Example sentences of "the [noun] of [pos pn] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips traced the curves his finger had explored , and then he delved sensuously deeper , his tongue finding hers and abruptly intensifying the embrace , as if the intimacy of their tongues together had driven any intentions of reserve and restraint from his mind … |
| 2 | Jose-Maria Olazabal starts the defence of his title today in illustrious company , teeing off with Bernhard Langer and Mark Calcavecchia , looking to pick up a £55,000 first prize . |
| 3 | At the moment Ambulance crews take the majority of their passengers there . |
| 4 | of British Rail 's freight business originates in the north-west , is not it strange that British Rail has not talked to the majority of its users already about times and tariffs for the channel tunnel ? |
| 5 | Thoresby was the only one to survive , with the majority of its contents still on display in the staterooms , regularly opened to the public . |
| 6 | I have n't even told the majority of my friends yet . |
| 7 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
| 8 | I hope that you enjoy the remainder of your stay in . |
| 9 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 10 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 11 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 12 | ‘ Most clubs have scuffs around the base of their walls where players have kicked them . |
| 13 | ‘ I know , ’ Kenneth sighed , rolling the base of his glass around on the table top . |
| 14 | Even bouncing the base of your brain about half a millimetre . |
| 15 | Vitor d'Arcos might have altered the direction of her life once , but he would not be allowed to do so again . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ said Bob , following the direction of her gaze only slowly . |
| 17 | He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him . |
| 18 | In the end , the best ambassadors will be its own graduates , but until then the support of its friends both in and outside Africa will be invaluable . |
| 19 | However dominant , he must keep the support of his party both inside and outside Parliament . |
| 20 | At Grange Park , Hampshire , built c .1670 for the lawyer , Sir Robert Henley , Samwell 's house was swallowed up by the neo-classical remodelling by William Wilkins [ q.v. ] , but despite alterations and the threat of demolition , the shell of his house substantially survives , concealed within the later work . |
| 21 | He also took care to make the patterns of his dances as interesting as in Scottish country dance . |
| 22 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 23 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 24 | Thus , as Franco was strengthened by the internal divisions of his followers at home , he was assisted by the disagreements of his opponents abroad . |
| 25 | Erica , in all the chaos of her arrival back in Britain , appeared to be on no one 's files . |
| 26 | It appears , for example , that Bayezid II stipulated in the case of his medreses both in Amasya and in Istanbul that the respective muftis should be the muderrises , but it is not clear in other cases whether the founder of the made such a stipulation or whether the practice of combining the muderrislik with the muftilik grew up later . |
| 27 | I know a man who , on being offered a particular post , was warned by those in authority that they should ‘ be taking a close interest in the progress of your work there in order to be assured that the style of ministry of the church observes an Anglican ethos . ’ |
| 28 | On Fame ’ Leapor follows the description of her dismissal directly with these lines : |
| 29 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's audacious enough for any of them , ’ Philpott said , biting the stem of his pipe thoughtfully . |