Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ease a fork under each onion to break the roots and leave them on top of the soil to ripen in the sun . |
| 2 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 3 | He referred particularly to the need , under judicial review procedure , to obtain leave to apply on the basis of sworn evidence , on the court 's discretionary control of both discovery of documents and cross-examination , on the capacity of the court to act with the utmost speed when necessary and on the court 's avoiding the temptation to substitute its own decision of fact for that of the housing authority . |
| 4 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 5 | A vent pipe must be fitted to the top of the cylinder to terminate over the cold water cistern and the hot water draw-off is taken from this above the level of the top of the cylinder . |
| 6 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |
| 7 | With scarcely a consumer item worthy of the name to buy in the shops , and with a rouble in their pockets that loses value by the week , Soviet citizens are staging a gold rush . |
| 8 | In anticipation of the rush to get round the mast , the front foot is placed by the mast foot . |
| 9 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 10 | Used to cut the threads of the pile and foundation material ; it usually has a hook on the end of the blade to assist in the formation of the knot . |
| 11 | Such paranoia probably derives from an unconscious recognition that in such a collaborative medium , the director as sole auteur is an artificial concept , a labelling convenience , the confection of French theorists : and , who knows , the hand that slips from behind the shadow of the throne to reach for the director 's crown most likely belongs to he who first dreamed the kingdom . |
| 12 | The recommendations in the White Paper of the following year Better Services for the Mentally Ill indicated that it should be the long-term aim of the RHA to axe at the very least one-third of this provision , even if no general hospital units at all were provided . |
| 13 | The readiness of the ILP to cooperate with the Communists did not lessen the tension between the two parties to any important extent . |
| 14 | The class teacher retaining a copy of the certificate to place in the child 's personal file . |
| 15 | When the mayor ordered the lobbyists standing round the side of the chamber to move into the public gallery , Cooper protested that they had every right to be there : ‘ They are not peasants to be roped in . ’ |
| 16 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 17 | Since staff recruitment is perhaps the key task of a bureau 's management committee , it is normal for the chairman and perhaps one other member of the committee to participate in the interviewing process . |
| 18 | Having negotiated the traffic bridge , she turned left again on the other side of the river to wobble along the tow-path . |
| 19 | The government announced in May 1991 that it would submit a bill in the second half of the year to deal with the problems of national and ethnic minorities . |
| 20 | Astonishingly this is the second recording of the work to appear within the space of a year , and it has the advantage over its predecessor ( on C ) of appearing on one disc instead of two , courtesy the omission of all the recitatives — no great loss in this case , I feel . |
| 21 | In accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee of The House of Commons ‘ on Foreign Office reconstruction' ’ , made in their Report , dated 13th July last , ‘ ‘ that a preference should be given to the successful competitors in the erection of the New Foreign Office , it is the intention of the Government to employ as the architect of the proposed building , in the event of the necessary funds being voted by Parliament in the ensuing Session , Mr. George Gilbert Scott , one of the successful competitors ' ’ . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Harold Wilson appeared to give some credence to this view in 1966 when he said in the House of Commons that it was the duty of the government to consult with the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 23 | This has been interpreted as being a consequence of the negative enthalpy of mixing in the system which acts as an additional driving force for the chains on either side of the boundary to cross into the other matrix . |
| 24 | Screw two screw-eyes to the underside of the batten to correspond with the two rows of vertical rings , and a third one close to the end of the batten on the operational side . |
| 25 | And she produced a sheaf of exhibition papers with a flourish ; she 'd even written some of the wording to go under the photos . |
| 26 | to the measurements taken plus 3cm ( 1 ¼in ) for top and bottom turnings ( plus a further 7.5cm ( 3in ) to enable the top of the blind to lie over the heading batten if fitting outside the window reveal ) . |
| 27 | On a different level , though the possibility is not mentioned in the Kanunname , it was certainly still possible in these relatively early days for a member of the ulema to rise to the office of Grand Vezir : for example , Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa , the son of Halil Pasa , who held the office from 903/1498 to 905/1499 , and Piri Mehmed Pasa , Grand Vezir from 924/1518 to 929/1523 . |
| 28 | Yugoslavia was without a federal budget until June 1991 , because Croatia and Slovenia could not agree on what percentage of the budget to allocate to the military , or on what contributions they should each make to the federal budget . |
| 29 | We 've already bought most of the stuff to put in the flat , half at my house and half at his house . |
| 30 | This capacity of the adjective to stand alongside the verb is just what would be expected if there is a specially close link between the verb and the adjective in the case of the adverbal construction . |