Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 2 | Do n't wait for it Appleton if you want to save your insipid self from being punctured or badly handled all you can Do for the Better of our ESTEEMED BURMA is GET OUT ! |
| 3 | For the two-thirds of families between $5700 and $35 500 , the tax ratio varies only in the range 32.4–33.9 per cent . |
| 4 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 5 | our party 's we 've arranged our Christmas party for our residents for the nineteenth of |
| 6 | An ardent Puritan and uncompromising parliamentarian , Moyer in June 1642 was made a manager of the ‘ Sea Adventure ’ , through which the city undertook to find ships and men for the reconquest of Ireland . |
| 7 | Against a Coventry side in no fit state to make much of a fist of it , Liley was away like the wind midway through the second half on a 45-yard run for the second of Leicester 's four tries . |
| 8 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 9 | For the second of the historical periods mentioned ( 1538–1801 ) the following books ( all available in paperback ) are most useful background texts : Sixteenth Century England by Joyce Youings ( London 1984 ) , English Society in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Spufford ( 1985 ) , and English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter ( London 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Applications are invited for the second of two new lecturer posts awarded by the UFC Review of Meteorology to the School of Environmental Sciences . |
| 11 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 12 | Aside from his Jamaican paintings , this was the year that Minton produced his London Transport poster as well as the lithograph Apple Orchard , Kent for the second of three series of artists ' prints which J. Lyons & Co. commissioned as wall decorations for their tea shops and which were also made available to the public at 15s 9d each . |
| 13 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 14 | We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’ |
| 15 | As for the second of those preconditions , whether the act done at the request of the promisor raises an implication of promised remuneration or other return is simply one of the construction of the words of the contract in the circumstances of its making . ’ |
| 16 | For the second of the TV series , About Face . |
| 17 | Now for the second of the two posters , which Guinness Today is producing with kind permission of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 18 | Financial exigency as well as domestic security dictated a peace policy , for the second of the two early wars and the suppression of the Polish rebellion inflated the national debt from 652 million paper rubles in 1828 to 823 million in 1832 . |
| 19 | and team should also enjoy support for the second of my points . |
| 20 | Macbean 's move comes as the deadline for the second of the quarterly awards draws near . |
| 21 | Thirty girls between the ages of six and ten slept , ate and did their lessons in rooms with noble proportions , blistered stucco and peeling paint ; they were each permitted the character-building company of one small pet and one pony , and slept on iron beds left behind from the mansion 's use as a hospital for the wounded of World War I. |
| 22 | Someone with a genuine concern for the wounded of World War One , the miners of South Wales , the unemployed , for , and homeless in general . |
| 23 | He maintained his strong links with the world of the deaf formed during his two years at the Institution by getting together with Matthew Burns , q.v. , and Alexander Blackwood to start Sunday services for the deaf of Edinburgh in June 1830 . |
| 24 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 25 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 26 | Our belief was that this would not only be an attraction to City workers but a major facility for the millions of visitors to the Tower of London . |
| 27 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 28 | That 's good news for the millions of men and women in Britain who like the taste of wine , spirits or beer . |
| 29 | The only clue for the millions of viewers to Julia 's ordeal as she introduced a feature on the plight of homeowners was her close cropped blonde hair . |
| 30 | The tragedy of the situation is that if the application succeeds , it will destroy the wildlife ‘ safe haven ’ he has created , as the existing lakes will be used as settling basins for the millions of gallons of water and sediment to be pumped from the proposed gravel pit . |