Example sentences of "[det] [adv] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 2 | It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized . |
| 3 | It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success . |
| 4 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 5 | Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ? |
| 6 | Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ? |
| 7 | Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ? |
| 8 | Is this how the head of the security police was passing his time ? |
| 9 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 10 | Is n't that exactly the kind of question lovers ask each other all the time ? |
| 11 | Er my Noble my Right Honourable Friend did take account of that and he did agree that hereafter the appointment of the Chairman should not be an appointment made by the Home Secretary , but that shou he should be one made by the full authority and that has I 'm glad to say met with with approval . |
| 12 | Is that just the name of the vaccine ? |
| 13 | ‘ Is that not the job of our local police ? ’ |
| 14 | I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . " |
| 15 | In temperate areas the epidemiology is somewhat similar to that of D. viviparus in that both the survival of overwintered larvae on pasture and the role of the ewe as a carrier are significant factors in the persistence of infection on pasture from year to year in endemic areas . |
| 16 | It knows too the impurity of transgressive desire , and most of all perhaps the impurity of dominant forms of identity , be they white , heterosexual , whatever . |
| 17 | You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts . |
| 18 | opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay . |
| 19 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 20 | All down the front of your coat |
| 21 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 22 | All down the front of her ! |
| 23 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 24 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 25 | During the hours she slept Allen had extracted little by little from Tom All Alone the story of what had taken place there during the night . |
| 26 | Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes ! |
| 27 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 28 | After all today the Earl of Coventry would never get planning permission . |
| 29 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 30 | The samples are those juveniles under the age of fourteen years , those charged with burglary and those where the decision of the police to prosecute is overturned by the Crown Prosecutor as not requiring prosecution . |