Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically the choice of subjects only goes to prove that most new jobs in British engineering are paid for by defence contracts . |
| 2 | Now in the sphere of crystal physics the problem though complex , does not involve any new concepts , rather the question of scale only . |
| 3 | Soaps , bubble bath and the like are all alkaline and best avoided completely , especially the use of soap anywhere near the vagina . |
| 4 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |
| 5 | Much of what he said was lost in the noise , but once , as we climbed a precipitous path and were no more than four metres apart , I heard him cry aloud the name of William again . |
| 6 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 7 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 8 | The strike was never solid , supported by all NUM members , and as it progressed so the number of miners still holding out diminished . |
| 9 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 10 | However , the existence of a discretion in the judge to exclude legally admissible evidence , so as to secure the fairness of the trial , was recognised as extending further than merely the exclusion of evidence more prejudicial than probative . |
| 11 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the Bank of England still requires banks ( and other institutions in the monetary sector ) to maintain sufficient liquidity , and from time to time it can order them to increase their liquidity ratio if it feels that this is necessary . |
| 13 | Thus the principle of indiscernibles now seems to reduce to the thesis that if there were duplicate monads and duplicate worlds , we ourselves , relying on our own cognitive resources , would not be in a position to distinguish them . |
| 14 | Thus the rate of reaction practically doubles at 308K . |
| 15 | Thus the co-operation of kin either within or across households to maximize resources contains an element of mutual support , but is structured by gender . |
| 16 | They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do . |
| 17 | It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing . |
| 18 | Mr Chairman , it 's just , just the sort of reason why we did n't su did n't support spending eight thousand pounds on , on some low pay unit , this is just the sort of thing that we feel that , that Committee 's money should be spent on . |
| 19 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 20 | The Second International Study of Infarct Survival ( ISIS-2 ) showed conclusively the efficacy of aspirin both alone and in conjunction with thrombolytic therapy for the treatment of evolving acute myocardial infarction . |
| 21 | Moreover the death of Albert only served to emphasize the emotional burden which he was now craving : the increasing loneliness of the ageing Janie Moore , and the total isolation of his brother . |
| 22 | I still had to do homework when I got back home because nobody knew how quickly the floods would disappear so there was still the possibility of school tomorrow . |
| 23 | The à la glace or freezing method was invented by Armand Walfart in 1884 and is still the method of dégorgement most commonly used today . |
| 24 | And in an increasingly unsafe world , it 's still the sort of place where you can send a small . |
| 25 | Taylor had already lost four original choices from his squad of 31 before the weekend , and yesterday the list of players definitely out increased alarmingly . |
| 26 | Structuralism ends up in passivity , although sometimes more the passivity of despair rather than acceptance … . |
| 27 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 28 | Since the important variable in population size is always the number of females rather than the number of males ( because one male can impregnate a large number of females but any female can only manage one pregnancy at a time ) , selective forces determine that the daytime gelada social structure is one in which a single dominant male forages with an attendant group of females and young . |
| 29 | The roof contains double the thickness of insulation normally included in a new home , the ground floors are thermally insulated and the traditional brick/block external cavity wall insulation has been increased . |
| 30 | Yeah mind you , we 're nearly the end of March now |