Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned .
2 There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him .
3 Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary .
4 In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges .
5 Great numbers of labouring poor were more characteristic of regions where the soil was chalk-based .
6 At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide .
7 Strong interventionist states with powerful centralized bureaucracies and institutions of state coercion , for example , may be contrasted with those of countries where the interests of civil society are stronger and state institutions are moulded to its purpose .
8 The examples given in Parliament i of areas where the Minister would feel free to intervene — the military implications of power station siting , research policy and the development of rural supplies — were to be only a small part of ministerial initiatives in the evolving relationship between the alternative centres of decision making power enshrined in the Act .
9 Millions of Iranians perhaps the majority , it is hard to tell — saw the Shah as did Ayatollah Khomeini ; he was an agent of the Great Satan , as Khomeini called the United States .
10 The principle of ‘ rolling readjustment ’ is simply one of adjustment whereby the actual amount spent by an authority is checked a number of times in the course of the year against the claim made by the authority and its funding amended accordingly .
11 If it is one of tantrums then the chart should go where the action usually happens — in living room or kitchen , for example .
12 Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is !
13 Mrs Hollidaye was incapable of understanding how the thought of having to leave tomorrow hung on Dot 's shoulders like a heavy woollen cloak of despair .
14 This can happen in the closest of relationships when the parent is wanting to be caring and kind but realizes that some limits need to be set .
15 But so far many thousands of man-hours later the killer who left 44-year-old Mrs Heron in a pool of blood on her living room floor has remained at large .
16 The Revenue seem to have an option to apply Cases III , IV and V or Case VI but the author is aware of cases where the Revenue have permitted the preceding year basis to apply under Cases III , IV and V although the Revenue could have assessed under Case VI .
17 ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick .
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