Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one he selected , instantly burst into life and the propeller whizzed round to the utter amazement of all those working in the vicinity . |
| 2 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 3 | Very lonely people turn to the tranquillising help of alcohol particularly , according to psychiatrists , men who live alone . |
| 4 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 5 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 6 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 7 | During his time in Israel Baker received no formal response from Shamir to the Syrian acceptance of the US plan . |
| 8 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 9 | In other words , most translators prefer to give priority to the syntactic principles of the target language rather than to the communicative structure of the source text . |
| 10 | Let us apply this account to the syntactic structures of a natural language undergoing the process of evolution which it is only reasonable to suppose has taken place . |
| 11 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 12 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 13 | If this is so , then we shall almost certainly get a cookbook , and the standard-setters will be doomed forever to the thankless task of blocking , after the event , all the ingenious but undesirable accounting schemes that the wit of man can devise . |
| 14 | Due to the geographical size of Eastern region all but Steven are ‘ on detachment ’ , working from their homes . |
| 15 | Cases were tried at other localities according to the geographical distribution of serious crime . |
| 16 | Reflecting local interests and expertise , the project will focus on the analysis of point maps , and will emphasise applications to the geographical distribution of disease . |
| 17 | It could be argued that the west lost the golden opportunity to contribute to the peaceful solution of the Balkan crisis because it did not de-recognise Yugoslavia ( and , with it , outlaw the Yugoslav army ) , while recognising all the six former Yugoslav republics before the war started in earnest . |
| 18 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 19 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 20 | The English pair , who have played a major part in England 's promotion to the Super Division of the European League , were beaten 21–18 , 22–20 by German pair Peter Franz and Torben Wosik . |
| 21 | He is probably right , too , in thinking that she would be far better known in art historical terms had she stayed in France , where her daring move into abstraction was more appreciated , than returning dutifully to the provincial inertia of Dublin . |
| 22 | This included an increased degree of autonomy for Quebec ( and any of the other provinces which sought it ) through the proposed transfer of numerous powers and areas of responsibility from the federal to the provincial sphere of government . |
| 23 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 24 | The JC pronunciation is [ la : ] — in other words , it belongs to the lexical set of THOUGHT , not NORTH . |
| 25 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 26 | David Coleman , the BBC commentator and Question of Sport host , added to the sporting flavour of the honours by winning an OBE. |
| 27 | Jones was a religious man who published a treatise on natural theology and was hostile to the evolutionary work of Charles Darwin [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 29 | Sir Charles Sherrington ( 1906 ) paid close attention to the evolutionary importance of the development of the ‘ head ’ . |
| 30 | One of the factors contributing to the disciplinary problems of young people is their inability to cope with conflicts involving authority figures — those interpersonal occasions in which the youth and an authority figure ( such as a parent or teacher ) have opposing desires . |