Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 2 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 3 | But did any of that come out at the inquest ? |
| 4 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 5 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 6 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 7 | This mill may well stand on the site of that recorded here in the Domesday Survey . |
| 8 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 9 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 10 | Occasional evidence of this percolates through into the newspapers and , now and again , the law reports . |
| 11 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 12 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 13 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 14 | Corroborative evidence of this comes sometimes from the spectral widths of the lines , and sometimes from observation of movement of the patches , revealed in sequences of photographs . |
| 15 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 16 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |
| 17 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 18 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
| 19 | Just pr producing new copies as you need them rather than produce five thousand and I think we we have sort of hundreds to throw away in the end . |
| 20 | Yet a staggering eight out of 10 disagreed strongly with the idea AIDS is n't really a risk for young people . |
| 21 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 22 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 23 | The first of these survives only in the form of a writ sent out by Edward I on 14 November 1279 , informing his judges that henceforward no religious or other person should receive any land in perpetuity , on pain of seizure by the chief lord , or , if he should neglect to do so , then by the king himself . |
| 24 | Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested . |
| 25 | Many of these grew wildly over the past few years , and have now seen business vanish . |
| 26 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 27 | Monosaccharides carry several hydroxyl groups ( OH ) and , when a disaccharide is formed , two of these link together with the loss of the elements of water . |
| 28 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 29 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 30 | Over in Cheltenham , 6 teams of 4 turned out for the day 's main event , won by the team from the St James Hotel . |