Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the river Nive , which is a good deal slimmer and perfectly limpid up here , near to its source in the watershed , flows discreetly through the middle of the town , dividing it into two quite equal parts . |
| 2 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 3 | And to get to its end point of Conwy Castle you travel right through the heart of Snowdonia taking a stunning high level route crossing peaks like Rhinog Fach , Rhinog Fawr , Glyder Fawr and Snowdon itself . |
| 4 | If Stirling had not been captured when he was , he would hardly have survived his planned raid on Sousse , having to approach his target right through the middle of the remnants of the Axis armies who were caught in an ever-diminishing pocket . |
| 5 | Basically you 've got two miniature coils mounted side-by-side , with the bar magnets running right through the middle of the coils , the same way as the original Firebird pickup . |
| 6 | The frontier of the Agenais ran right through the middle of the town . |
| 7 | Planners are not skiers ( unfortunately ) and they do n't seem able to read a map either because some of the lines defining their concentric rings go right through the middle of existing ski areas , particularly at Glenshee . |
| 8 | This venture was short-lived , as the Regent 's canal was cut right through the middle of the pitch . |
| 9 | Right through the middle of the head , head , head . |
| 10 | In order to cut costs elsewhere the company want to build the line right through the middle of the town and across much of the farmland which the children have established ( in role ) as belonging to them . |
| 11 | The Ramblers say this exclusive course in the making called ’ The Oxfordshire Golf Club , ’ has spoiled several paths , including one which runs right through the middle of the clubhouse . |
| 12 | All of which meant that there was a hole right through the middle of the Scottish defence . |
| 13 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 14 | The failure of more talks , in London in December , on a German peace treaty meant that the line of division between the two blocs ran right through the centre of the defeated enemy of 1945 . |
| 15 | I mean they they would go right through the process of buying something on credit , and it would be fine until it got to , Erm where do you live . |
| 16 | Like very many other people , and this theme runs right through the length of European intellectual life , Russell was , he was delighted with mathematics when he first encountered it , erm immensely impressed by the certainty of its propositions , as so many other people had been , erm troubled a bit by the logical inadequacy of much of the mathematics that he was presented with , especially at Cambridge , and investing mathematics with a kind of Platonic aura . |
| 17 | ‘ The place in this country by far most worth the attention of the curious traveller , it can not be viewed without the most exquisite enjoyment ’ ( Arthur Young 1770 ) |
| 18 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 19 | Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children . |
| 20 | Following the recent and much-lamented demolition of the Firestone Factory by Trafalgar House , we pressed successfully for the listing of the School of Music . |
| 21 | She ran successfully for the Vice-Presidentship of the Student Union . |
| 22 | Agreement had been secured locally for the deployment of 500 armed UN peacekeeping troops in the capital , Mogadishu , and on Aug. 28 the UN had approved the deployment of an additional 3,000 troops . |
| 23 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 24 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 25 | The design of the area will depend upon whether you have a practical room available ( dissection , if you are including this , will require hand washing facilities ) , a reading area and somewhere for the provision of supplementary reading , and whether the library can be used . |
| 26 | Thus , within the discipline of literature , there must be a place not only for poetry , but also for nineteenth-century German poetry , and a place somewhere for the use of fibre optics in cable television . |
| 27 | He spoke powerfully about the insecurity of football and the potential dangers behind every challenge . |
| 28 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |
| 29 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 30 | The thermometer watch can measure either air or water temperature — presumably for the benefit of winter swimmers . |