Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaikh Abdellatif al-Mahmoud , a professor of Islamic Studies at Bahrein University , was detained on Dec. 14 on his return from a seminar in Kuwait in which he had criticized the systems of government in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council . |
| 2 | Elves are taught the arts of war from an early age and swiftly master the sword , the bow and the spear . |
| 3 | Given the sources of deconstructionism in Nietzsche among others , it is just as likely to have a nihilist-reactionary dimension as a progressive one . |
| 4 | Given the limitations of confiscation in the May the fourth directive , it was to be revealed that the provisions were largely ignored and land was taken . |
| 5 | Other societies , at other times , have simply regarded the elements of nature as commodities : sources of food , fuel , shelter , transport , and wealth . |
| 6 | In parallel , we have correlated the number of γ-interferon secreting cells with the epithelial expression of class II major histocompatibility complex antigens and have examined the effects of treatment with a gluten free diet . |
| 7 | Lal ( 1981 ) has examined the effects of deforestation on runoff and erosion in several small watersheds in the Ibadan region of Nigeria . |
| 8 | Sioli ( 1985 ) has examined the effects of deforestation in relation to the Amazonian environment and points out that the disruption of biogeochemical cycles by burning renders nutrients susceptible to leaching . |
| 9 | Although we have located the beginnings of sociology in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century , its development and acceptance as an academic discipline was not a uniform and uncomplicated process . |
| 10 | In particular , they must have forgotten the acts of violence through which it came into being ; and to be a nation , its inhabitants have to have a will to be a nation . |
| 11 | By reason of this terror the savage trembled before the magician who seemed to have penetrated the mysteries of nature about him . |
| 12 | Steve Coppell 's men have already sewn the seeds of recovery with a hat-trick of wins against Queens Park Rangers , Liverpool and Leeds — but they wo n't cause Fashanu even more sleepless nights . |
| 13 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 14 | Sgt Barnes ( Tom Berenger ) leads those who have accepted the brutalities of war as a way of life , while Sgt Elias ( Willem Dafoe ) leads the more liberal faction which is as tolerant of ethnic minorities as it is of drugs . |
| 15 | Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court . |
| 16 | Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame . |
| 17 | Big companies have long seen the advantages of training by computer but have thought technology immature . |
| 18 | The North East CABx have seen the effects of unemployment in their area on a large scale over the last few years . |
| 19 | ITV , with Pathfinders and Gerry Anderson 's Fireball XL5 had advanced the techniques of Television for younger audiences . |
| 20 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 21 | Can you just just read off you 've got the properties of metal in front you . |
| 22 | In approaching philosophical problems John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) kept the temperature of discussion as low as possible ; there was no point in reviving the interminable religious disputes which had produced the Wars of Religion in the earlier seventeenth century . |
| 23 | Such a shocking change in weather condition came as a rude awakening to people who thought the North-East had escaped the clutches of winter for another year . |
| 24 | Despite the ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ episode during Christmas 1793 , when a drunken Burns may have overstepped the bounds of propriety towards his hostess , and notwithstanding the lampoons with which he requited his subsequent exile from her house , the intimate friendship that Burns formed with this ‘ really first-rate woman ’ survived its year-long breach . |
| 25 | The news had not reached the papers of news by the next day and thirteen days later came out as : |
| 26 | We have already noted the dangers of abstractionism in considering media modes , and stressed the importance , in the real history , of dialectical interpenetration , resulting in tensions , struggles and compromises between characteristics of different modes , between varying practices in the same mode , and between media form and musical content . |
| 27 | Her action has again raised the issues of lack of sponsorship and reduced prize money which have preoccupied many leading players . |
| 28 | Her action has again raised the issues of lack of sponsorship and reduced prize money which have preoccupied many leading players . |
| 29 | However , by these Soviet standards of judgement not only Afghanistan but a number of African and Asian states in the Non-Aligned Movement have breached the principles of non-alignment in the 1980s through various forms of military cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The abbot had gently brushed the petals of blackthorn from the spine , and closed the Gospels . |