Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a lot of play involved but the games all have an underlying aim ; survival , safety and getting some movement going . ’ |
| 2 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 3 | Ideally this type of assessment begins when the patient is admitted to hospital so that there is adequate time for planning if special arrangements have to be made prior to the patient going home . |
| 4 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 5 | The quantity of nuclease used and the incubation times were chosen such that most of the DNA was digested in the absence of NCp7 . |
| 6 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 7 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 8 | Estimates for the level of under-reporting suggest that the actual level of injury was three times this number . |
| 9 | This type of story shows that the pursuit of ‘ little crime ’ can have some satisfaction and legitimacy , which explains in part why most policemen and women pursue it diligently while deprecating it . |
| 10 | This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics . |
| 11 | However , the planting of beech hedging and the erection of rabbitproof fencing has enabled some work to be completed . |
| 12 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 13 | Fortunately Johnny was still there — a stroke of luck considering that the pubs were open . |
| 14 | It implies a certain commitment to the user and his or her needs , and it implies a particular kind of responsibility to ensure that the user has the skills to obtain what is needed : that is , to obtain the right information or material , in the right form , so that the user can benefit from it . |
| 15 | Er well the committee will recall that shortly after it published its report in Spring ninety two , the new German Minister of Defence questioned whether the project was still required at that degree of sophistication . |
| 16 | The principle of satyāgraha existed before the term was coined , and it was because Gandhi was dissatisfied with the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ that he felt the need for a more suitable and more accurate term to designate and describe the principle he was propounding . |
| 17 | Back to back with Howard Brenton 's HID , this simplistic piece of agit-prop suggests that the RSC 's Almeida season will have decidedly limited appeal . |
| 18 | At the same time , my own researches into the origins of agriculture suggest that the women who were responsible for the discovery and early development of cultivation were motivated by drives of a masculine , aggressive kind and were unlikely to tolerate lengthy breast-feeding and the demands of selfless child-care but also , like their modern equivalents , tended to develop strong narcissistic identifications with their male children ( the masculine woman 's substitute penis ) . |
| 19 | Relatively few people incur a capital gains tax bill because of index linking and the offsetting effect of the personal tax allowance . |
| 20 | In a recent book they pointed out that the laws of physics dictate that the sun 's luminosity must have increased by 30 per cent during the past four million years . |
| 21 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 22 | When the arm spines are cleaned in bleach the smaller ones are seen to be thin and only slightly rugose with the area of attachment reinforced while the larger spine has an almost smooth shaft with a multipointed head . |
| 23 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 24 | The procedure seems to work well providing a balance between finality of decision making and the interests of justice in allowing the re-opening of certain decisions . |
| 25 | Very briefly , according to Prague linguists such as Mathesius and Firbas , the nature of interaction suggests that the usual , unmarked order of message segments is that of theme followed by rheme . |
| 26 | Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies . |
| 27 | This does not of course mean that the subjects concerned were psychotic , in a clinical sense . |
| 28 | This would of course mean that the costing documentation processed for each day , week or month ( depending on the size of the company ) would not be split between individual contracts , development or overhead items , but filed in order of processing . |
| 29 | Substituted service on the MIB does of course mean that the case can be tried by the court under the adversary system and the plaintiff avoids the disadvantages of an application under the Motor Insurers ' Bureau ( Compensation of Victims of Untraced Drivers ) Agreement . |
| 30 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |