Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
| 2 | If a lot of moisture collects inside the bag , wipe it off , looking carefully for adult insects as you do so . |
| 3 | In addition to their apparent central role in the pathogenesis of the arterial thrombus , increasing interest has focussed on platelets and the coronary microcirculation with the finding of platelet aggregates in the coronary microcirculation in some cases of sudden cardiac death ( Haerem , 1972 ; El-Maraghi & Genton , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | In fact , the process of assessment requires of the practitioner the ability to apply a range of knowledge and theory , to formulate information in the light of knowledge and theory , to summarize , prioritize , analyse , make predictions , and to exercise the professional judgements necessary to balance competing imperatives and to assess risk . |
| 5 | But at least some of the meaning of blackbird belongs to the whole complex , and is not attributable to either black — or bird separately ; so , when black is replaced , this additional meaning is lost , along with ‘ black ’ . |
| 6 | It was never suggested in Meikle that any one of the prosecutions was brought as a consequences of mala fides by the prosecutor . |
| 7 | It is great to see so many people turn up and we hope this level of support continues during the cold winter evenings ahead . |
| 8 | This lack of change contrasts with the situation of employed workers . |
| 9 | If you look through all the short stories you know , I think you 'll find that the element of change lies at the bottom of each , like an insistent ground bass . |
| 10 | The prevalence of smoking varies within the population in terms of factors such as age , gender , social class and ethnicity . |
| 11 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 12 | Now , however medieval my proclivities , my bills are bang up to date , so I waved a sheaf of payment slips at the ghosts of the carvers and they vanished . |
| 13 | A path through a mile of woodland leads to the waterfall . |
| 14 | Since car ownership diminishes with age and since many older women can not drive , a clear form of discrimination emerges in the sense that such people suffer restricted opportunities to travel and are less able to enjoy the benefit of greater choice and lower prices . |
| 15 | Discrimination against women is still , of course , to be found in law , and it is codified in other institutional practices determining sex-differentiated rights and opportunities ; but a more fundamental source of discrimination lies in the realm of social attitudes and beliefs . |
| 16 | The power of Chaos lies in the far north of the Warhammer World far beyond the borders of the Empire . |
| 17 | The residual degree of freedom amounts to the choice of orientation of the x and y axes on the plane . |
| 18 | The right use of freedom leads to the Christian discipline that we call ‘ holiness ’ . |
| 19 | According to Brazilian law the responsibility for controlling the sale and the use of mercury lies with the national institute for the environment , IBAMA and in theory these controls are very strict , all importers and dealers are supposed to be registered , and the use of mercury in any process and in whatever quantity , how ever small , requires an official permit . |
| 20 | The pleasure of noise lies in the fact that the obliteration of meaning and identity is ecstasy ( literally , being out-of-oneself ) . |
| 21 | For mentally impaired elderly people the relevant legislation for Guardianship and the Court of Protection occurs in the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order ( 1986 ) . |
| 22 | to which one might add this additional gloss , erm recently there have been under a statutory instrument which regulates er , the ca computation of court of protection costs in the event of the structure in a way differently from the traditional one and the defendants would wish to argue |
| 23 | But a sense of apathy arises from the feeling that life is pointless and futile . |
| 24 | Jean Piaget , in arguing that cognitive mechanisms constitute the actual organs of regulation during exchanges with the environment , emphasizes that the development of complexity arises through the assimilation of new functions on to older structures . |
| 25 | Moreover a further level of complexity arises from the fact that both ATF1 ( 29 , 30 ) and CREM ( 28 , 31 ) exist in multiple forms . |
| 26 | The order of feeding depends on the stoutness of bill . |
| 27 | Respect for the dignity and freedom of the child consists in the recognition that the burden of responsibility shifts from the adult to the child as she herself demands it . |
| 28 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 29 | The process of description triggers off the narrative sequences . |
| 30 | The extent of inequality depends on the variation in N and , magnified by the serial correlation induced by al in the former case , but moderated by the term . |