Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor had Innocent any intention of allowing himself the humiliation of Lateran I where the council defeated the pope . |
| 2 | I promise you I have every intention of releasing you the moment the eighteen months are up . ’ |
| 3 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 4 | THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch . |
| 5 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 6 | After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be . |
| 7 | In the legislature , the people are a check upon the nobility , and the nobility a check upon the people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved : while the King is a check upon both , which preserves the executive power from any encroachments . |
| 8 | Annabelle 's father , George , and her mother , Martha , have done me the honour of offering me the opportunity to make a speech on this wonderful occasion and propose a toast to Annabelle and Steven . |
| 9 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 10 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 11 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 12 | on that to sort of show you the power of the system we were just using to erm The obvious thing to do is to label every area of the diagram , and do n't forget they do sometimes say , Seven were not interested in |
| 13 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 14 | Give you millions of examples , but they 're just examples , they 're not sort of showing you the shape of it . |
| 15 | At the same time , I have noticed that women academics can be ruthless bullies of girl students , with the possibly laudable motive of giving them the equivalent of a good shake . |
| 16 | Strategic planning is the business of deciding what the main goals of the organization are and what policies should be adopted in pursuing them . |
| 17 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 18 | In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite . |
| 19 | What kind of citizens charter is introduced on the back of denying you the right to even challenge the people who are providing the services , or could restrict the right of your family to be together , or the right for you to travel to the country where you 've been living ? |
| 20 | Family doctors are trained in the art of discovering what the patient has really come to see them about . |
| 21 | The answer is to develop the habit of asking yourself the question ‘ What went well ? ’ |
| 22 | The annual conference competition to win the George Wood Cup this year took the format of target shooting ( with tennis balls ) and the Welsh dexterity of earned him the honour of collecting the cup at the conference Installation Ceremony . |
| 23 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 24 | No costs are allowed after receipt of such notice of proving anything the admission renders it unnecessary to prove ( Ord 9 , r 16 ) . |
| 25 | She had a good view of the hospital entrance , so she started her private game of guessing what the people were . |
| 26 | Yet , this is not an argument against quantification per se , only against its premature use in advance of knowing what the mathematical properties of the phenomena of social life might be . |
| 27 | And finally Mr chairman on this point , we did in fact do some checking to see the sense of using what the county planning committee had recommended to the H er Highways and Transport Committee that they should regard the six five eight , A five nine one as the correct link to the A one . |
| 28 | Individuals have a right to some independence , and areas of choice in their style of living whatever the degree of their eventual infirmity . |
| 29 | The thought of facing her the next day was quite terrifying , but not an obligation Meryl intended to shirk . |
| 30 | The ethics of bargaining are debatable ; there is scope for unjustifiable coercion ; and equal treatment as between applicants can be abandoned in favour of charging what the market will bear at any particular time . |