Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little beads of moisture dotted the upper lip . |
| 2 | The Labour Unity Campaign Committee statement issued for " Unity Sunday " on 18 July 1937 called on " all supporters of unity to put the utmost energy into the work of rousing the Labour Party membership to the need for immediate struggle for the demands listed in the programme and to lead the revival campaign by their example of practical work " . |
| 3 | They found that even small amounts of capsaicin increased the perceived strength of the solutions . |
| 4 | A more realistic approach might be to attempt to reduce the pace of change to meet the economic and environmental needs of the present time . |
| 5 | The wave of change buckled the hated wall and rolled all the way across the continent to the Kremlin 's front door . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban . |
| 7 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 8 | These famous short stories by the master of horror explore the dark world of the imagination , where the dead live and speak , where fear lies in every shadow of the mind … |
| 9 | But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand . |
| 10 | To take a cuisinary analogy , threads of modifier bind the irregular network regions together something like eggs bind the flour in a cake mix . |
| 11 | Her life had been spent running from possessive love , and now here she was , feeling it burn and twist inside her , pushing aside her conscious love of freedom to reveal the passionate woman beneath , dark and possessive , capable of fathomless emotion . |
| 12 | These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make . |
| 13 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 14 | Differences in time and type of fixation affect the intracellular staining pattern — that is , the strength of the staining and therefore the number of labelled cells . |
| 15 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 16 | In the British Forces there are more than ninety Royal Marine , Regimental and Royal Air Force bands , and the investment in music by the Ministry of Defence exceeds the public subsidy of the arts generally in Great Britain . |
| 17 | Oral contraceptives are one of 10 types of drug to join the Limited List by the end of this year . |
| 18 | Increased working distance and greater depth of field make the new SZ series ideal for use with bonding or probing machines . |
| 19 | The RSPCA has called in the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the living conditions of animals on a farm which was hit by an arson attack . |
| 20 | The use of installation denies the individual sculptural attention on which her pieces used to depend . |
| 21 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 22 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 23 | A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history . |
| 24 | The following season he was Celtic 's star player in a memorable cup final when his heroic saves and faultless display of goalkeeping held the great Rangers side of the early ‘ 60s to a 1–1 draw . |
| 25 | From vitality of faith sprang the great cathedrals of France and England . |
| 26 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 27 | Since Fate was the power that kept order in the universe , as revealed particularly by the stars and planets , the prevalence of Stoicism influenced the growing belief in astrology in Hellenistic times and in the days of the Roman empire . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School of course recognised the various forms of conscious and institutional forms of control which only conceptualising human beings could achieve . |
| 29 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
| 30 | He does of course commit the triple sin of being ‘ foreign ’ , rich and clever : unpardonable . |