Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will form all sorts of categories too and the worst thing you can do in sa in er negotiating advertising er Richard is to prejudge anybody |
| 2 | On the other hand , it can be a great deal of fun even if the stakes are quite high . |
| 3 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 4 | If prevention of future misconduct occurs , it does so as a result of negotiation rather than the deterrence which ( presumably ) inhibits future rule-breaking in a sanctioning system . |
| 5 | The dominance of the study of cemeteries up until the end of the nineteenth century was unavoidable , but this source of distortion on our understanding of the period has remained almost to the present day . |
| 6 | CFS maintain a wide stock of templates so that the profile of the blade can be ‘ retuned ’ and its performance brought back to optimum . |
| 7 | It is the fear of exclusion rather than the positive desire to be included that is driving these countries to apply for EC membership . |
| 8 | The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns . |
| 9 | Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ . |
| 10 | There is often a fast turnover of patients especially if the surgical ward is one which deals with a large number of minor procedures , which involve only one night in hospital or for which the patient is admitted as a " day case " . |
| 11 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 12 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 13 | The two minders were either side of Marcus now and the floor jumped at him . |
| 14 | Having come out of that side of politics rather than the other , I always start where people are , and with what they want , and what their lives are like , and what will help them . |
| 15 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 16 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 17 | Some of these writers have taken the view that as part of this class war management , on behalf of capital , have been able to steer the direction of technological change along a particular path , stimulating certain developments at the expense of others so that the interests of capital are better served , and the interests of labour are countered . |
| 18 | BT is now crawling into the age of the silicon chip and the death of the British Telecommunications Bill , which would have allowed the government to sell off about half of BT , does not have to calm this wind of change even if the Labour party wins the election and reinstates BT 's monopoly . |
| 19 | They believed that , instead of conferring greater powers on provincial governors , the regime should create an additional network of provincial administrators who would owe their allegiance to the tsar and whose prime purpose would be the maintenance of order rather than the fostering of local initiative . |
| 20 | In this situation production responds to the demands of marketing rather than the other way round . |
| 21 | The regular association of passive structures with adversity in certain languages means that the passive can often carry connotations of unpleasantness even when the event depicted is not normally seen as unpleasant . |
| 22 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 23 | Men in the West seem to fear this dichotomy , although it is not a separation but more a reorganisation of life so that the spiritual gains the most important part and the rest of life falls into place beneath . |
| 24 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 25 | We have decided that in April 1992 there will be a flat rate reduction of £2 rather than the £3 of last year . |
| 26 | More critical for our present concern ( which is the need to explain the context-specificity of latent inhibition ) is the fact that latent inhibition can be abolished by a change of context even when the test context is fully familiar , provided that pre-exposure to the test context and the target stimulus have taken place separately . |
| 27 | Nothing concentrates the mind of the pursuer 's solicitor more than the possibility that he may require to look to his own client for payment of expenses rather than the defender ! |
| 28 | But gender distinctions in the case of human referents are not arbitrary , and that is why Lyons , for instance , suggests that what is important in communication is the pronominal function of gender rather than the category of gender in general ( 1968 ) . |
| 29 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 30 | A takeover of a public company ( often a management buy-out ) which is financed by a high level of borrowings so that the offeror is left in a highly-geared position . |