Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 Advocates of this type of curriculum not only have the problem of deciding who can speak for the culture ( or cultures ? ) and making an appropriate selection from it , but of deciding to what extent the curriculum should attempt to conserve , reform , revolutionize or even reverse cultural patterns and trends .
2 He was not going to forgo the opportunity of adding to his music the force of his words .
3 This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group .
4 There is no way of knowing at what stage the Howards discovered that they were supporting a usurpation , but there are no signs of second thoughts .
5 There is no way of knowing at what stage the Howards discovered that they were supporting a usurpation , but there are no signs of second thoughts .
6 It is the only method we have of associating with our policy the Party as a whole through a body that is representative of the front and back benches and the Party in the country as well as the Party in the House .
7 He makes a point of mentioning in his Guide the provision ( or lack of it ) for the poor and ill .
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