Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other preparations recommended for minor burns include Nelson 's Burn Ointment and Pakua , a wonderful preparation which aids healing in all sorts of injuries where the skin is damaged . |
| 2 | Officers have been combing scrubland and bracken on the outskirts of Bicester where the revolver was found , looking for other weapons , baseball bats used in the attack . |
| 3 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 4 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 5 | Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered . |
| 6 | Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle . |
| 7 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 8 | In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The Windscale cloud however , passed over most of the cities of England so the collective dose would be higher . |
| 10 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 11 | The woods of Lothlorien where the Elves dwelt was a wonderful place but now it will wither . |
| 12 | Work out the times of day when the desire for a cigarette is most likely to undermine your good intentions , and be prepared . |
| 13 | If the case raised factual issues , then the fact-oriented procedure should be allowed unless there were compelling reasons of time why the extra delay this would cause was unacceptable . |
| 14 | There are , of course , big areas of Normandy where the farmers are still producing milk , butter , cream and cheeses by the old methods . |
| 15 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 16 | The resulting public pressure led the government in 1985 to remove the right to compensation , as it applies to blocks of flats where the proposal is for an increase in the number of dwelling units ( not for an increase in height ) . |
| 17 | In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve . |
| 18 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 19 | That is a sure way to develop an adult with a strongly manipulative personality , which can arouse devastatingly negative reactions in the lives of others when the child comes of age . |
| 20 | If space A can extend beyond the excursions of B then the contact state becomes : Up to nine zone states , one being two zeros and one non-zero none being three zeros with one excursion stale . |
| 21 | Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures . |
| 22 | But it 's outside the armed forces and in the factories of Gloucestershire where the defence reductions have cut most deeply ; contractors like Dowty and Smiths industries have shed thousands of jobs . |
| 23 | Outdoors , on all kinds of surfaces where the lines can be abraded as they are dragged , in a range of temperatures and exposed to ultra-violet rays , and often made wet from dew in the grass , all the lab tests become suspect . |
| 24 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 25 | my Lord I , I suppose the answer to that is yes , it could be on the facts , it could be that if there was in a free market then they 'd be all sorts of varieties of clause whereby the name and kept the agent funds , erm maybe |
| 26 | A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice . |
| 27 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 28 | But even so , for the Jones and the Riddifords it was a terrible wrench to leave the rest of the close knit Welsh family behind and there were floods of tears when the time came to say goodbye . |
| 29 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 30 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |