Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
2 | She was bullied by an older child of the foster family and did not receive the protection from the foster parents which she deserved . |
3 | The opening assault resulted in the destruction of the advance unit but they kept attacking in waves until their purpose was achieved . |
4 | MUCH of the advance publicity that surrounded Hook , Steven Spielberg 's adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan story , concentrated on the ageing directorial wunderkind 's affinity for the subject of a boy who never grows up . |
5 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
6 | With a repayment mortgage , you pay back a monthly sum which is not only a proportion of the outstanding debt but also interest on the remainder . |
7 | A popular feature of previous Festivals have been the ‘ Irish Writers ’ Evenings ’ , where we have brought some of the outstanding writers and poets in this island to read from their work . |
8 | In order to construct an equivalent investment in the ungeared firm , the investor must purchase a proportion x of the outstanding equity and partially finance this with a loan equal to xB of the geared company 's debt . |
9 | Although a number of feminist authors have tended to view some of the 1960s legislation as ‘ liberalising ’ , they have sought to distinguish the identification of such a trend from any notion of ‘ liberation ’ . |
10 | And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past . |
11 | Mention is made of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts but there is no attempt to question their ultimate effectiveness . |
12 | This chapter describes the various roles that the Bank takes on , and puts them in the context of the overall powers that it enjoys , particularly in relation to the supervisory activities carried out and the possibility of the emergence of a European Central Bank . |
13 | Erm I 've indicated this morning that I think the employment component of the new settlement is an absolutely crucial part of the overall concept and unless you get a very good employment area , all the other objectives for the new settlement will not be achieved . |
14 | These two problems can be overcome but at a price in terms of the overall precision and accuracy of the result . |
15 | It involves , for example , some consideration of the overall aims or purpose of a course , though this does not necessarily mean that such aims have to be explicitly formulated or prespecified . |
16 | And around about sixty percent of the overall provision as we calculate it is to accommodate migration led development in North Yorkshire . |
17 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |
18 | Such a farcical situation could never come about in Germany , where a party must win a minimum five per cent of the overall vote before it can take a single seat in the Bundestag . |
19 | In practice of course , faced with a class of pupils , decisions have to be made , so people settle for what is on offer without any real consideration of the overall value or purpose . |
20 | Indeed , the enthusiasm and effectiveness with which statutory authorities have addressed these areas is often a good ‘ litmus test ’ of the overall quality and commitment of local services . |
21 | Research has already shown that GIS can be extended to include data analysis and this project will develop the following analytical capability : the ability to construct health regions ; the ability to compute rates ( eg disease rates ) in differing geographical areas , the ability to provide a wide range of descriptive statistical summaries both of the overall data and specific geographical areas . |
22 | This raises the more general question of the overall policy and practice likely to influence the nature and scope of residential social work in years to come . |
23 | However , it may be misleading to lose sight of the overall pattern since the outcome of one relationship will affect responses to another . |
24 | By contrast , there is remarkably little discussion of the overall pattern and content of undergraduate studies . |
25 | It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants . |
26 | Some males are able to diagnose vaginal thrush in their wives or girl-friends within seconds of the start of sexual intercourse because of the immediate reaction that is set up . |
27 | Because innovation is so often thought of in purely product feature terms , these connections are especially important : they are the almost invisible understanding of the immediate situation that can spell ultimate success or failure in the marketplace … |
28 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
29 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
30 | And she smiled so nicely at Inchbad and Goibniu that everyone smiled back and thought it would be really very interesting to hear about some of the strange lands and the faraway worlds the Humans had visited from the great Feargach Grian , and also that it was always a shame to eat Humans when they were pretty and young and friendly . |