Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion that the typical science enthusiast was Anglican and not politically radical does not of course affect the wider generalization that Protestant cultures were more amenable to freedom of thought . |
| 2 | The combined forces of opposition ruptured the earlier environmentalist consensus , making opponents out of former allies , staking out a new regime of sexual regulation and defining sexuality as a crucial site for feminist intervention . |
| 3 | Thus , while marriage was an experience common to women of all classes , there were substantial differences between middle and working class women in terms of first , their realistic expectations of marriage given the greater surplus of women amongst the middle class ( at least prior to World War I ) , second , their experiences of marriage breakdown , and third , their patterns of childbearing within marriage . |
| 4 | A café curtain is an ideal way of giving privacy if you are overlooked , or for blocking out an unwanted view , as this type of curtain covers the lower half of the window permanently , leaving the top half uncovered . |
| 5 | Water , at least , could be obtained , she told herself sternly , before the frightening sensation of helplessness got the better of her . |
| 6 | In a typical lizard , every tail vertebra from the sixth one onwards has a special ‘ plane of weakness ’ where a thin layer of cartilage replaces the stronger , bony tissue . |
| 7 | When I first played through Rattle 's Daphnis , the levels were set with a degree of concern for the neighbours , I felt that here was an example of his penchant for pianissimos on the threshold of audibility getting the better of him . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't be shy — call me Naylor ! ’ he thundered , and suddenly Leith 's sense of humour got the better of her , and she burst out laughing . |
| 9 | This iconic image of motherhood subverts the earlier sterilised images of the Victorian bourgeois Madonna as exemplified by Mulready 's ‘ The Lesson ’ ( 1859 ) . |
| 10 | Pitt began by converting John Chapman 's reputed Manor House — which he bought when the Court of Chancery ordered the Dampier family to sell it in 1823 — into a hotel , clearing the ground in the direction of Peveril Point . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal overturned the lower court 's ruling , stating that because the actual sale of the works took place outside Germany , German copyright law ( of which droit de suite is a part ) was not applicable . |
| 12 | In Bowen v. Hall , on rather similar facts , the Court of Appeal accepted the broader proposition and doubted whether Lumley v. Gye could in fact be based upon the narrower ground of enticement . |