Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 3 | Thus , Palmer and Frank ( 1988 ) distinguish between the interpretation of a man-made image ( whose meaning is to be reconstructed ) , and a ‘ natural ’ image ( whose meaning has to be extracted and standardized with belief systems ) . |
| 4 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 5 | They are both over 450 yards and their design , as they curve through the protection of the heavy trees with a scattering of bunkers on the angles of the fairways , induces tremors in even the most hardened competitors . |
| 6 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 7 | Fear about the impact of Ecstasy on health is growing . |
| 8 | ‘ You who so often preach about the catholicity of the Anglican Church , and believe it too . ’ |
| 9 | The craftsmen , and we shall always need them , combine through the use of the whole range of human skills such extra elements as proportion , difference , originality , and the ability to work with the grain or the particular unique characteristics of the materials they work with . |
| 10 | Regret for the loss of the use of force against those who reneged on their promise to pay later may still be harboured by some in secret , but no longer publicly . |
| 11 | National styles in music can be powerful , especially when the listeners of one nation are presented with music so powerfully impressed with what they perceive as the style of another . |
| 12 | It has shaped those fashions , sounds and images young people around the world perceive as the essence of being British . |
| 13 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 14 | If this does not happen , I fear for the future of this denomination which I love and to which I am loyal . |
| 15 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 16 | I ca n't afford to fight this in the American courts and I genuinely fear for the safety of my children . ’ |
| 17 | In deciding what words mean for the purpose of defamation , the intention of the writer or speaker is largely irrelevant . |
| 18 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 19 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 20 | ‘ Too-much change for the sake of change . |
| 21 | It 's just change for the sake of it . ’ |
| 22 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 23 | Apart from the elderly living alone , married couples predominate as the type of household containing elderly people in need of care … |
| 24 | Only the two letters of Anselm remain as the record of an extraordinary conflict between contradictory passions , in their own way as poignant as those of Abelard and Heloise twenty years later . |
| 25 | Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland . |
| 26 | It is expected to be operational with an office in Brussels early next year and although some doubts remain about the scope of the redefined Scotland Europa , the Council has agreed , in principle , to support the initiative . |
| 27 | Bones 1986b ) would help account for the existence of " London Jamaican " when there is no " London Bajan " , " London Trinidadian " or " London Guyanese " . |
| 28 | Other equally valid fits might also be obtained by allowing the 18-day decay to depart from a pure exponential ; it would then be possible , for example , to obtain a solution in which the two asymptotic increases account for the whole of the increase in rotation rate . |
| 29 | Various other tales account for the origin of the fairy godmother — one has it that , like the Italian witch Befana , a fairy godmother was actually looking endlessly for the Christ Child . |
| 30 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |