Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 2 | The welding together of plates in the orogeny would have tended to preserve the equanimity of the land floras and the land vertebrates . |
| 3 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 4 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , by the early 1950s the extremes of difference between working and middle class women 's experiences , which had been the result chiefly of poverty on the one hand , and a cloistered existence in a home where at least the heavy chores were performed by domestic servants on the other , had disappeared . |
| 6 | Not satisfied with her cut from the sale of foreign cars , Elena also asserted her prerogative with regard to the distribution of the standard Romanian car , the Dacia 1300 , making party officials pay up for getting a car ahead of others in the queue ( which , as usual in Romania , seemed to grow ceaselessly ) . |
| 7 | The point at which we come to enjoy aloneness is when we start to relish the advantages instead of dwelling on the disadvantages . |
| 8 | The smelting of arsenical ores to give white arsenic ( As&sub2 ; O&sub3 ; ) in the 19th century contaminated large areas downwind of smelters in the region . |
| 9 | On one occasion in Belfast , at a launch of two ships built for the Bombay Steam & Navigation Co , he used coconuts instead of champagne at the ceremony and made sure that the Indian Swastika — which symbolises good luck — was marked on the side of the vessels . |
| 10 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 11 | After three games of the championship Willowfield are a point ahead of Cliftonville at the top of the table , with Ballymena , Castleton and Knock a point further behind . |
| 12 | Milan , one point ahead of Sampdoria at the top of the table , also have teething problems , trying to rotate half a dozen foreigners when they can only use three ! |
| 13 | It was relatively mild and sunny when Jack teed off just after midday , in company with an Irish golfer who was a couple of places ahead of Jack in the Order of Merit . |
| 14 | The duo from the CIS are Alexander Popov , the 100 metre freestyle champion , and Gennadi Progoda , who won the silver medal when finishing one place ahead of Fibbens in the 50m freestyle . |
| 15 | The abandonment of Lindisfarne by Oswiu in favour of a bishop at York implies an awareness on the part also of Oswiu of the importance of York in the Gregorian scheme for two metropolitan provinces in England . |
| 16 | If you do it through A B S A , the government will give another ten thousand pounds so of course for the orchestra or the institution whether it 's opera , ballet , concert or whatever is , but it must be arts gets the extra money so of course that in a sense is very enabling . |
| 17 | From the results obtained , it is clear that , in addition to visitors ' general interest in the exhibitions and their content ( either because they dealt with topics already of concern to the viewers , or because of their Scottish , or , indeed , local connexions ) , there were a number of features with particularly appealed , including the informative nature of the exhibitions , the layout and presentation of the exhibits , the presentation of original documents , and the presence of photographs and artefacts . |
| 18 | According to Swedenborg every soul is destined for eternal happiness in heaven unless individual freedom in life has been used to pursue the wrong types of love — love of the material world and love of the self instead of love of the neighbour and love of performing what he termed ‘ uses ’ ( useful acts ) . |
| 19 | The PFLP-GC was one of a number of " rejectionist " Palestinian groups strongly opposed to the PLO-endorsed efforts to arrange talks with Israel ahead of elections in the occupied territories . |
| 20 | After two years of legal battles , on 2 May , the first exhibition ever of works from the Barnes Foundation of Merion , Pennsylvania , opens at the National Gallery of Art . |
| 21 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 22 | The refounding of monasteries and the continual granting away of land by the crown resulted in fragmentation of the earlier large units and recombination of land under new ownership . |
| 23 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 24 | There are only three Irish players ahead of Clarke in the ratings prior to this week 's European Masters — Ronan Rafferty at 39th , David Feherty ( 66th ) and O'Connor Jnr ( 109th ) . |
| 25 | He based his tax cuts on American research by Lindsey that concluded that reductions in the top tax rates to the American Government in 1981/82 were costless as the top 170,000 taxpayers ended up paying $26.6bn under new legislation instead of $26bn under the old . |
| 26 | And you just think you know you like you 've put metres instead of centimetres on the |
| 27 | The measure had been strongly opposed by powerful interest groups ( including the chaebol , the large conglomerates which dominate the country 's economy ) and its imminent imposition was held responsible for the recent removal abroad of funds from the Korean stock exchange . |
| 28 | Nowadays these horizons have expanded to take in much of the world outside by virtue of changes in education , in transport and communications , and , as we shall see in the following chapter , by virtue also of changes in the social composition of village community itself . |
| 29 | The process begins with a reform of 487 , the introduction of the lot instead of election for the archonship . |
| 30 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |