Example sentences of "[det] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this of course in the late twentieth century . |
| 2 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 3 | She had posted off a length of pale blue silk for Jennifer 's dress , and another of velvet in the same shade for Christopher 's page-boy suit . |
| 4 | However , in practice , because of the difficulties associated with assessing objective benefit already mentioned , the test is diluted to one of whether the transaction is capable of benefiting the company , thus adding little of substance to the subjective test . |
| 5 | This week the bespectacled McAllister has missed little of note on the variable greens . |
| 6 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 7 | However there seems to be little of worth in the other characters to hold up against Thersites 's world view . |
| 8 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |
| 9 | There was nothing complicated and little of interest about the present job . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that some percentage estimates totalled well over 100 , there was little of interest in the analysis of modes of teaching . |
| 11 | The journey immediately ahead held little of interest from the Johnson and Boswell point of view , and nothing much , therefore , to look forward to until the Forres of Macbeth 's witches . |
| 12 | They said little of importance during the meal , but Jane had the feeling that he was watching her , though in a kindly , not a critical way . |
| 13 | ( 1971 ) and Billig ( 1987b ) to be the most prominent : that of benefit to the tourist trade . |
| 14 | An aspect of the problem related to ignorance is that of apathy in the sense that a person says ‘ it 's not worth pursuing it ’ or ‘ let's just forget about it ’ or ‘ it 's just one of those things . ’ |
| 15 | But the basic characteristic common to all types of private nuisance is that of interference with the plaintiff 's proprietary interest in land . |
| 16 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 17 | Emile Ollivier , who was to move from a position of intelligent opposition to that of head of the last real ministry of the Empire , describes the apartments thus : |
| 18 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 19 | This measure was important , first , because it was the first extension from the field of schooling into that of welfare of the principle that a publicly-financed benefit could be granted to those in need , free both of charge and of the disabilities associated with the Poor Law ; second , it was a step towards recognition that parents were not necessarily culpable for the undernourishment of their children and that , with public support , needy children could be well cared for at home and did not require withdrawal into public or voluntary care . |
| 20 | Politically the most important judicial appointment is that of Master of the Rolls . |
| 21 | For the Armagnacs , the acquisition of Rodez was the equivalent of that of Béarn for the counts of Foix . |
| 22 | The difficulty with a post like that of judge of the regality court of Glasgow was that while it could help or harm a political interest , depending upon the use made of the powers of the court by the appointee , the office itself was not a profitable one if the judge was not trying to bend the laws to his own advantage . |
| 23 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 24 | He had first mentioned the concept of ego ideal in his paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ ( 1914 ) , and the notion of ego ideal is later said to be identical with that of super-ego in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) . |
| 25 | The tenant should resist a provision that interest should be deemed to be rent due to the landlord as this will have the effect of making available the remedy of distress as well as that of forfeiture without the necessity to serve a s 146 notice . |
| 26 | He intends to merge the curatorship of the Departments of Prints and Drawings and that of Painting under the Keeper of Paintings . |
| 27 | He had wanted to ensure that his wife would enjoy a smooth transition from that of lady of the great house to one of widowhood . |
| 28 | Amongst the offices listed are the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and that of bailiff of the Manor of Northstead the existence of which is nominal only but ‘ appointment' ’ of a Member of Parliament to which is the traditional manner of resigning a seat . |
| 29 | It is also interesting that the loop in figure 1 has not introduced the real world " element , that of change in the environment , affecting the nature of the systems requirements . |
| 30 | The aim of this study was to compare the uptake of 5-ASA with that of Ac-ASA into the isolated human colonic epithelial cell . |