Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day , the coal owners locked out those miners who would not work at lower rates of pay — of up to 49 per cent in the badly affected export area of South Wales — and attempted to suspend national agreements . |
| 2 | Almost 35 million Americans tuned in to the first , two-hour pilot , making it the most watched TV movie of the season . |
| 3 | Furthermore , many studies have shown that the naturally occurring relapse rate of duodenal ulcers is considerably reduced after eradication . |
| 4 | A newer , less conventional treatment is Ketsugo , a spray-on lotion containing Isolutrol , the naturally occurring detergent property of shark 's bile . |
| 5 | When the results for beech trees were disclosed , they were almost identical to those of the much criticised FoE survey of 1985 . |
| 6 | His success in eliminating London smog was balanced by the task of implementing the much disliked Rent Act of his predecessor , Duncan Sandys ( later Baron Duncan-Sandys ) . |
| 7 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 8 | The BP flotation in 1987 coincided with a stock market collapse , so that when the shares started trading they stood at 88p — well below the partly paid offer price of 120p — and investors stood to lose heavily . |
| 9 | All benefits and cover cease upon reaching the originally agreed termination date of the loan . |
| 10 | Option B , which aims to maintain the most important London commuter-lines does not have any lines running through the densely populated commuter region of North Kent . |
| 11 | The partially resettled Dwarf hold of Karak Eight Peaks is under constant pressure from surrounding Goblin tribes . |
| 12 | Ah the well known tube company of Shung Wa |
| 13 | Financière Agache , which with the Company controls LVMH , has undertaken that the interests of it and its associates in the Company will not exceed the interests in LVMH attributable to the Company , which represents 24 per cent of the fully diluted share capital of LVMH . |
| 14 | He backed the movement for Welsh higher education and became a governor of the newly formed University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , founded in 1872 . |
| 15 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 16 | Bel Shanaar himself visits the newly founded Dwarf city of Karaz-a-Karak and signs the pledge of eternal friendship between Dwarfs and the Elves . |
| 17 | He stared angrily back and the softly lit drawing room of the hotel , in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland , housed in calm . |
| 18 | It is probable that the " melon " , the bulging dome on the front of a dolphin 's head , looking — pleasing coincidence — like the weirdly bulging radar dome of a Nimrod " advance-warning " surveillance aircraft , has something to do with beaming the sonar signals forwards , but its exact workings are not understood . |
| 19 | Fresh water from the recently flooded east coast of Australia is heading towards Lake Eyre , but this will take months to arrive and it 'll be too late for many of the thirty thousand chicks in the colony . |
| 20 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |