Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas .
2 In any event , come again , we always have a great deal of variety here at the theatre and if you are a speedy worker , you should do very well . ’
3 There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus .
4 The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process .
5 For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation .
6 Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there .
7 Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ .
8 One day their terms of reference will be agreed and there 'll be no mention of happiness anywhere in the document .
9 The raids were followed by a military action on the ground , and neutral Cambodia was drawn into the conflict , with appalling loss of life there over the next few years .
10 The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with .
11 1.56 If it is a fatal accident case , full details of the dependants and the loss of dependency up to the date of the application must be included .
12 Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner .
13 Hering realized that disease was the result of imbalance somewhere in the body and that if a true cure was to be effected , the imbalance had to be corrected .
14 Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary .
15 Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven .
16 Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello .
17 The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation .
18 As they rode cautiously along , Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees .
19 One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time .
20 We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day .
21 Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon .
22 This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record .
23 The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall .
24 Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English .
25 A second compulsory course ( taught by development studies specialists ) would be on the Principles and practice of development both at the macro level ( eg the place of the Third World countries in the world economy ) and the micro level ( eg community organisation ; role of church-related NGOs ) .
26 I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it .
27 He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others .
28 I put the piece of meat back into the mess tin .
29 Alice 's room was tiny , with a single bed , one other piece of furniture apart from the wall cupboard , a small chair , and a narrow window that would not open .
30 Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body .
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