Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 2 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |
| 3 | Initially it is likely to get the Sbus versions of Freedom out into the Sparc-compatible market , and says it has already been approached by several of those suppliers . |
| 4 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 5 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 6 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 7 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 8 | ‘ People who buy these pale impressions of literature instead of the real thing are bound to be disappointed sooner or later . ’ |
| 9 | Secondly , it is of course up to the individual credit granter to decide whether or not to enter into a transaction requested by an individual customer . |
| 10 | They will be accountable , these political nominees will be accountable of course not to the local community , but to the politician in London of whatever political persuasion . |
| 11 | If " they " wanted him to do any more , then he insisted on being paid ; no , of course not at the proper rates , but enough to make it worth it . |
| 12 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 13 | Of course not on the same scale , but there helping , supporting . |
| 14 | and erm the reorganizing of erm secondary education which all stemmed of course really from the nineteen forty four Act |
| 15 | There is plenty of resistance both to the American investment banks and to their book-building technique . |
| 16 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 17 | The revenue gained from this reform should be used so that contributions rise by single percentage points over bands of income up to the upper earnings limit . |
| 18 | Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system . |
| 19 | More than a billion for the A90 complex , and he had heard , and he believed it , that there was £35 million of money just for the new fencing and perimeter security equipment … money for that , money no object for the bloody contractors . |
| 20 | The locals , realising an opportunity when they saw one , ploughed increasing amounts of money back into the aspiring town and today the results are there for all to see . |
| 21 | Such a calculation is unlikely to produce a sum of money anywhere near the true cost of disturbance . |
| 22 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 23 | Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned . |
| 24 | Here the convergence of the African and Eurasian Plates has led to the development of successive thrusts and nappes carrying huge masses of rock northwards towards the European foreland ( Fig. 3.19 ) . |
| 25 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 26 | There 's a marvellous moment of stasis just before the final presto of this first movement ( a riveting tenuto E natural in the violins ) , while the finale is particularly notable for the rapture of its luminous string transformation ( dolcissimo ) in the central maestoso ) . |
| 27 | At Christmas and Easter records are printed over the next three working days ready for collection by students on the first day of term along with the two to three hundred letters from the Assistant Dean . |
| 28 | The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out . |
| 29 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 30 | Imagine a space capsule in free fall near the Earth : inside it an astronaut strapped to one wall shines a beam of light horizontally at the opposite wall . |