Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devotees of the 81-year-old broadcaster can spend a delightful evening with Johnners at Colchester Arts Centre on Thursday . |
| 2 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 3 | A thumbnail sketch of the average councillor would present him as white , male , middle-aged , middle-class , and with a higher than usual level of education . |
| 4 | At the latest within three years from the start of the second phase , the Commission and the Council of the monetary institution would report … on the functioning of the second phase and in particular on the progress made in real convergence , in order to prepare the decision concerning the passage to the third phase , which will occur within a reasonable time … |
| 5 | Most members of the Arab League would welcome a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon , but not if it means an inter-Arab war . |
| 6 | That they were also impossible as a basis for the next and crucial stage of the Industrial Revolution could have entered into the judgment only of the most prescient . |
| 7 | The fact that the use of the bare infinitive should give rise to an impression of impoliteness or vulgarity is at first sight a bit surprising , but when considered in the light of make and have , examined above , the reason becomes clearer . |
| 8 | According to Joseph Cummins of the University of London , Ontario , the liberation of only a small proportion of the remaining PCBs would spell disaster for marine mammals . |
| 9 | These facts , coupled with population growth , suggest that by the year 2000 most of the remaining forests will have disappeared and been replaced with subsistence farming with a little surplus income derived from cash crops . |
| 10 | As of July this year , approximately 800 of the remaining employees will work at the semiconductor firm , some 2,200 at AdStar and 1,500 will stay with the manufacturing company . |
| 11 | Some of the remaining staff will move to other Leyland Daf companies in Birmingham and Lancashire . |
| 12 | During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England became a semi-literate society in which even some of the agricultural labourers could read . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) . |
| 14 | Equation ( 2 ) assumes that the fragments of the disrupted object may continue to be treated with a single , collective bow shock . |
| 15 | As well as taking a careful look at what lies beyond the marketing blurb , prospective purchasers need to be very sure of their requirements — before they even begin to consider whether any of the available systems can meet their needs . |
| 16 | The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered . |
| 17 | One of the six numbers would mean death . |
| 18 | For example , if one were carrying out a survey of library users over six days and the analysis for the working week produced , let us say , 20 print-out sheets , then to ask also for sub-analyses for each of the six days could result in a further 120 sheets . |
| 19 | This argument comes close to a constitutional paradox — that people who are protesting against the fairness of the political system may find themselves convicted of serious offences because their mode of protest is a realistic one . |
| 20 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 21 | If a certain opening up of the political life could reinvigorate the economy , that would be sufficient justification for adding a new dimension to ‘ socialism with Chinese characteristics ’ . |
| 22 | None of these uses of the political process will secure that the grievance is properly considered and a remedy given where appropriate . |
| 23 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 24 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 25 | When pressed , he almost conceded that something of the original philosophy of the 1992 programme may have been lost . |
| 26 | The three were closely linked and led to two important conclusions : part of the Strategic Reserve would have to be positioned East of Suez ; and there would have to be some stocking of heavy equipment and supplies , and the establishment of essential repair facilities , on the far side of the Arab air/sea barrier . |
| 27 | In 1993 Phase 2 of the Strategic Study will look at successful practices and clients and publish recommendations . |
| 28 | It can be seen that the correct dose of the correct medicine will aid a person 's healing . |
| 29 | There were working-class regulars but the vast majority of the working class would have been excluded , at least in part by the cost and social ambience of the halls but far more by their geographical location . |
| 30 | Moreover , while Phizacklea and Miles believe that changes in the material circumstances of the working class can provide only a partial solution to the problem of racist ideologies , the political project of the transformation of capitalism and working-class conditions advocated by Hatcher and Shall ice ( and other left antiracists in education ) squeezes out of consideration the rather important caveat entered by Phizacklea and Miles about the prospects for change in racist ideologies as a result of changes in the material base . |