Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generations of subservience had taught the humble Irish not to answer any question that might get them into trouble . |
| 2 | In general , the opposite is the case : the scale of the research and the kind of expertise required to assess the scientific , and therefore the ethical , validity are such that the research is best considered centrally . |
| 3 | From the turbulent seas the Hosts of Chaos emerged to slaughter the defenceless Elves . |
| 4 | A report published by a review body for the Ministry of Agriculture has described the current badger slaughter policy of the Ministry as " unconvincing " . |
| 5 | Er , which of course does show the relative height of the new houses , against |
| 6 | The regime of course wants to keep the old order the A N C and freedom-loving people want a new order and a quick change but how do you mo move to that situation when you also have the right wing and the security forces and elsewhere not wanting change ? |
| 7 | Richard Botwood and his excellent team continued their cost-containment programme ( but still of course working to provide the value-for-money service members look for ) , so that we finished the year with an acceptable surplus of £35,231 to be used for the benefit of CIT members and transport in general . |
| 8 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 9 | According to this report , privity of contract has remained the main obstacle to the modernization of English bill of lading law . |
| 10 | Very much to the benefit of the college , Hargreaves had the personality and the authority of experience needed to implement the legal requirements in the academic workplace without causing rancour or resentment . |
| 11 | Other studies guided by a similar spirit of fidelity have employed the verbatim method and produced more coherence . |
| 12 | We are in the Old Vicarage Farm now , which Johnson describes as a pretentious heap of shit built to impress the local peasants . |
| 13 | Leith was still wondering what brilliant sense of direction had brought the aggressive male to her door when , in the late afternoon , an extremely apologetic Travis called . |
| 14 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 15 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 16 | Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour . |
| 17 | Witold Krassowski : Images of Poland , a long history of oppression has made the Polish people tough , with a strong sense of national identity . |
| 18 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 19 | The Personnel Manager has advised Heads of Department to continue to operate the present voluntary screening programme except : — |
| 20 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 21 | Since the ‘ second wave ’ of the women 's movement exploded onto the scene on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s , few fields of study have escaped the searching gaze of feminism . |
| 22 | Different fields of research have disclosed the many different factors that can affect both physical and mental behaviour . |
| 23 | The honorary legal adviser to the Nationwide Festival of Light had criticised the deprave-and-corrupt test in The Daily Telegraph precisely because it had been so applied , arguing , in a plain man 's version of Lord Denning , that |
| 24 | Looking upwards , she saw that no window had yet been built into the end wall at the top of the stairs , and this lack of light helped to emphasize the Stygian gloom in which she stood . |
| 25 | For the minority in the Labour Cabinet who opposed the cut in the standard rate of benefit had divided the Labour government , not on the question of whether the budget should be balanced , but , so they claimed , on the subordinate question of how the budget should be balanced . |
| 26 | The area has been affected by deep Tertiary weathering and substantial amounts of ilmenite have entered the secondary environment , especially through fluvioglacial erosion . |
| 27 | We are also inviting claimants who currently receive only one of the two existing benefits , and consequently will transfer to only one component of DLA to consider claiming the other component . |
| 28 | This may be a sickly , peevish fairy child , an aged fairy no longer of value , or even a piece of wood carved to resemble the stolen child . |
| 29 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe . |
| 30 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |