Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , in the face of these many and conflicting voices , is the Christian to make of the Holy Spirit ? |
| 2 | Orientation is concerned with enabling the user to learn of the existence of computer-based information retrieval and the services available ( what is available , where the searching can be carried out and how a search is carried out ) . |
| 3 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | The return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction is only the final stage of relapse . |
| 5 | Tell us Mr Chairman , it 's the second to last of the yellow sheets , I mean the block of sheets , the next to last but one in the , in the of , start at the back . |
| 6 | The hunger of Russia during the civil war added a sharp edge to the demand for Ukrainian independence , the right to dispose of the grain surplus . |
| 7 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 8 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 9 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 10 | readers should have the chance to read of the project 's progress . |
| 11 | For the moment , the demand to make of the nuclear powers is not for a test ban but for five-power talks and joint research to explore more defensible ways of going about their testing business . |
| 12 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 13 | The solution rejected in Yip Kai-foon of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be the more probable is , at least , rational and less potentially repugnant to the principle that the prosecution must prove its case . |
| 14 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 15 | The countdown to launch of the Personal Communications Network cellular mobile telephone service in the UK is well under way , and Mercury Communications Ltd 's Mercury One-to-One has released further details of its planned Personal Communications service , which will include cost control features . |
| 16 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | To this end , the ability to act of the Community institutions will be strengthened . " |
| 18 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 19 | The ability to dispose of the most costly resources is an essential attribute of power in all stratified societies , and the display of artefacts made from costly materials was one of the most conspicuous ways of demonstrating this power . |
| 20 | Because the various occupations in any one employment would monitor and compare their respective rates of pay , and given that the ability to pay of the employer was the same for all of them , they tended to negotiate a common bargain . |
| 21 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 22 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 23 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 24 | But this is the time to think of the weaker side . |