Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the War General Student who had commanded German airborne forces congratulated Lord Mountbatten on the raid as the ‘ best example of the use of airborne forces with other forces ’ , and Lord Mountbatten considers this raid ‘ the most 100% perfection of any raid I know ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ 1(1) The rules and practices of the organisation must be such as to secure that its members are fit and proper persons to carry on investment business of the kind with which the organisation is concerned . … |
| 3 | ‘ 1(1) The rules and practices of the organisation must be such as to secure that its members are fit and proper persons to carry on investment business of the kind with which the organisation is concerned . … |
| 4 | The Consultation Draft which preceded the issue of the COB Rules explained that in order to carry on investment business of the same description ( and so qualify as a market counterparty ) , the putative market counterparty must carry on an activity in relation to a description of investment which both fall in the same paragraphs of Sched 1 to the FSA as the activity and investments of the firm . |
| 5 | It is also the case that the president 's unfalteringly outsider style of leadership tended to make worse an already difficult predicament . |
| 6 | Some libraries have become involved in programmes of study skills for their students , particularly in some polytechnics ( eg the Polytechnic of the South Bank , Plymouth Polytechnic , and the City of London Polytechnic ) and in some technological universities ( eg Loughborough University of Technology and the University of Aston ) . |
| 7 | Stands that set out to rival museums are pretty much a thing of the past , with only Jan Krugier of Geneva holding out here . |
| 8 | With hindsight , and also with my regular weekly exposure to the full taxonomy of psychic pathology , I diagnose a somewhat depressive turn of mind . |
| 9 | Stick along base edge of blue card . |
| 10 | The report concludes that only kerbside collection of recyclable waste could hope to achieve the target , announced by then Environment Minister Chris Patten in 1990 . |
| 11 | If all the voices sing in unison , the sopranos have to sing rather low and the basses too high , so unison singing of the whole choir is seldom used . |
| 12 | Just 30 miles or so south west of Bristol , Sedgemoor stretches from the Mendip Hills in the north to the Quantock Hills in the south . |
| 13 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 14 | Features of the change include the £4.524m of extraordinary debits ; £3.855m estimated decreases in value of properties held on long leases and equipment and liabilities relating to commitments on property held on short leases ; and £1.206m other provisions less tax relief of £537,000 . |
| 15 | Roberto Pocaterra was replaced as Finance Minister by Pedro Rosas Bravo , hitherto deputy head of the Ministry of Planning and a leading architect of the government 's economic strategy . |
| 16 | Fernandes was replaced by Col. António Paulo Kassoma , hitherto Deputy Minister of Defence for Armaments and Military Strategy . |
| 17 | Pendukini Ithana , hitherto Deputy Minister of Wildlife , Conservation and Tourism , was appointed Minister of Youth and Sports , bringing a second woman into the Cabinet . |
| 18 | Le Van Triet , 61 , hitherto Deputy Minister of Trade and a former deputy party chief of Ho Chi Minh City , was elected Minister of Commerce in place of Hoang Minh Thang . |
| 19 | Li Jing , hitherto deputy commander of the navy , was appointed as his deputy . |
| 20 | Cao Shuangming , hitherto deputy commander of the Shenyang MR . |
| 21 | This thought can be entertained only if it is accepted that the universe is eternal and timeless , and the theory of a once only chance association of circumstances causing life , be abandoned . |
| 22 | Racing 's only Sunday meeting of the year is to be staged at Lingfield Park on 1 August . |
| 23 | ITV chiefs are cashing in on a sick US craze by inviting viewers to send in video film of real-life horrors . |
| 24 | The first was to cut public expenditure as part of a monetarist approach to inflation control , and the second was to reduce the apparently deadweight burden of ( income ) tax upon incentives . |
| 25 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 26 | Vichet Karunyavanij , hitherto Navy Chief of Staff . |
| 27 | Now , his team-mates — all £14m worth of them — reckon the kid who was brought up a stone 's throw from Ibrox is even better . |
| 28 | It has staged a remarkable recovery from the apparently moribund state of the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 29 | The problem with this ‘ high ’ structuralism is that it tends to offer only an extremely objectivist account of social action , in which the human actor is merely a vehicle for the autonomous working of certain ordering principles . |
| 30 | Clerical workers averaged forty-five hours per week , while retail workers averaged fifty-five reflecting the extremely long working week of many shop assistants . |