Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also transaction costs involved in acquiring and/or disposing of the requisite foreign exchange . |
| 2 | The passage also shows that Freemantle sometimes misunderstood or disapproved of the social content in her friend 's verses . |
| 3 | Nothing more was seen or heard of the two men , and after a few days , the event was forgotten . |
| 4 | The customer must be notified or warned of the following where applicable : ( a ) That collateral will not be registered in his name ; ( b ) That that part of the proceeds of sale of his collateral that exceeds the amount owed by the customer to the firm will be subject , on the firm 's default , to the pooling rules under the client money regulations . |
| 5 | Frequent intoxication damages the mouth , oesophagus , stomach and especially the liver , where overloading of the metabolising process can cause hepatitis and cirrhosis . |
| 6 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 7 | A section of printed ephemera with its own special charm is that consisting of the small mementoes which a number of printing houses struck off to amuse and honour visitors . |
| 8 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 9 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 10 | The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees . |
| 11 | The eight-year High Speed Train power car production line came to an end at BREL Crewe works in August 1982 with the delivery of the 198th and final example , although strengthening of the fixed coach rakes meant the final augmentation trailer did not appear until the spring of 1985 . |
| 12 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 13 | The picture that emerges of the founding treaties is thus one , not of immutable texts , but of texts subject to periodical evolution . |
| 14 | Now that type of exception would mean that the practical difficulties to which he referred would not arise except in the comparatively few cases that arise of the particular type . |
| 15 | Suddenly , the group has hijacked his campaign ; nominated Bernie Grant as his running mate ( sinking Ann Clwyd 's bid for the deputy leadership in in the process ) ; and put out a policy programme that reeks of the old 1970s left . |
| 16 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 17 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 18 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 19 | To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc . |
| 20 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 21 | Although drafting of the formal document is normally the responsibility of your lawyers , in many instances they will require our assistance on commercial matters as well as taxation and accounting . |
| 22 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 23 | The helpful thread of Ariadne ; the artistic weavings of Arachne ; the spinning and snipping of the three Fates . |
| 24 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 25 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 26 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 27 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 28 | The bed was low but wide , and made of the same pale wood . |
| 29 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 30 | decommissioning our facilities and disposing of the radioactive waste cost-effectively , consistent with meeting stringent safety and environmental requirements . |