Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autoworld at the Patrick Collection — A dazzling collection featuring the cars of yesterday plus the supercars of today . |
| 2 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 3 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 4 | The three-year language programme preparing the young teenagers of today for the challenge of tomorrow |
| 5 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 6 | I was kind of like in the middle |
| 7 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 8 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 9 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 10 | Yes , but you 're a two though , I thought this to erm , sort of even up the the work between the three teams |
| 11 | So we 're er we 're sort of well down the list as far as that 's concerned . |
| 12 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
| 13 | And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't . |
| 14 | Then he came in er sort of right at the end said , well look , I 'm so cheesed off with you lot |
| 15 | I mean you 're you 're not sort of right in the centre of town , but |
| 16 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
| 17 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 18 | Well you could have gone sort of like round the Rainbow and that way on . |
| 19 | No and you see it 's just them two I think they could put him sort of like in the hall and if there 's a |
| 20 | I have n't seen any primroses sort of like in the hedges yet |
| 21 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 22 | The first order condition ( 16 ) representing the WD curve is affected by the altered distribution of only through the median member 's ‘ reputation-commitment ’ term , . |
| 23 | The strains of Somewhere Over The Rainbow filtered through as they left perhaps someday their dreams will come true . |
| 24 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 25 | Hume described Berkeley 's attack on abstract ideas as ‘ the most important development of late in the republic of letters ’ . |
| 26 | Although it is difficult to compare the publications of today with the comics of the 1950s , it must be pointed out that there is a surprising amount of science in today 's comics . |
| 27 | And it all meant another marvellous morning of wonderfully over the top tabloid headlines . |
| 28 | Even Richard Branson had to take his Virgin group private with Japanese backing to prosper , while Anita Roddick 's Body Shop , riding the environmental bandwagon , has taken a hammering of late in the stock market . |
| 29 | Psychometric tests which attempt to measure students ' ability to use the library have been developed and made use of primarily in the USA . |
| 30 | It reveals that man is essentially cast in the mode of being-in-the-world , and moreover that the world itself can be made sense of only in the context of man 's own " projects " . |