Example sentences of "[adj] of [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , small pets like fish , birds or mice might be carefully wrapped in plastic and disposed of with the normal waste collection but after spending a lifetime with a faithful companion an owner might be reluctant to part with a pet in this way . |
| 3 | Regular record checks will enable courts to identify cases not set down or disposed of within the prescribed period . |
| 4 | It is used with absorbent disposable potty pouches , which can be removed when the job is done , and disposed of in the same way as a disposable nappy . |
| 5 | The results of companies acquired or disposed of in the year are dealt with from or up to the effective date of acquisition or disposal respectively . |
| 6 | energy council , I 'm not make a bid , we 've just , er we 've just heard , what I think is a , is an example of enlightened and model practice , so praise is on the superfluous , but I think we 're probably not typical of of the business sector in being so enlightened , and my question is only a wide one , and it is this . |
| 7 | Then you run into the appalling problem that the Americans were conscious of from the word go , and that is Ramadan in the middle of March , and whether the Muslims will fight . |
| 8 | By using Green 's theorem the integral of over the rectangle PNML indicated in Figure 14.1 can be related to its line integral around the boundary . |
| 9 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 10 | After much furore , his results were published in Nature , along with , in a development unheard of at the time , a criticism of his data by one of the paper 's referees , the chemist Walter Stewart . |
| 11 | County butterfly recorder Steve Piotrowski said : ‘ Up to this year it has been virtually unheard of for the species to over-winter in Suffolk . ’ |
| 12 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 13 | Welfare benefits currently form a higher proportion of many individuals ' income that was formerly the case , because of the rise in unemployment to levels unheard of since the 1930s , and because of the increase in the number of old people who are dependent upon state pensions . |
| 14 | A Chief Whip is in a special position to be able to understand the many strains in the lives of colleagues that are unheard of beyond the bounds of Westminster , and often unheard of except within very small circles in this place . |
| 15 | I also recall that at least on one or two occasions , he 'd dyed his hair which was almost unheard of in the early 60's . |
| 16 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 17 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 18 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 19 | In other words , it would appear that the wings and fringe were sent to regiments to be fitted by regimental tailors , thus giving scope for some unofficial embellishments — hardly unheard of in the British Army , in all periods . |
| 20 | Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself . |
| 21 | Job losses , which until recently were unheard of in the NHS , usually affect older people first , resulting in the loss of those with the most skill and experience . |
| 22 | When a medical career has to be ended early because of staffing reductions ( virtually unheard of in the NHS before the reforms but now planned in the wake of the Tomlinson inquiry ) age usually predominates over other factors such as experience and skill . |
| 23 | For the next week we were to play a game ( unheard of in the UK ) called Hunt the Politician . |
| 24 | Such direct interference in the ancestral cults of a nation was unheard of in the Greek-speaking world from immemorial times . |
| 25 | Technology has brought speed of travel , and the almost instantaneous dissemination of information from one part of the world to another , such as has been unheard of in the history of the world . |
| 26 | Unheard of in the civil service . |
| 27 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 28 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 29 | The result of this direct participation of the citizens was something very remarkable , something almost undreamt of in the modern world : There was scarcely any separate or professional state apparatus in the city , Athenian democracy signified , precisely , the refusal of any division between " state " and " society " . |
| 30 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |