Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mumming play , of which the pace-egg play is an Easter version , was performed originally at Christmas and I will be discussing survivals of this type of play later in the book . |
| 2 | With increased availability , pricing has dropped to a street price of $999 apiece for the 36MHz and $1,399 apiece for the 40MHz in quantities of 1,000 — quite different from the $1,900 price it gave The Microprocessor Report for the 40MHz back in December ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 3 | Waltz insists on explaining the behaviour of states solely at the level of the international system . |
| 4 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 5 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the numerous examples of the rise and fall of parties over the past century , there are many instances of change even in the relatively short period of time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 7 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |
| 8 | At the same time , ICI is actively engaged in the recovery and recycling of products already in the market . |
| 9 | The electrochemical technology business will be expanded by further small acquisitions , or joint ventures , Hunt says , and by the bringing to market of products already in the ICI development chain . |
| 10 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 11 | Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree 's slow progress to maturity . |
| 12 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 13 | The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm . |
| 14 | By yesterday evening the largest lender , the Halifax , which held out a glimmer of hope earlier in the day that it could stick with its 13.5 per cent rate , acknowleged a rise was inevitable . |
| 15 | Alchian and Demsetz characterise the firm as involving a team use of inputs together with the occupancy of a central position by a party whose function is to monitor the outputs of the team members and the other factors of production employed in the firm . |
| 16 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 17 | On Jan. 27 the Chilean Supreme Court agreed to submit questions on the Letelier case to US President Bush ( head of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) at the time of the killings ) , following allegations by Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , the former head and chief of operations respectively of the DINA secret police during the 1973-90 Pinochet regime , that the Letelier attack had been carried out by CIA agents infiltrated into the DINA , in order to discredit the Pinochet regime . |
| 18 | Half a million different laws ( although no one knows for certain how many ) have insured that the legal system is rigged , keeping the cost of formality far beyond the reach of the average small Peruvain entrepreneur . |
| 19 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 20 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 21 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 22 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 23 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 24 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 25 | Remember when the US Interstate Highway system , designed to get people out of cities fast in the event of an emergency , failed its first and only test during the anti-Vietnam riots in Washington in 1968 ? |
| 26 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 27 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 28 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 30 | ‘ People who buy these pale impressions of literature instead of the real thing are bound to be disappointed sooner or later . ’ |