Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cabinets were therefore often divided by personal rivalries — the schisms in those led by Sir Robert Walpole ( First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1721–42 ) are a good example — and this lack of unity tended to increase the influence the king could exert over individual ministers and the Cabinet as a whole . |
| 2 | The lashing rain had just started and as she spoke a great roll of thunder seemed to shake the house . |
| 3 | In the West , the notion of freedom seeks to increase the potential for action in the outer world while keeping the inner state as constant , and rational , as possible . |
| 4 | Stockport was far from London and perhaps the burden of responsibility seemed to outweigh the £2 13 4d . |
| 5 | The Governor of Kenya and the Minister of Defence came to inspect the camp . |
| 6 | ‘ Never , perhaps , before was such a suit of mourning seen to distinguish the mourner-in-chief ; no long black cloak , no scarf , no hatband , no gloves … |
| 7 | Of course consent to obey the law is not a necessary condition of such an attitude . |
| 8 | Stop , we will of course continue to put the varieties into unofficial trials , bracket and will pay the fees in full close brackets , in good faith on the understanding that when the varieties are to go into U K official trials , the position of your company will have been resolved and you will then be in a position to offer us the excrusive , exclusive rights at that time . |
| 9 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't of course need to duplicate the police enquiries about Mrs … |
| 11 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 12 | It takes the form of a legally binding contract and the normal rules of contract apply to establish the existence , meaning and effect of the agreement . |
| 13 | The requirement of dishonesty seems to confirm the need for subjective recklessness . |
| 14 | The transnational corporations strive to control global capital and material resources , the transnational capitalist classes strive to control global power , and the transnational agents and institutions of the culture-ideology of consumerism strive to control the realm of ideas . |
| 15 | They concluded that two kinds of response serving to control the meaning of the event by neutralising its economic threat were helpful . |
| 16 | The notion of implicature promises to bridge the gap , by giving some account of how at least large portions of the italicized material in ( 3 ) are effectively conveyed . |
| 17 | The sum of money needed to restore the balance to the original amount is known as the imprest . |
| 18 | People offered to raise whatever sum of money needed to keep the Community Radio Station on the air ; even those who never cared or listened much , now felt that 1OAB must be preserved ! |
| 19 | The president has kept the SSC in the budget , but is not providing the amount of money required to allow the programme to follow its original schedule . |
| 20 | This way of rising helps to maintain the length of spine which has been achieved while lying . |
| 21 | Where projects extend between years it is important to have a view of expected completion dates and the level of bidding needed to replace the activity lost . |
| 22 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 23 | Neurophysiological accounts of consciousness fail to address the problem of the unities of human consciousness . |
| 24 | Only a small amount of the green was needed to change the yellow in contrast with the large amount of yellow needed to affect the green ( LEFT ) |
| 25 | The alkali content of each sample was determined from the volume of titrant required to reach the reaction endpoint . |
| 26 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 27 | Earlier attempts to defuse the Polish problem , including a more generous form of Emancipation designed to detach the peasantry from the nationalist nobility , gave way to reliance on force majeure and an aggressive policy of Russification . |
| 28 | It was n't long before the pain of loss began to penetrate the anaesthetic of crowds , of other people 's activity . |
| 29 | The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety . |
| 30 | The Trust 's recommendations for a code of practice designed to reconcile the interests of conservation and tourism were widely welcomed . |