Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 2 | Given the knowledge of context the analyst has , he should find this a fairly unsurprising utterance . |
| 3 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 4 | The District Council have not addressed the issue of washing-over the village of Skelton within the greenbelt as this is a new issue not raised by . |
| 5 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 6 | Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company . |
| 7 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 8 | A larger proportion of middle-period Byrd has seen the light of day the songs always excepted but never in recitals that attempt to plot stylistic progress . |
| 9 | Those who 've noticed the number of times the Sedgefield MP 's cherubic opinions have been aired on television recently will little doubt it . |
| 10 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 11 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 12 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 13 | From imprints found near the murder scene , they 've found the type of shoe the killer may have been wearing . |
| 14 | Freud seems to have been right in seeing that , at least in Christianity and its associated arts , both in works positively related to it and those antagonistic to it , there is to be found the theme of God the Father , and God the Son , who is sacrificed and eaten in Holy Communion . |
| 15 | It 's … er … not been made public , but the kidnappers have set a deadline of October the eleventh for handing over the document . ’ |
| 16 | Who knows , Charles and Di might still be together had they followed the path of love the Nescafe way : see each other only 11 times in five years , never take your clothes off during sex , and make sure your tongue spends more time in a cup of coffee than in your partner 's mouth . |
| 17 | Yes erm and er I think in the course of that we will have learned a lot of lessons the er that 's not a facetious comment , it 's true er the the first time you write er a software programme erm and any of you will will have experience of this , it takes a long time to get it right . |
| 18 | In this usage we have achieved the goal of equality the moment there is a school in reach of every child . |