Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [adj] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 2 | The concave side of the former should fit the pipe |
| 3 | The combined effect of the two should ensure that cost of forward cover , as reflected by the rates , fluctuates closely around the interest rate differential of the currencies concerned in the Euromarkets . |
| 4 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 5 | In a similar way , talk of the spiritual can help to revitalize religion . |
| 6 | The ethos of the '70s would leave everybody in equally drab council estates ; denied the chance that high quality schools used to offer ; offered ‘ permissiveness ’ in place of standards and values ; and left to quarrel over how to divide an ever- diminishing cake . |
| 7 | The calmness , even dullness , of one partner may be containing and useful to an excitable other , just as the more emotive response of the latter may engage and bring spontaneity into an otherwise stable and ordered life . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , the GISs of the 1990s will look very different from their rather primitive ancestors . |
| 9 | The additions to his power in the course of the 1470s may have constituted a reassessment of his position , with the king 's perception of his role developing as the duke matured . |
| 10 | The additions to his power in the course of the 1470s may have constituted a reassessment of his position , with the king 's perception of his role developing as the duke matured . |
| 11 | In all cases shown , rocks near the base of the Palaeozoic would have passed the dry gas deathline even before the Variscan orogeny . |
| 12 | They are both required for a good comprehensive system of community care and the presence of the former will reduce , but not remove , the need for the latter . |
| 13 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 14 | Once again , the policy of using the law against those who indulge in sexual exploitation of the vulnerable may conflict with the ‘ logic ’ of overall consistency in age-limits , and this conflict must be acknowledged and confronted . |
| 15 | If Eadwine was slain not in 633 but in 634 , the battle of the Winwaed will have occurred not in 655 but in 656 , so that Bede 's 633–55 may need to be emended accordingly to 634–56 . |
| 16 | As all documentation processed through the financial accounts will therefore also be processed and costed to the cost accounts , the monthly reconciliation of the two will bring to light any clerical errors or omissions from the cost accounts . |
| 17 | If ( as he may well have done ) he thought that he was the Messiah , then his choosing of the twelve would seem to have been a symbolic action , through which he should indicate to people who he was . |
| 18 | Here is James Butterworth , for example , writing fifty years ago and reciting an uncannily familiar catalogue of ‘ postwar ’ trends against which the boys ' club leader of the 1930s must labour : |
| 19 | The holism of the mental should make us suspicious , I have argued , of the mental-sentence view . |
| 20 | The economic climate of the 1980's may give new significance to the DRAs . |
| 21 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 22 | Small amounts of 40 K in rocks decay to 40 Ar and the ratio of the two can give a measure of age of rock . |
| 23 | Insufficient knowledge of the latter can waste a lot of money . |
| 24 | If the strategy was accepted , the report estimated that the number of poor could decline to 825 million by 2000 ; Asia 's share of the poor would fall from 72 to 53 per cent , but sub-Saharan Africa 's share would rise from 16 to 32 per cent . |
| 25 | THE communications revolution of the 1990s should revive a ‘ dead ’ language in state schools , the Archbishop of Canterbury has told Cleveland Latin students . |
| 26 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 27 | While the first week looks a bit of a damp squib , the full moon on the 10th and the sun-Pluto conjunction of the 14th could leave their transformational mark on you . |
| 28 | The shock of the new can liberate one person and trap another ’ , says Dr Clarkson . |
| 29 | By levying tolls and taxes on the traders , the owner of the fair could make a handsome profit . |
| 30 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |