Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times — by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff . |
| 2 | It certainly erm , sent a shock of horror though the whole country , |
| 3 | Of course even the best power carving system is only as good as its edge . |
| 4 | Now consider the other half of the T-type m-derived section shown in figure 9.11(b) , which is of course just the same network as the first half already considered and shown in figure 9.11(a) but with the input and output terminals interchanged . |
| 5 | Existentialism is of course neither the only nor necessarily the best framework in which to locate suffering . |
| 6 | But beat duty was of course not the only punitive experience for the rank-and-file policeman . |
| 7 | He was of course not the only one : the idea of a nation roused to righteous anger and determined to crush Nazism in the most resolute manner , applied — and then chiefly because of the fire and resolution of one man , Churchill — not to that period but to a year later . |
| 8 | Stirling appears to have told someone in R.A.F. Ops. about it , but of course not the right man . |
| 9 | We then perform the iteration , omitting the first element of ( 4 ) : unc The numbers produced in this way reproduced exactly those of the last three elements in the columns of Table 1 , as well as the dividing factors ; they are of course exactly the same calculations , but with the matrices associated differently . |
| 10 | The new sounds in the target language , and of course especially the difficult ones , cause the most obvious pronunciation problems in language learning . |
| 11 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 12 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 13 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 14 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 15 | The good news is that , even in the minority of cases where the only solution is to leave your job and try your luck elsewhere , it is unusual for a dispute to arise that is so serious that you finish up in front of a judge or an industrial tribunal . |
| 16 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 17 | A graded bed represents a pulse of sedimentation whenever the critical concentration is attained . |
| 18 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 19 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 20 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 21 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 22 | Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops . |
| 23 | Nineteenth-century medicine debated ovulation and menstruation , its imagination captured by a view of conception wherein the female role was passive and automatic , rather than active and triggered by sexual pleasure . |
| 24 | In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve . |
| 25 | The Windscale cloud however , passed over most of the cities of England so the collective dose would be higher . |
| 26 | For many seminary-trained churchmen this was a radical change in both direction and spirit after some eighty years of official censures and directives , which too often saw a danger of heresy whenever the human part in the dialogue of revelation and the development of doctrine were explored . |
| 27 | Some very good examples of solution effects may be observed on the coast of Glamorgan where the Carboniferous Limestone emerges as the wavecut platform from beneath Liassic cliffs , for example near Nash Point . |
| 28 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most striking difference between the northern and southern islands is in the distribution of mountains where the high series of peaks ( averaging 550 m above sea level ) of north Harris and south Lewis have no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 30 | A City of Ruins where the faceless tyranny of the towerblock dictates to all . |