Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | This is loss of hearing mainly for the high-pitched sounds ; sometimes the low-pitched sounds are little affected . |
| 3 | Mr Stringer , a most gracious loser despite experiencing the disappointment of missing out at the penultimate stage for the second time in three years , asked : ‘ What more do you have to do to prove yourself . ’ |
| 4 | There are nasty stories of greed overcoming sense , and of hideous lip lacerations as a result of biting directly into the fruit . |
| 5 | Giddy , weak , no longer interested in the inedible , and with even my fear of meeting again with the Mamba overridden by ravenous hunger , I stumbled over a heap of damaged hassocks towards a door marked in red letters , FIRE DOOR — KEEP CLOSED . |
| 6 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 7 | Maybe it was the fear of going anywhere near the angst-ridden territory so comprehensively covered by The Smiths , maybe it was the fact that being stoned out of your mind was suddenly fashionable again — but neither the baggy bunch nor the floppy-fringed waifs who enjoyed the post-Madchester plaudits came anywhere near the kind of emotional rush peddled by Morrissey 's men . |
| 8 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 9 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 10 | in the practice of teaching solely to the tests HMI were obliged to administer to pupils annually ; and not least |
| 11 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 12 | Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup . |
| 13 | It 's always held a special meaning for me , and when the development is completed I have every intention of moving back into the area and making my home here . |
| 14 | Mr Smith had firmly kept to his intention of dealing only with the financial side of the business and absolutely refused to participate in the selection of Girls . |
| 15 | In the Russian Federation , for instance , the Tatar Republic adopted a declaration of independence in October 1991 and declared its intention of affiliating independently to the newly established Commonwealth . |
| 16 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 17 | Back at base , Stirling had every intention of staying out in the desert and carrying on his raiding operations . |
| 18 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 19 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |
| 20 | For that matter , all of us are familiar with the experience of trying , and perhaps managing , to guess the author of a piece of writing simply on the evidence of his language . |
| 21 | Because of the humidity , below freezing temperatures feel colder than they are and can have the harmful effect of biting deep into the vine and this can be fatal if the sap has started to rise . |
| 22 | It is interesting to speculate on the likely effect of opting out on the present independent schools . |
| 23 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
| 24 | It also accused the trade and industry department of behaving unprofessionally over the sale and the inquiry . |
| 25 | The garrison conjectured that the sepoys ' powder had been soaked by the downpour … there was even wild talk of breaking out of the enclave and escaping to safety . |
| 26 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 27 | Thanks to the several hundred Young Guardian readers who wrote their accounts of Growing Up In the Eighties for the Outloud column . |
| 28 | It is , however , a very personal and supportive communication and , from a historian 's point of view could have the advantage of showing more about the people writing the letters than the scientific work under discussion . |
| 29 | The advantage of finding out about the pupil 's present level of visual functioning is that it can be considered as a starting point . |
| 30 | at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own . |