Example sentences of "[adv] the strength " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare was let off the residential weekend which is a normal part of the selection process and was taken on the strength of her interview and written application . |
| 2 | As a result , Frank Bates was taken on the strength . |
| 3 | But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old 's powerful and seductive vocals . |
| 4 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 5 | From then on the strength of our negotiating position is likely to deteriorate . |
| 6 | What is discussed much less frequently , however , is the extent of Scottish ‘ egalitarianism ’ and especially the strength of middle- class support for the welfare state . |
| 7 | So the strength of the pound caused through North Sea oil was a major factor . |
| 8 | The Frankfurt Assembly showed less the strength of the German middle class , more its vulnerability to the demands of the unpropertied and therefore its equivocation on the issue of democracy and its dependence on the armed power of Prussia and Austria . |
| 9 | Ultimately , only the strength of the denial system enables the sufferer to function at all . |
| 10 | Aldercine Hodson recently took up the challenge of organising a ‘ Fun Sports Afternoon ’ for the disabled that would cater especially for those handicapped people who have athletic inclinations but not necessarily the strength to cope with competition at County , Regional or National level . |
| 11 | The common law has now , I think , no longer the strength to provide any satisfactory solution to the problem of keeping the executive … under proper control . |
| 12 | Antonov , the Tambov leader , probably never realized anyway the strength of his neighbours in a period of chaotic means of communication . |
| 13 | Not the strength of the body , he wrote , and not the strength of the will , but the strength of the whole self . |
| 14 | Not the strength of the body , he wrote , and not the strength of the will , but the strength of the whole self . |
| 15 | And the young lady , alas , has not the strength . ’ |
| 16 | In the end Frodo does want to destroy the Ring but has not the strength . |
| 17 | My famished brain kept throwing up the same line , and I had not the strength to control it , even though I knew it was wrong : Cymbeline Ghost-relic has returned from the Other Side : |
| 18 | He tried to fight it , but he had not the strength . |
| 19 | He drew back a little and looked into her face , though Lisa had not the strength to meet his gaze . |
| 20 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 21 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 22 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 23 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 24 | At last the bells start to ring in the shrine and the drummers respond , picking up the strength and intensity of the previous nights ' rhythm , pounding again so the earth shakes . |
| 25 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 26 | Rhee was concerned with consolidating his own power base , building up the strength of his regime , securing American economic and military assistance , and with achieving the unification of Korea under his leadership : this would be the crowning attainment of his long struggle . |
| 27 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 28 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 29 | Joshua looked into his eyes , as if weighing up the strength of his anger and calculating the possible effect of even further defiance . |
| 30 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |