Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we have considered man-made materials where the composition reflects the processing , but the composition of materials such as stones and gems , which were used without chemical modification , can also sometimes indicate their source , and thereby the authenticity of artefacts made from them . |
| 2 | Costs and revenues are traced to these centres and compared with planned costs and revenues : thereby the performance of managers and their centres can be measured . |
| 3 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 4 | The London we have now is predominantly the work of developers . |
| 5 | It also seems that the work of the Court of Appeal is predominantly the determination of appeals involving review . |
| 6 | It is not necessary , however , to see this change as predominantly the result of changes in the organisation of their manufacture . |
| 7 | Keeping away fro the area of technicalities on migration . |
| 8 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 9 | The formal investigation , in which the CRE has the power to interview staff and examine confidential files , is into possibly unlawful failures by the region to assess properly the intelligence of children who speak English poorly and are judged to have learning difficulties . |
| 10 | The formal investigation is into possibly unlawful failures by the region to assess properly the intelligence of children who speak English poorly and are judged to have learning difficulties . |
| 11 | If proofs there are in this book they are only that Marxism is now quite properly the preserve of cranks and dreamers . |
| 12 | We have not described properly the impact of refugees from Bosnia who have already arrived in the United Kingdom — local councils for Birmingham and Norwich are having difficulty in finding money to house them . |
| 13 | From that time onward the flow of migrants from the West Indies to Britain has declined steadily : recently there seems to have been a net outflow . |
| 14 | But Tyrion could not be everywhere at once and slowly the weight of numbers turned the battle against the High Elves . |
| 15 | Slowly the line of cars inched towards the Customs sheds . |
| 16 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 17 | Eventually the number of tones used in this course is five : fall , rise , fall-rise , rise-fall and level . |
| 18 | The stories came out one by one until eventually the diversion of funds to the Contras became known . |
| 19 | Parsley was used for the liver problem and to help clear the system of toxins ( causing the yellow colour and a fading of the normal colour ) , mint to encourage appetite , fennel to clear any toxins in the digestive tract , elderflower to calm the fish down and garlic as an antibiotic in case the fish suffered a secondary infection due to its weakened state . |
| 20 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 21 | Paradoxically the choice of subjects only goes to prove that most new jobs in British engineering are paid for by defence contracts . |
| 22 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 23 | They are not there apart from an observer , they are rather the tendency of objects to produce certain sensations in one . |
| 24 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 25 | Total consumption is not the relevant part of this equation ; rather the consumption of producers is the key variable . |
| 26 | This phenomenon is related to the last , but concerns not the translation of procedures from programs/software to machines/hardware , but rather the translation of procedures from one level of programming language to another . |
| 27 | Not the lofty creation of some Turin styling studio , but rather the realisation of men with rather higher ideals . |
| 28 | We may consider rather the analogy of carpets being brought periodically into a shop for display and rolled out one by one on a pile . |
| 29 | Now we have GCSE , which devolves somewhat the choice of topics and the manner and timing of assessment to individual schools , and shifts the balance of that assessment from the retention of content to the mastery of certain identifiable skills — though in practice how extensive a shift this has been remains open to question . |
| 30 | The new name reflects more accurately the scope of the specialty , de fines better the range of problems dealt with , and , most importantly , removes what was felt by many people to be an automatic stigma acquired by visiting the VD clinic . |