Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 2 | A bridal cap of gold would be placed on her head , its intricately woven strands of gold dripping down her back as though the weaver had spilled the threads of his loom . |
| 3 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 4 | Hoomey had not foreseen the consequences of the new decision . |
| 5 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 6 | Negotiations on free trade were also initiated with Yugoslavia , even though the 1983 EFTA-Yugoslavia joint declaration had not specifically foreseen the possibility of a free trade area . |
| 7 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
| 8 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 9 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 10 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 11 | Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 . |
| 12 | It would have required an enormously creative imagination to have foreseen the kinds of jobs that the children and grandchildren of those farmworkers would now be engaged in . |
| 13 | None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number . |
| 14 | As the labour market tightened , faster product wage growth limited the expansion of the backward sector , and thereby ensured an elastic labour supply for the dynamic modern sectors . |
| 15 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 16 | In household pets whose exercise is limited the presence of the tracheal nodules is well tolerated , and animals can survive for long periods with little distress . |
| 17 | The return to the gold standard , which implied maintaining the £/; $ parity , severely limited the range of options for dealing with unemployment because significant monetary expansion would have undermined the balance of payments and would therefore be inconsistent with the fixed parity . |
| 18 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 19 | Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities . |
| 20 | The symbiotic relationship between State and nobility limited the scope of state power and conditioned government policy . |
| 21 | The fact that Stock Exchange rules limited the scope of member firms to increase their capital meant that resources for technological innovation were limited . |
| 22 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 23 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 24 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 25 | It has increased the powers of the Secretary of State for Education and Science , strengthened the role of central government , limited the functions of local education authorities and given considerable powers and responsibilities to governing bodies and headteachers . |
| 26 | The growth in the number and complexity of bills further limited the influence of the individual MP . |
| 27 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 28 | Another proposal , which would have limited the powers of the Commission 's special envoys ( rapporteurs ) to visit countries suspected of human rights abuses , was deferred to the 47th session . |
| 29 | The first public meeting in Cambridge was warned by the Dean-designate of St Paul 's , the Reverend Professor Inge , that unless controls limited the reproduction of the ‘ urban proletariat ’ , it ‘ may cripple our civilisation as it destroyed that of ancient Rome ’ . |
| 30 | Finally , the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty and Protocol of 1974 has limited the development of new ABMs , and the SALT Interim Agreement ( SALT I 1972 ) set limits to the growth of the strategic arsenals . |