Example sentences of "of [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 2 | Well , I did n't mind it was quite interesting , for one thing erm we were sort of off the beaten track here and although we 're in the town you might say , we 're out of it , we 're in the country are n't we ? |
| 3 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 4 | Our primary concern here however is with the implications of the existence of for the comparative static results with respect to the change in taxation ( ) The position is parallel with that in Section 6–4 , where the existence of other taxes was seen to affect the response to , and we can draw on that analysis . |
| 5 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |
| 6 | The Division increased profits by 34 per cent from £28.7m to £38.6m , thanks to the inclusion of for the half year from June to December . |
| 7 | But the politician I was to see most of during the 1960s , the politician in the middle of it all , was , of course , Harold Wilson . |
| 8 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 9 | Yeah , or is it the Society for the Blind or is it sort of between the two ? |
| 10 | There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair . |
| 11 | Possibly the reference is to German flutes , those of the now universal variety blown through a hole at the side instead of through the upper end . |
| 12 | Was that my husband I caught a glimpse of through the open casement taking his ease on a sun lounger with a little pile of twigs by his side ? |
| 13 | Such accounts cast doubt on whether an understanding of reality is to be conceived of as the primary goal of science or the actual nature of its achievement . |
| 14 | From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years . |
| 15 | During his eight years with us , has travelled extensively , visiting customers and promoting the name of as the technical leader in the malting industry . |
| 16 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 17 | By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness . |
| 18 | Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time . |
| 19 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 20 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 21 | As already mentioned , spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor . |
| 22 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 23 | is generally thought of as the all-purpose cheese , for cooking and eating . |
| 24 | It struck Dexter as a very sensual act , at odds with what he thought of as the female detective 's self-control and cautious approach to the world . |
| 25 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 26 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 27 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Man thought of as the aggressive animal confirms such Western prejudices . |
| 29 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 30 | In towns and cities across Scotland , people have lately grown increasingly conscious of the homeless : often young , often pitiful , often begging for money in a style once thought of as the very antithesis of the British way . |