Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 2 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
| 3 | Is there anything else that you learned thinking of the exercise now listening when you put the shoe on the other foot and you have to stick to . |
| 4 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 5 | ( I sometimes wonder whether there is not an element of satire addressed by Shakespeare against the persona of the poet here , who can argue with such single-mindedness a case that seems the height of egoism in its intention to exploit the other — a woman — merely in order to reproduce itself . ) |
| 6 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 7 | He was named Postie of the Year yesterday , winning a £1,000 travel voucher in a competition organised by BBC Radio Two and the Royal Mail . |
| 8 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 9 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 10 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | The sexual ineptitude of the voyeur usually renders him harmless . |
| 12 | Where the caring takes place will often decide who does the bulk of the task anyway , and this is a crucial decision which needs talking about well in advance , particularly where ageing parents are concerned . |
| 13 | We should never forget that it is in vocabulary that the bulk of the language actually lies . |
| 14 | The bulk of the electorate also remained loyal to the same party in successive elections . |
| 15 | Such was not apparently the view of the bulk of the membership however , and the chance was lost to try an experiment in creating greater unity while the numbers of women were still comparatively low . |
| 16 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 17 | Gordon H. Wright , very much the driving force of the movement so far as librarians were concerned , declared in a letter to the Library Association Record in September 1961 : |
| 18 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 19 | His design theory was based on the belief that natural forms should be abstracted and made geometric for use in ornamentation , and he likened the designer 's mind to ‘ the vital force of the plant ever developing itself into forms of beauty ’ . |
| 20 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 21 | Julia Garvey 's body was found in one bedroom of the family home at Teddington near Cheltenham … the two children Ben aged 4 and Hannah aged 2 were in a bedroom next door . |
| 22 | Plundering en route was forbidden , probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons . |
| 23 | The client must proceed at the speed of the tape rather than in their own time . |
| 24 | This is appropriate enough for highly repetitive routine tasks because , as mentioned earlier , the operator is probably proceeding with little conscious attention and the limitation on performance is in the speed of the action rather than in the informational control . |
| 25 | It has got inherent checks and balances , it has its own agreement , it is professionally run and there is no function for the president of the FISA here other than to turn up occasionally and literally be seen about . |
| 26 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 27 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 28 | The statement also said : ‘ The Prime Minister and the president of the commission today had a discussion covering a number of subjects relating to the Edinburgh summit as well as the present difficulties in reaching agreement on the Gatt Uruguay round and the oil seeds dispute . |
| 29 | Effective political control is exercised by the ( communist ) Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ) , established in 1946 by Kim Il Sung , who was re-elected President of the republic most recently in December 1986 [ see p. 34943 ] . |
| 30 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |