Example sentences of "[det] [noun] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 2 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 3 | She gave that piece of gallantry the scorn it deserved . |
| 4 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 5 | In this kind of novel the act of narration is modelled on a speech act in which one person tells a story to another . |
| 6 | It is that if governments did not do this kind of thing the probability of their interfering in the workings of the market economy would a that much greater . |
| 7 | On this kind of scenario the bill for damages potentially runs into millions of pounds . |
| 8 | In this kind of analysis the firm is often represented as a family in which respect for male elders is expressed by using seniority as the least disruptive and most predictable basis for internal promotion . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , under this kind of control the UDCs have tended to pursue market-orientated strategies within their designated areas ( Ward , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | In this kind of office the variety of requests for service is probably such that it would be necessary to provide a set of categories of the main kinds of activities or functions . |
| 11 | For a more complete account of this field of work the reader is referred to Ellis and Grieger ( 1977 ) , Dryden ( 1984 ) . |
| 12 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 13 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 14 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 15 | At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ? |
| 16 | At this level of production the program is useful only to its creator and can not be disseminated further . |
| 17 | But in this part of Sardinia the local tongue is a version of Catalan . |
| 18 | Therefore the police generally require to see the certificate to satisfy themselves that the motor vehicle is correctly insured but in some cases of doubt the policy may have to be examined or enquiries made of the issuing firm . |
| 19 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 20 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 21 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 22 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 23 | Ryn station was one of his favourite haunts , or rather its approaches , ‘ the cinder path with the poplars … then the ditch full of duckweed , then the brown-grey soil of spaded potato fields , or plots planted with greenish purple-red cabbage … behind this stretch of ground the red-rusted or black rails in yellow sand ; here and there stacks of old timber — heaps of coal — discarded railway carriages . ’ |
| 24 | On the other hand , a critic who represents object texts in a mode akin to free indirect speech operates under an obligation to represent with some degree of fidelity the texts that he or she purports to ventriloquise . |
| 25 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 26 | Furthermore , because of this distrust of abstraction the conservative ‘ neither understands those spontaneous forces on which a policy of freedom relies nor possesses a basis for formulating principles of policy ’ . |
| 27 | For some directions of emission the negative energy photon will cross the horizon . |
| 28 | Manning calls this conceptualization of work the ‘ threat-dangerhero ’ syndrome ( 1977 : 302 ) , which he believes is widespread amongst those who discharge ‘ Anglo-American policing ’ , while Reiner refers to it as ‘ old-fashioned machismo ’ , which he argues is widespread within the occupational culture of the police ( 1985 : 99-100 ) . |
| 29 | In this type of work the researcher 's personality inevitably bulks large and has to be taken into account in the evaluation of his reports ( a critical task which colleagues assume with un-becoming zeal ) . |
| 30 | In Smith [ 1979 ] Crim LR 251 the judge seems to have directed the jury that in this type of manslaughter the accused had to foresee a real risk to his wife 's health , and Sheppard [ 1981 ] AC 394 confirmed that this was so . |