Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground does n't need to be perfectly smooth like a putting surface for a well-hit putt from off the edge of the green to finish very successfully . |
| 2 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
| 3 | The cameras focused on him as he went to the back of the green to kiss first Midge and then Chris . |
| 4 | As one who was in the vanguard of the battle to halt and then reverse the ratchet of socialism , I appeal to all who really care for their country and their children 's future : do not give history an opportunity to repeat itself . |
| 5 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 6 | Membership of the Campaign will pitch you into the heart of the battle to preserve British beer . |
| 7 | She said the support of other world leaders ‘ would give a great morale boost to those soldiers who are fighting — they have to bear the brunt of the battle to uphold democracy . ’ |
| 8 | If she found herself liking him — and several times during the course of the afternoon 's decorating she had come perilously close — she could never hope to keep up her side of the battle to keep the club . |
| 9 | Although this is by far the most flexible way of tackling the problem , the results depend on the quality of the software and the ability of the user to code English sentences into phonetic strings . |
| 10 | The other side of the argument is that , as I commented earlier , giving the control over to the computer reduces the capability of the user to make changes and producing short documents with complex layouts is not a task for Ventura . |
| 11 | The six 1.44MB high density disks take little feeding into your machine , and the install routine does n't require much effort on behalf of the user to complete . |
| 12 | For example , if the candidate string starts with the letter b , check from the head of the tree to see if the 2nd of the 26 pointers is set . |
| 13 | And then a shadow passed over me and Werewolf came out of the tree to land perfectly balanced right in front of me . |
| 14 | On 15 July 1898 the Secretary of War approved modification of the jacket to display facing colours only on the shoulder straps . |
| 15 | Thirdly , the criteria themselves do nothing to reduce the lengths of any custodial sentences that are imposed , in spite of the exhortation to make them commensurate with the seriousness of the offence . |
| 16 | According to Dr Derek Denton , director of the Florey Institute , the agreement with Genentech should allow clinical trials of the hormone to begin within two years . |
| 17 | She immediately saw the sense in these remarks and abandoned for ever ( or at least for the time being ) the view that the reluctance of the Church to ordain women revealed it as bigoted and unfair . |
| 18 | When Troy woke up , stiff and still tired , he went out of the church to finish work on the grave . |
| 19 | It is the mission of the church to proclaim the Word and if some of our friends can not receive the spoken word , we have a responsibility to find ways and means within a sacred context of doing this . |
| 20 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 21 | Instances where the motive force for the recognition of a cult site comes from the congregation are rare , but are particularly instructive for an understanding of the concern of the Church to control places of supposedly numinous power . |
| 22 | When forced into a debate on the matter by Seamus Mallon of the SDLP and Senator Mary Robinson , the four church representatives , Bishop Cathal Daly , Bishop O'Mahoney , Bishop Cassidy , and Mrs McAleese , retained the right of the church to enter into public debate on the evils of divorce . |
| 23 | This figure reflects an active drive on the part of the church to increase giving from , for example , a 1978 total of £53.7 million . |
| 24 | Not only was the traditional ideal of union between church and state relinquished but also the Council stressed the responsibility of the church to pass moral judgements , even on matters touching the political order , whenever basic personal rights or the salvation of souls make such judgements necessary . |
| 25 | There is great emphasis on the Church in this Gospel and time must be allowed for such a development of the Church to have taken place ( especially Matt. |
| 26 | Before the end of the fifth century there was no specific alignment of the church to face the east with the altar placed at the east end . |
| 27 | Both series share a common conclusion in the belief in the inevitability of the Last Judgement for which the creativity of the Trinity works through the sacraments of the Church to ensure that man can rise with Christ to " that blis that euermore lastes " . |
| 28 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 29 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 30 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |