Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite simply , having no formulated statement is like walking through your own minefield without the benefit of a map of where the mines were laid . |
| 2 | Try Keezer 's own tune , Leilani 's Mirror for a cross-section of both the quality of the quartet and the young New Yorker 's evident writing abilities . |
| 3 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 4 | Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 5 | Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 6 | The function of a number of body systems is affected as a result of both the generalised tissue oedema and hypotension . |
| 7 | What , however , should already be evident as a result of both the historical and anthropological materials investigated in this chapter is that , just as with material culture in general , in many social studies ( with the conspicuous exception of economics ) a stress on consumption is a necessary corollary to its previous neglect . |
| 8 | The reporter gene would then serve as a marker of when the chromatin became ‘ open ’ to regulatory and transcription factors . |
| 9 | The first necessary stage in the exercise of the ‘ right of access ’ is to discover the existence of the files , since ‘ access ’ is not a meaningful term unless combined with a knowledge of where the files are . |
| 10 | The chapter ends with a discussion of how the growing problem of managing the additive agendas created by international developments affects governments ' bargaining power and their behaviour towards the multinationals . |
| 11 | Even Italy , which suffered recurrent economic stagnation from the seventeenth century to the 1950s , claims to have overtaken the UK in the value of production per head ( with a population of virtually the same size ) . |
| 12 | I feel the time is now right to respond to local bargaining initiatives , C C T and L M S , with a review of how the research department could best provide their services to the people at the sharp end . |
| 13 | Different parties offer different quantities of public goods together with a statement of how the money will be raised through the tax system . |
| 14 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 15 | I do not see how this can be done without a trial of both the action and the claim to contribution . |
| 16 | It was looking a mess because I had n't had the heart to tidy it ; the sky outside had a yellow-grey sameness , without a hint of where the sun might be , and in that light the flowers on the dirty brown wallpaper looked sadder than ever . |
| 17 | Third , the war reminded us that where the combination of manipulation and censorship is used to exercise control and power it leads to a dehumanisation of both the controlled and the controller . |
| 18 | The local authority fixes the amount subject to a maximum of twice the personal community charge . |
| 19 | The same force on a rod of twice the area will not deform by — but by — /2.; |
| 20 | He argued that when a material can undergo viscous flow and also respond elastically to a stress it should be described by a combination of both the Newton and Hooke laws . |