Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 2 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 3 | According to Alexander Henderson , in The History of Ancient Wines ( 1824 ) , the ninth century saw the beginning of a distinction between the various wines of Champagne ; references henceforth distinguish between the wines of the Vallée de la Marne and those of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 4 | The happy medium mean between the extremes of hot and cold furnishes to the chaste and sober eye all that can be wished for . ’ |
| 5 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 6 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 7 | I always fear for the fingers of the Portuguese works who feed these strips through the punching machines that make the corks , deftly guiding faults in the strip away from the cutter . |
| 8 | Their BMW cars purr through the streets of the capital , La Paz . |
| 9 | Principals of firms operating mainly from overseas offices are not taken into account for the purposes of calculating the premium payable by an MNP for indemnity insurance and the fee income from all overseas practice is excluded from the computations . |
| 10 | It will clearly be in the interest of the headtenant if the service charge is left out of account for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease . |
| 11 | IHTA 1984 , s18(2) states that if immediately before a transfer the transferor ( but not the transferor 's spouse ) is domiciled in the United Kingdom , the value in respect of which the transfer is exempt shall not exceed £55,000 less any amount previously taken into account for the purposes of that exemption . |
| 12 | It is likely that such shares ( and their acquisition ) will be taken into account for the purposes of the rule ( note to Rule 36 ) . |
| 13 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 14 | Together they comb through the writings of the two Victorians , and gradually the true facts of the romance are revealed . |
| 15 | The claims which they make for the consequences of literacy belong to the same tradition . |
| 16 | no withholding tax on dividends received from EC subsidiaries under the terms of the EC parent/subsidiary directive ( the UK and Denmark have agreed that Gibraltar companies qualify for the benefits of the directive ; other countries still have to indicate their stance ) ; |
| 17 | ENGLAND shrugged off the loss of injured captain Chris Sheasby to beat CIS Bears 24–10 , Hong Kong 22–12 and Ponsonby ( NZ ) 26–0 and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Dubai Sevens rugby union tournament , where they face the Bahrain Warblers . |
| 18 | IF ENGLAND qualify for the semi-finals of the seventh World Cup at Lahore next February , they will have a three-day rest before trying to qualify for their second successive World Cup final . |
| 19 | IF England qualify for the semi-finals of the seventh World Cup at Lahore next February , they will have a three-day rest before trying to qualify for their second successive World Cup final . |
| 20 | Energy efficiency , natural gas and the limited contribution to electricity supplies from renewable resources will not be enough to contain increases in carbon dioxide and provide for the needs of a fast-expanding world population . |
| 21 | As it is drawn up , swags appear between the rows of rings , forming a scalloped hemline . |
| 22 | The ‘ harm to interests ’ test for the kinds of enforceable obligation conceals rival conceptions of distributive justice rather than a balancing of economic liberties . |
| 23 | Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ? |
| 24 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 25 | It is very stable , very comfortable ( forget about the layers of foam mat to pad the seat ) and sufficiently directionally stable to be a real pleasure on coastal trips . |
| 26 | Seaweeds , which are multicellular algae , and submerged flowering plants such as the eelgrass Zostera , grow near the edges of the sea . |
| 27 | She was past caring who saw her bound up like a chicken , when she felt the blunt tip of his throbbing penis nudge against the portals of her dripping honeypot . |
| 28 | He cites Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire , where the earthworks of a deserted village mingle with the remains of the Cistercian monastic site . |
| 29 | No industry 's cash flow is entirely stable ; some of the services included in Mr Roach 's definition may be more cyclical than they once were , since many are now handling tasks subcontracted by manufacturing firms ( such as cleaning , waste disposal or advertising ) and thus shift with the fortunes of factories . |
| 30 | They slip into the shadows of the treacherous world of drug dealing and end up being swallowed up by the lifestyle they are out to eradicate . |