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 | It is for skilled management developers to use their expertise in the management of change to mitigate the worst effects . |
| 6 | The wave of change buckled the hated wall and rolled all the way across the continent to the Kremlin 's front door . |
| 7 | Reporting on the decade of change following the 1971 Census , the CES found : first , in those areas under consideration , there has been a population decline of 20 per cent , whereas the population at large has grown . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand . |
| 13 | To take a cuisinary analogy , threads of modifier bind the irregular network regions together something like eggs bind the flour in a cake mix . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After a thrilling final-set victory , the 43-year-old architect said : ‘ I had a bit of luck to win the third set and after Ian took the fourth I thought I would lose . ’ |
| 17 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Oral contraceptives are one of 10 types of drug to join the Limited List by the end of this year . |
| 22 | Increased working distance and greater depth of field make the new SZ series ideal for use with bonding or probing machines . |
| 23 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The use of installation denies the individual sculptural attention on which her pieces used to depend . |
| 26 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 27 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 28 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 29 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 30 | 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 . |