Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Whenever possible , notices of change should precede the event ; ( 2 ) identification of the partners who will continue the practice under the original or a new firm name ; ( 3 ) notification of the outgoing partner 's new address and firm name ; ( 4 ) invitation to the client to indicate which of the firms referred to he wishes to instruct .
2 This was supposed to be a celebration of American Independence Day , but no amount of make-believe could disguise the fact that it was a wet weekend in Oxfordshire .
3 The energies of all the infinite number of degrees of freedom would cause the apparent mass and charge of the electron to become infinite .
4 In response to its publication , the Energy Secretary , James D. Watkins , ordered his officials to prepare a detailed action plan to control emissions of tritium ( a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used to enhance the explosive power of nuclear warheads ) .
5 Type of fixation may influence the accessibility of the PCNA protein to antibody detection although results from other studies do not support this conclusion .
6 But the scattering of damage may mean the vision is fragmented .
7 Impressionism was out : henceforth , it was felt , the study of literature must emulate the natural sciences if it was to hope to survive as worthy of any dignity and respect .
8 Whereas young men as a matter of course would study the classics , women would be instructed in painting , music , dancing , modern languages , or other accomplishments , but rarely would they be expected to achieve real competence Indeed , a learned woman was likely to experience difficulty finding a husband , and education might cease to be any advantage .
9 and that , that 's why their er you know , Shaun , erm , Amelda brought erm Moyra down with the babies , you know she was up there and she could help her down , but Shaun is coming down now wi , this weekend in the car and of course they 'll be able to go back in the car , erm there 's , there 's gon na be a party for erm , of course should warn the girl Of course that 's the awful thing about it is n't it ?
10 The important point for the present is that the above clauses leave no room for doubt that a breach of contract will justify the victim in terminating the contract .
11 A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable .
12 This way of teaching can work the other way about .
13 More detailed research and length of text could deter the casual reader but one of the improvements in this volume is the increased use of historical and topographical introductions to towns and villages .
14 Any self-declared woman-centred account or interpretation of experience can assume the status of absolute truth .
15 Any phenomenology of experience must address the way in which experience stands at the moment where internal fantasies cross the threshold of cultural categories .
16 The Museums Commission said it was confident the newly-formed Department of Heritage would support the needs of smaller galleries and ensure that collections of national importance , like that at the Pitt Rivers Museum , are preserved for the public .
17 At the other end of the lane lay the manor of ‘ Bertone ’ : no amount of ingenuity can carry the lane any farther north than this .
18 And the explosion in complaints about new technology , such as direct debits — which transfer money automatically from your account to pay bills — and cash dispensers indicate that the new method of banking could leave the customer less protected than under the old-fashioned paper-based system .
19 But Admiral Turner pointed out that any mention in court of money would enable the dictator to cite in his defence secret payments from the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Agency .
20 But some groups that are short of money may want the job for financial reasons .
21 Even a relatively small additional sum of money can enable the purchase of additional equipment which will make the difference between being poorly and adequately resourced .
22 A rise in either government expenditure or the quantity of money will shift the aggregate demand curve to the right , the exact size of the effect depending upon the slopes of the IS and LM curves .
23 A rise in the nominal quantity of money will have the same effect , although the route here is slightly different .
24 A test of rightness would indicate the opposite conclusion .
25 The MPIs too could benefit from closer contacts with universities : older members who have passed their first flush of creativity would have the opportunity to refresh themselves by teaching , at the same time attracting new young people .
26 Only that sort of provision will bind the parties in advance .
27 In this business , a sense of direction can mean the difference between laughing like a drain or getting caught with your trousers around the ankles of a friend you never had .
28 However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) .
29 Both types of constraint can form the basis for monetary control techniques :
30 Bureaucratic forms of administration would reduce the state 's capacity to direct the economy effectively .
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