Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 2 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 3 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 4 | In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith . |
| 5 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 6 | The effect of time-zone changes , free of problems from the flight itself , can be removed by experiments in isolation chambers . |
| 7 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 8 | In new surveys he said , a ‘ multi-stress ’ approach would be needed , while ITE 's deputy director , Fred Last , commented , ‘ I do n't agree with some of Friends of the Earth 's conclusions . |
| 9 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 10 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 11 | Masturbation is critical to our enterprise , for it connects the most repetitive and mindless of actions to the inducement of ecstasy . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 13 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 14 | Within tens of kilometres of the burning oil wells , large droplets of unburned oil fell to the ground , painting the desert black in places . |
| 15 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 16 | The problem position , of course , is fly-half — the berth that has given Ireland the greatest of difficulties over the past few seasons . |
| 17 | Each voucher can buy 10,000 roubles-worth of assets in the privatisations . |
| 18 | By the time of the spread of the railways in the second quarter of the nineteenth century , the industrial map of Britain was in its main outlines already drawn — a sequence unique in the history of industrialisation and the clearest of testimonies to the role of canals . |
| 19 | His demenour ( sic ) — he resembled the poorest of travellers in the last throes of sartorial disintegration — will also continue to present a massive career drawback for him . |
| 20 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 21 | Similarly , the Plowden Report for primary schools concluded that schools in deprived urban areas ‘ are quite untypical of schools in the rest of the country ’ . |
| 22 | I intend speedily to provide a Quantity of Hysteric Drops , being apprehensive of Fits at the Sound of the Post-horn . |
| 23 | NORWICH are setting themselves the toughest of targets over the last nine games of the season as they bid to become champions . |
| 24 | Adam , 52 , and former dancer Jackie had their marriage put to the toughest of tests in the early days . |
| 25 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 26 | This point was particularly underlined by the Chairman , QC , when he stressed the importance of the role and profile of this Committee , as the most representative of Committees within the Bar Council . |
| 27 | The preponderance of clerical workers , Party officials and students in the Congress delegation of 1937 , though not necessarily representative of proportions within the Party , indicates the transformation from the days when over 60 per cent of the members and delegates had been unemployed . |
| 28 | In a study of isolated macrophages , a greater proportion than normal of macrophages from the mucosa of ulcerative colitis patients underwent a respiratory burst to generate superoxide . |
| 29 | He took the finest of lines round the trees at the 13th before hitting the green with a perfectly struck long iron for his four and then was in luck at the 14th . |
| 30 | A second measure was also taken in this study which may provide information relevant to subjects ’ expectations , this was a measure of how well each subject previously knew the each of junctions in the films . |