the fastest rising levels of unemployment . |
| 20 | Remembering suddenly the sealed bottles of stomach contents , the carefully dissected pieces of liver and intestines , looking when you came to think of it , no more frightening than exhibits in the science laboratory at school , she said quickly : |
| 21 | Alexei found himself recalling events from his childhood — the dimly understood shifts of influence from one family to another , his mother the niece of the Emperor , his father a commoner and always absent on the Imperial service — and almost before he was aware of it his hand had risen to the gold caste mark on his cheek . |
| 22 | The perfectly kept living-rooms of Tollemarche homes were for visitors ; the basements , despite their fire hazards , were good enough for the children ; there they often slept and there , if the temperature went much below zero , they also played . |
| 23 | THE DINOSAURS were the product of the now known laws of evolution . |
| 24 | The most prominent orienting devices remain the symbolically defined frames of reference of social roles , which are integrated by the constant process of the individual 's or the group 's construction of his own identity in the context of the world as he or they know it . |
| 25 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 26 | The answer , I think , goes beyond the well known shortcomings of prison conditions . |
| 27 | The way in which the slogan ‘ Bird Lives ’ spontaneously appeared on New York subway walls following the death of the legendary Charlie Parker is one of the well known stories of jazz . |
| 28 | The imagery of ‘ tips of icebergs ’ and ‘ tentacles ’ is common among conspiracy theorists , who assert that Zionism , or Jewish power , lies hidden behind the seemingly opposed forces of communism and capitalism . |
| 29 | Trifling though they may appear , these are the conventionally cited points of contention between the Celtic and Roman churches . |
| 30 | Of course , the state is not insulated from economic pressures or political demands from the working class and other groups , but this analysis suggests that it will respond to them in ways which are to its own advantage , which may not coincide with the narrowly defined interests of capital or other political forces . |