Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties , as had most of his friends . |
| 2 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 3 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 4 | A striking price is arrived at which will be in excess of the minimum offer price if the issue is oversubscribed otherwise at the minimum tender price , and the issue is allocated in proportion to the size of the bids regardless of the price bid ( except those that underbid the striking price ) . |
| 5 | Last night trained officers were trying to coax details of the ordeal out of the victim in an attempt to build a picture of the rapist . |
| 6 | The stored program concept , the realization that instructions can be encoded and held in the store of the computer together with the data being operated on , is an important one for two reasons . |
| 7 | ‘ If you agree , Admiral , I suggest that Vincent contacts Greek Intelligence after Theodore has finished that list and furnishes them with a list of the towns together with the appropriate names and addresses . |
| 8 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 9 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 10 | Other justices appointed were V. Ramaswamy , P. B. Sawant , Narendra Mohan Kasliwal , M. M. Punchi and J. Ramaswamy , bringing the composition of the Court up to the full strength of 26 . |
| 11 | Using census data , scores were derived for areas of the country either on the basis of ward or enumerator district ( with average populations of 5327 and 450 respectively ) and extra money is provided to practices with a higher proportion of factors perceived by a representative sample of doctors to equate to high patient demand . |
| 12 | According to a potential erosion hazard map produced by Stocking ( 1975 ) , a modified version of which is given in Fig. 7.3 , the areas with the highest erosion potential are located mainly in the northern part of the country especially in the Zambesi Valley and the Mutoko District . |
| 13 | The Albanian authorities , however , strenuously denied reports alleging popular unrest centred on Shkodër , Albania 's second largest city , in the north of the country close to the Yugoslav border . |
| 14 | Belief in these three Pates is said to have been very deep-rooted in Greece , and apparently survived in parts of the country almost till the present day , where birth customs included rites to propitiate these goddesses . |
| 15 | Right from the beginning , we argued that the revolutionary process in El Salvador could only be carried out through a popular war in which the incorporation of the civil population is essential When we take over a village or settlement and the enemy forces are ousted … we begin the work of consciousness raising about the situation of the country together with the work of organizing the local population . |
| 16 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 17 | you 're actually pushing the head of the femur back into the joint |
| 18 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 19 | and er the children used to play on the banks of the Nile early in the morning when they got up , there was all sand there . |
| 20 | Then he dropped the rest of the portion back on the plate , went to the fridge , poured the dregs of a bottle of wine into a glass and drank it . |
| 21 | ‘ De Craon is there , ’ Selkirk rasped and pointed to a figure at the centre of the galley just between the two masts . |
| 22 | Beginning in the 1940s , they used Beef Shorthorn bulls on Highland cows and crossed the best of the heifers back to the Shorthorn bull , Cruggleton Alastair , and followed this with a careful and deliberate system of inbreeding and then line-breeding to establish the breed , which was officially recognised in 1965 . |
| 23 | From the window of the Administration block overlooking the open ground of the camp close to the inner gates , the Major watched as the prisoners were again lined in fives and counted , a necessary formality because this marked their passing from the charge of the MVD transport guard into the hands of the MVD Correctional Labour Detachment . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross just as that brass serpent was put on a pole in the camp of , in the middle of Israel , of the , of the camp there in the er , there in the wilderness . |
| 25 | Compare the description of the agony in In the Same boat ( a story the end of which is truer to the experience than i– the end of The Brushwood Boy ) : ‘ Suppose you were a violin string — vibrating — and someone put his finger on you ’ with the image of the ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ for the breaking wave in The finest Story in the World . |
| 26 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 27 | ‘ Captain Owen is deep in the toils of the accountants just at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | In the article ‘ Communications linguistique et spéculaire : modèles génétiques et modèles pathologiques ’ Irigaray traces the constitution of the subject not to the symbolic mastery of the mother by the child , as do Freud and Lacan , but to a recognition of the positionality of subject and object in language use . |
| 29 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 30 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |