Example sentences of "of [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
2 | Assistant Recorder Mr. John Wardlow stopped the trial on the second day of the hearing and directed the jury to acquit Philip O'Connell of indecently assaulting the 19-year-old woman and causing her actual bodily harm . |
3 | The young man was found not guilty of indecently assaulting the 16-year-old schoolgirl by the jury after a three-hour retirement . |
4 | Alternative vehicles for getting nicotine into the bloodstream skin patches , chewing gum and a recently-developed nasal spray — triple your chances of successfully kicking the smoking habit . |
5 | Are they a means of merely reapportioning the existing cake ? |
6 | Many camcorders are provided with a means of manually overriding the automatic exposure control setting . |
7 | There is no purely linguistic way of generally marking the intended use . |
8 | The Community shall adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992 … |
9 | Last night UN officials were accusing the Serbs of deliberately sabotaging the humanitarian rescue mission as their forces closed in on Srebrenica . |
10 | Addressing the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , he described the compromise programme as " an attempt to preserve the administrative-bureaucratic system " which would " lead the country to catastrophe " , and accused the central authorities of deliberately sabotaging the Russian Federation 's plan to proceed with the Shatalin programme from Nov. 1 . |
11 | Pressure group Friends of Twyford Down has accused the UK Department of Transport of deliberately misleading the public inquiry into the extension of the M3 motorway through the down [ see ED 61 ] . |
12 | This example illustrates the necessity of always putting the substantive motion to the vote . |
13 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
14 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
15 | He cut off sharply , aware that the statement had negated his earlier pretence of hardly knowing the young pilot . |
16 | A match with the newly-crowned WBC champion would silence the critics who accuse him of forever taking the soft option . |
17 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
18 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |
19 | This has the effect of slightly shielding the right ear from noises emanating above eye level , while sources below eye level sound fainter to the left ear . |
20 | ‘ The relatively small numbers of servers in comparison to the desktop , and the challenges of robustly implementing the distinct product capabilities of NT raise serious doubts concerning its viability as a server operating system . ’ |
21 | Note the offence of wilfully obstructing the free passage of a highway with anything , not just a vehicle , contrary to the Highways Act 1980 , section 137 . |
22 | It is a matter of accurately formulating the fundamental rule of the legal order . |
23 | Moreover , to the extent that some phonetic information is available about other segments , the candidate set will be reduced further , probably to the extent of uniquely specifying the correct word . ’ |
24 | This initiated a process of regularly updating the regional policy of the EC together with a programme of regional impact assessment to evaluate the regional effect of other EC policies . |
25 | It is a matter of simply assessing the likely direction and distance the ferret may have travelled within the system to establish a starting point for the search . |
26 | With a rate of fast return the tanning bed is the single most profitable investment a club can make . ’ |
27 | The gestural usage of there favours the first interpretation , the symbolic usage the second . |
28 | NCT is at present celebrating the Centenary of the birth of Grantly Dick-Read the first President of the National Childbirth Trust , whose classic book , ‘ Childbirth Without Fear ’ is £4.95 plus 15p p&p from HQ . |
29 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
30 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |