Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One advantage of the correction of twice the number of degrees off track , is that it produces the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle . |
| 4 | Decisions of either the Council of Ministers or the European Commission are merely a means of enunciating policies or initiating actions . |
| 5 | I could use it , of course , and it has to be said that there are a lot of solos being played out there with exactly the kind of sounds the ME-10 produces . |
| 6 | But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 8 | The department offers a full range of courses , from those for beginners ( including a non-graduating Italian Language half-course , of particular interest to students from outside the Faculty of Arts ) to advanced courses in language , the literature and history of all periods and other aspects of Italian culture , such as cinema . |
| 9 | The indirect method was a natural though not inevitable growth from the fact that trustees could be selected from outside the class of heirs . |
| 10 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 11 | Whereas until now the doing of tasks was a public function ( home help , care assistant , district nurse , meals on wheels ) and their integration into an overall care plan was a private function , now the public sector proposes to do the co-ordinating and the private , voluntary and informal will do the actual caring work . |
| 12 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 13 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 14 | Moreover , these variations were found not to be fully explained by differences in either the kind of offences with which each court had to deal , or the offenders coming before them . |
| 15 | This gentle admonition did little to still the clamour of unilateralists in the churches ; yet there must surely be many Christians who have retained enough faith in divine Providence to believe that the world will not end unless God wills it and that , if He does , it will be for the best . |
| 16 | However hard a head or a governing body may try to remain outside the arena of competition , the insistence of parent interests and community awareness and the effect on even the price of houses in a local estate agent 's listings will continue to make sure that parents believe that clever children , as measured in the national assessment , are produced by good schools and by good teachers . |
| 17 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 18 | Endless lessons jacked in to a computer without even the star-dance of meanings to cheer . |
| 19 | Since then the number of users has only increased and the market has been penetrated with new drugs . |
| 20 | Sooner or later , one must plump for either the primacy of micro-processes in socio-logical explanation , or for the primacy of macro-processes as in notions of ‘ encapsulation ’ , 'centre and periphery' , ‘ dominance and dependency ’ , Marxist theory , and the like . |
| 21 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 22 | Her children knew at once the sort of things that these would be . |
| 23 | Because there are , I do n't know how many sites Tarmac run , but there must be at least the number of sites that they 've ever run divided by two standard ways of planning , Tarmac . |
| 24 | If offers are received in respect of at least the number of shares which the company wishes to purchase , the company will calculate the lowest price ( striking price ) acceptable to sufficient shareholders to ensure that all the shares required are sold . |
| 25 | My personal feeling is that it would be a brave student indeed who would take on such a wide-ranging and non-traditional approach to literary studies without at least the understanding of tutors , and preferably with their co-operation and guidance . |
| 26 | By far the majority of students spend their years at University with a minimum of uncertainty but when difficulties arise , the Director of Studies is there to help . |
| 27 | For this reason , by far the majority of takeovers proceed by way of a takeover offer . |
| 28 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |