Example sentences of "[noun] of the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I am anxious that you should understand the customs and manners of the country where the events in question took place , so different from your own . |
| 2 | It has already been suggested that the drafter 's primary objective is to transfer , so far as possible , the risks of the contract away from his/her client and onto the other party to the contract . |
| 3 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 4 | In fact the tactics of the provos today are the same as those used in the 1940's by the Zionists . |
| 5 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 6 | Here we are concerned with essential characteristics of the goods so that , for example , in a hire purchase case Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 , a car was defined as being a vehicle capable of moving under its own power . |
| 7 | They do not however use this data to temper their judgements , with the result that a school may be praised because of the intake characteristics of the pupils rather than because of anything it has done . |
| 8 | The research will address particularly two issues in Metropolitan health and welfare planning : To what extent are socially disadvantaged individuals concentrated in relatively deprived geographic areas ? and how are individuals self reported morbidity and health service use related to the social characteristics of the neighbourhoods where the survey respondents live ? |
| 9 | Both these churches illustrate the Asturian characteristics of the round-headed rather than the horseshoe arch construction ( the Carolingian influence is evident ) , and Roman type decoration and capitals , though the Visigothic cable pattern is also used . |
| 10 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 11 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
| 12 | Is there anything else that you learned thinking of the exercise now listening when you put the shoe on the other foot and you have to stick to . |
| 13 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 14 | The wind rose again , and again he tried to combine safety with dignity , thinking of the watchers below . |
| 15 | ( I sometimes wonder whether there is not an element of satire addressed by Shakespeare against the persona of the poet here , who can argue with such single-mindedness a case that seems the height of egoism in its intention to exploit the other — a woman — merely in order to reproduce itself . ) |
| 16 | Theda stood her ground , aware of Taggy hovering on the stairs behind her , the listening ears of the maids above , and Adam Diggory 's unseen shadow at the back of the hall . |
| 17 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 18 | He was named Postie of the Year yesterday , winning a £1,000 travel voucher in a competition organised by BBC Radio Two and the Royal Mail . |
| 19 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 20 | Each lively episode of the Streets Ahead soap , covering a double-page spread , presents natural language in an authentic context . |
| 21 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 22 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 23 | The demand for Greek work in the early centuries of the Empire far exceeded the supply , and a busy industry arose in the production of marble copies ( few could afford bronze ) after popular bronze ( and rarer marble ) types . |
| 24 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 25 | You may find new perception of the world around . |
| 26 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | He obviously had to get him up f erm sort of rolled him over er one way then the other to be of but the er the legs of the jeans on . |
| 28 | The sexual ineptitude of the voyeur usually renders him harmless . |
| 29 | the experts too are fans of the boat already … |
| 30 | Later came the ‘ Carry On ’ films , launched by Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ) , films as defiantly un-Ealing as one could conceive , with their emphasis on the inability of institutions ( army , hospital , school , etc. ) to contain the animal natures and the sheer potential for vulgarity of the humans within . |