Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waltz insists on explaining the behaviour of states solely at the level of the international system . |
| 2 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 3 | At the same time , ICI is actively engaged in the recovery and recycling of products already in the market . |
| 4 | The electrochemical technology business will be expanded by further small acquisitions , or joint ventures , Hunt says , and by the bringing to market of products already in the ICI development chain . |
| 5 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 6 | Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree 's slow progress to maturity . |
| 7 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 8 | Alchian and Demsetz characterise the firm as involving a team use of inputs together with the occupancy of a central position by a party whose function is to monitor the outputs of the team members and the other factors of production employed in the firm . |
| 9 | On Jan. 27 the Chilean Supreme Court agreed to submit questions on the Letelier case to US President Bush ( head of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) at the time of the killings ) , following allegations by Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , the former head and chief of operations respectively of the DINA secret police during the 1973-90 Pinochet regime , that the Letelier attack had been carried out by CIA agents infiltrated into the DINA , in order to discredit the Pinochet regime . |
| 10 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 11 | Remember when the US Interstate Highway system , designed to get people out of cities fast in the event of an emergency , failed its first and only test during the anti-Vietnam riots in Washington in 1968 ? |
| 12 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 13 | And from the middle of this year onwards , both painters had adopted and accentuated Cézanne 's device of lifting the tops of objects up towards the picture plane . |
| 14 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 15 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 16 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 17 | A number of proposals both at the unofficial and the official level were made to overcome the shortage of finance . |
| 18 | Until the implementation of the 1986 Social Security Act the largest group of local office staff was concerned with the administration of the supplementary benefits system , interpreting a complex system of rules largely without the use of new technology . |
| 19 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , yesterday defended the testing of birds even in the smallest laying flocks . |
| 20 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 21 | At first he could hear nothing but the dripping of rainwater from the trees and the singing of birds deeper in the forest . |
| 22 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 23 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 24 | As studies in many parts of the world show , the sexual satisfaction of both partners continues in a high proportion of cases long after the age of seventy and often well into the eighties . |
| 25 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 26 | Tuppe found a pair of knickers down behind the back seat . |
| 27 | And comparable complexity is repeated trillions of times elsewhere in the body as a whole . |
| 28 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 29 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
| 30 | When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire . |