Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 2 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 3 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 4 | Scrutiny of Table 7.1 reveals that hospital and maternity services account for the majority of funds . |
| 5 | If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar . |
| 6 | The Rules ( a summary of which can be found in Chapter 12 ) provide for the raising of contributions to the Fund from every partner and every other solicitor held out by his firm as a partner . |
| 7 | It provides the framework for an interpretation of action but the full story is only revealed by an examination of the rules which direct action and which provide for the interpretation of situations . |
| 8 | We will introduce a 110-day limit on the length of time for which a prisoner may be held before trial , repeal the broadcasting ban , and provide for the videotaping of police interviews with terrorist suspects . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Deviations from sections II , VIII , VIIIa , IX , X and XI are permissible for a period not extending beyond Dec. 31 , 1995. ( 3 ) Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2 above , Article 41 of the Unification Treaty and the rules for its implementation shall remain valid in so far as they provide for the irreversibility of interferences with property in the territory specified in Article 3 of the said treaty " . |
| 10 | As it is drawn up , swags appear between the rows of rings , forming a scalloped hemline . |
| 11 | This section reviews the trends in income and income maintenance while the next section examines what these trends suggest about the position of families headed by Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents . |
| 12 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 13 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 14 | Many disagree about the sequence of reforms . |
| 15 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 16 | When I browse through the list of tracks on Beechwood 's latest release ( the 11th ) in their ‘ Indie Top 20 Chart Hits ’ series and note the success of Carter TUSM , The Charlatans , Flowered Up , Teenage Fan Club , The Shamen , and others , things do n't seem so down after all . |
| 17 | ‘ It appears that you are willing to sacrifice what you want for the good of others , ’ he said softly . |
| 18 | The picture these volumes provide about the working of canals and their general state at the beginning of this century is vast and complex . |
| 19 | Here , the grunts , purrs , croaks and drums of courting fish mingle with the snapping of shrimps and the crackling of barnacles . |
| 20 | Expanding into partial fractions and comparison of coefficients in the numerators establishes that or , following suitable algebraic manipulation , that Consequently and taking the inverse transform with the help of equations ( 11.33 ) , ( 11.34 ) and ( 11.38 ) where as in the series , resonant , step response . |
| 21 | Next consider the situation when a switch is closed at time to connect a steady e.m.f. to a series circuit comprising just capacitance C and resistance R. In these circumstances Kirchhoff 's voltage law gives and taking the Laplace transform with the aid of relations ( 11.20 ) and ( 11.31 ) , the corresponding equation is obtained . |
| 22 | No industry 's cash flow is entirely stable ; some of the services included in Mr Roach 's definition may be more cyclical than they once were , since many are now handling tasks subcontracted by manufacturing firms ( such as cleaning , waste disposal or advertising ) and thus shift with the fortunes of factories . |
| 23 | If they sleep in the shade of prohibitions for foreign goods , besides harming the Treasury and the Nation , they will harm themselves . |
| 24 | What range of choice , for example , does English provide in the use of complements or for determiners ? |
| 25 | These cover a period from 1442 to 1560 and obviously do not represent the whole of the villagers at this time , but are of those whose names appear in the index of wills of the Rochester Consistory Court . |
| 26 | These specific figures appear in the Assessment of Resources Regulations and not in the Act , and so can be easily uprated as necessary . |
| 27 | Mendel deduced , from the way in which characteristics appear in the progeny of crosses , that these characteristics were caused by ‘ factors ’ which obeyed certain rules ( for example , that there are two factors in an individual , of which each gamete receives only one , at random ) . |
| 28 | They often appear in the form of socks and underwear left on the bedroom floor , lawn-mower left out in the rain , toilet seat left up , or bank account overdrawn . |
| 29 | They do not , however , appear in the dictionary of superstitions , so that might be a better day in future , if there is to be a future , for graveyard rambling . |
| 30 | Will emphasis shift from the provision of services with a high value-added component to the bulk handling of a large number of fairly simple enquiries ? |