Example sentences of "[vb base] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it is made clear that Urban Development Corporations , the spearhead of the development thrust , ‘ are the most important attack ever made on urban decay ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | It was the spearhead of the contest between King Henry II and his archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Becket . |
| 3 | HOLD Thames Water , bellwether of the sector , at 416p , and buy Anglian Water at 411p and Wessex Water at 456p , says County NatWest . |
| 4 | While the Silures and their allies had fought a long and successful guerrilla-type campaign , they did not possess the strength or ability to stop a large Roman force from advancing into their territory , nor had they command of the sea . |
| 5 | Columns 1–3 are mutually exclusive , but any of these border of the mandible ( column 4 . ) |
| 6 | Do they have something to offer nursing , or are they just ‘ flavour of the month ’ Peter Mason investigates |
| 7 | Also , it will be very interesting to examine the Davis Cup record of those ‘ flavour of the month ’ players such as Courier , Sampras etc in about 10 years time . |
| 8 | International interest in the sue of the plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel has led to a joint venture with BNFL . |
| 9 | With the usual notation , and taking both the current in the circuit and the charge associated with the capacitance to be initially zero as before , Kirchhoff 's voltage law gives Thus , making use of the Laplace transform of given in equation ( 11.28 ) , the Laplace transform of the current is where again and . |
| 10 | 11.8 Plot in the s-plane of the poles of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f . |
| 11 | The poles , , of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f. , which were deduced in the previous section , exhibit interesting behaviour . |
| 12 | We now introduce the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation such that ( R(s) being an even function ) . |
| 13 | Thus this procedure measures the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function . |
| 14 | I have n't felt that melt of the heart since Cameron , she thought . |
| 15 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 16 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 17 | ‘ Your plays are very clever , Ben , ’ Richard Burbage said , ‘ but they smell of the schoolbook , do n't they , Will ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So you 've just elected yourself Boss of the Beach , huh ? ’ |
| 19 | I heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) say of the poll tax that it was the most misconceived legislation ever . |
| 20 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 21 | Moreover , as the guide-books say of the guanaco , ‘ when annoyed , they spit . ’ |
| 22 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 23 | The Usher of the School |
| 24 | During the Bishopric of John of Bradfield 1278–1283 , we find John Usher of the parish of Snodland being granted land in Halling and Holborough . |
| 25 | " A noble breakfast , " says George Borrow of the morning meal offered him at an inn at Bala in North Wales , " there was tea and coffee , a goodly white loaf and butter , there were a couple of eggs and two mutton chops — there was boiled and pickled salmon — fried trout also potted trout and potted shrimps . " |
| 26 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 27 | What did Kenyon , not a keen follower of the game , make of the decision that music will have to make way for Test Matches on Radio 3 's only waveband ? |
| 28 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 29 | The myth is the idea that to talk of a mental process of remembering is to explain the use we make of the word remember . |
| 30 | The exchange has roused the analyst to contributions that are firmer and more energy-consuming than those he generally vouchsafes : ‘ it 's not the past but what we make of the past that shapes our future and present . ’ |