Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , in the face of these many and conflicting voices , is the Christian to make of the Holy Spirit ? |
| 2 | Orientation is concerned with enabling the user to learn of the existence of computer-based information retrieval and the services available ( what is available , where the searching can be carried out and how a search is carried out ) . |
| 3 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | The return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction is only the final stage of relapse . |
| 5 | Tell us Mr Chairman , it 's the second to last of the yellow sheets , I mean the block of sheets , the next to last but one in the , in the of , start at the back . |
| 6 | The hunger of Russia during the civil war added a sharp edge to the demand for Ukrainian independence , the right to dispose of the grain surplus . |
| 7 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 8 | Later Marenches said that he had told the Shah to beware of the mullahs and the merchants in the bazaar , but above all to beware of Jimmy Carter , " I told him that this national and international disaster , President Carter , had decided to replace him . " |
| 9 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 10 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 11 | readers should have the chance to read of the project 's progress . |
| 12 | For the moment , the demand to make of the nuclear powers is not for a test ban but for five-power talks and joint research to explore more defensible ways of going about their testing business . |
| 13 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 14 | The solution rejected in Yip Kai-foon of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be the more probable is , at least , rational and less potentially repugnant to the principle that the prosecution must prove its case . |
| 15 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 16 | The countdown to launch of the Personal Communications Network cellular mobile telephone service in the UK is well under way , and Mercury Communications Ltd 's Mercury One-to-One has released further details of its planned Personal Communications service , which will include cost control features . |
| 17 | One couched in the form of an account of the sale of the deceased 's effects says , ‘ Of Mr Marshall for the fine of the yeares to come of the lease of the house ’ |
| 18 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | To this end , the ability to act of the Community institutions will be strengthened . " |
| 20 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 21 | The ability to dispose of the most costly resources is an essential attribute of power in all stratified societies , and the display of artefacts made from costly materials was one of the most conspicuous ways of demonstrating this power . |
| 22 | Because the various occupations in any one employment would monitor and compare their respective rates of pay , and given that the ability to pay of the employer was the same for all of them , they tended to negotiate a common bargain . |
| 23 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 24 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 25 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 26 | But this is the time to think of the weaker side . |
| 27 | He loses no opportunity to boast of the glories of his native land . |
| 28 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 29 | In 1982 , on the basis of some survey evidence , Samuel Beer concluded that " it is no exaggeration to speak of the decline in the civic culture as a " collapse " " . |
| 30 | It is a joy to know of the support of our mentor at every stage , to talk to him , to exchange ideas , to consider the next step , in fact , anything at all . |