Example sentences of "of [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , that 's another project that went sort of slowly the way . |
| 2 | With all this , and the union vice-president talking in terms unheard of since the heyday of the Industrial Workers of the World , you begin to understand why it is imperative for capitalism that Pittston succeeds in its attempt to break the UMWA . |
| 3 | The Rolls Royce Silverlady — the emblem of arguably the world 's most famous and finest car . |
| 4 | The Soviet Government , without giving reasons , was demanding as of right the repatriation of all its citizens displaced by the war , without exception and irrespective of their wishes . |
| 5 | The safest way to do this is to write a program which consists of only the machine code routines and enough BBCBASIC(Z80) to assemble them . |
| 6 | This appears to envisage rules which require the disclosure of only the arrangements for the payment of commission and not of the actual amount . |
| 7 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 8 | Mr Spencer was persuaded north as the press 's secretary , and dramatically expanded its output from some 20 academic titles a year to around 90 , an expansion achieved with an increase of only the Polygon staff to EUP 's 14 indefatigable full-time staff members . |
| 9 | SIB Core Rule 18(2) and SFA Rule 5 — 33(2) permit disclosure of only the basis of commission to a private customer . |
| 10 | A combination of a biographical dictionary of activists begun in the 1920s ( which was cut short by Stalin after completion of only the volumes covering the 1860s , 70s and a small proportion of the activists of 1880–1904 ) and the meticulous records of the Police and Justice Departments on political arrests have made possible rough estimates of the number who actually fell foul of the authorities . |
| 11 | So it 's twenty miles an hour times the number of So the distance which is in miles is equal to twenty miles an hour times hours . |
| 12 | Many of the initial questions were of exactly the type the previous week 's session had been intended to prevent . |
| 13 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 14 | If capital markets are imperfect , they can cause shifts in supply , of exactly the sort described above , which magnify what may initially be relatively small shocks to economies . |
| 15 | The ground floor consisted of just the sitting-room and a large kitchen . |
| 16 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 17 | A company needs extremely good conversion and testing tools for these jobs — of just the kind that are available for the 88000 , argues Heath — even more so given that some end-user customers are even demanding certification as part of their acquisition and procurement process , 88open says . |
| 18 | A company needs extremely good porting and testing tools for these jobs — of just the kind that are available for the 88000 , argues Heath — even more so given that some end-user customers are even demanding certification as part of their acquisition/procurement process , 88open says . |
| 19 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 20 | The Carstairs system ( after Joseph Carstairs , died 1820 ) involved using the whole forearm in the business of writing , instead of just the fingers . |
| 21 | Later , when the infant becomes capable of relating to whole objects , such as the mother instead of just the breast , it develops more integrative mechanisms in terms of what is called the depressive position . |
| 22 | But not only that at the end he 's also , as well as the house he 's getting a pension as well instead of just the house . |
| 23 | ‘ Trade knows no gentlemen , ’ her father replied loftily , as if he himself was an important landowner instead of just the foreman of a modest building firm . |
| 24 | The course took all of Friday to put up instead of just the morning but things improved in the evening . |
| 25 | And then we used to trim it and er a hat there made of just the straw with a band and bow was over three pound which was a lot of money in those days . |
| 26 | This last issue is of just the sort that , in a ‘ real ’ analysis , should be asked in the first phase of the study . |
| 27 | Whilst I know of no specific legend attached to them , the Tingle Stone and the Twizzle Stone , both in Gloucestershire , are very suggestive of just the sort of effects which have been reported at standing stones in recent years . |
| 28 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 29 | Liberal economic policies , including deregulation of trade , financial services , and privatisation , have created a flourishing zone of small industries — clothes-making , shoes , toys — of just the sort that a poor country needs . |
| 30 | Congratulations , and sets of Just The Words to J Howard , Birmingham ; S Bryant , London W13 ; M Walker , Wirral . |