Example sentences of "[vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so . |
| 2 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 3 | Fears grow of where the Serbs may turn next , if they are permitted the ultimate triumph from which none is willing to deflect them . |
| 4 | Fears grow of famine in Sudan |
| 5 | Charlemagne had begun with the clergy , encouraging them to learn and write correct Latin for the liturgy ; two generations later , the lay elite in Charles 's kingdom used writing in several different forms , from books of private prayer to family archives , while many laypeople of lesser rank wanted documents as evidence of their own property claims and legal status . |
| 6 | She felt a plummet of misery . |
| 7 | Ronni felt a swooping , irrational plummet of disappointment . |
| 8 | And I shall find you empty of that fault , |
| 9 | But all that business is not simply going to vanish : ICL will be refilling the channels with its own personal computers and DRS 6000 and DSR 3000 Unix machines before they even empty of third party machines — and by using a captive distribution network , ICL should be able to improve overall profitability . |
| 10 | Bryan Robson , who steered England 's soccer team to the World Cup Finals , receives the OBE , Linford Christie , the Olympic silver medal winner and spearhead of the British team which won the European Cup and placed third in the World Cup , is awarded the MBE , as does Ellery Hanley , leader of the Great Britain rugby league side . |
| 11 | In the Latin American context , Johnson took the lead in proposing the middle class as the spearhead of change , by detailing the areas in which he considered they had influenced government in a progressive way in five major republics ( Johnson 1958 ) . |
| 12 | In Iran , the regime that replaced the Shah appears as militantly Islamic ( and , in theory , internationalist , for Shi-ism acknowledges no secular boundaries ) , and yet is more easily seen as the spearhead of Iranian nationalism . |
| 13 | Thus , national liberation today is usually defensive , resisting the domestic effects of greater integration in , or competition with , a world order , rather than itself being the spearhead of ‘ modernization ’ . |
| 14 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
| 15 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | There it is made clear that Urban Development Corporations , the spearhead of the development thrust , ‘ are the most important attack ever made on urban decay ’ ( ibid . |
| 17 | Building for fun Eurodisney is the spearhead of a movement that aims to turn architecture into a branch of show-business . |
| 18 | They are the spearhead of the Imperial army , capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances . |
| 19 | The party has been the spearhead of what is essentially a protest movement against more than 40 years of mostly uninterrupted Congress domination of Indian politics . |
| 20 | The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating , in which their major competitors were the gas boards . |
| 21 | One school had been a major spearhead of RBL in the county for many years and had invested considerable thought , enterprise and resources in library provision and study skills . |
| 22 | They became the spearhead of political disaffection which was usually manifested in , the form of strikes . |
| 23 | And apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody news of the rest of the European football tonight and we have the double attacking spearhead of Colin Fray and Martin Fisher at the City ground and you listening to the classiest football cover on Radio Nottingham from five past seven . |
| 24 | It was the spearhead of the contest between King Henry II and his archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Becket . |
| 25 | We of the Left must work to make our Party the spearhead of struggle against Fascism , against War and against the National Government " . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING his triumphant rookie win in his Indycar debut at Surfers Paradise in Australia , Nigel Mansell will now be the spearhead of a campaign to help his new formula displace Formula One as the world 's most popular motorsport . |
| 27 | If an agent is interested in you he may well have useful comments on the photo you send of yourself , on your style and how you present yourself . |
| 28 | For a taster of what 's available send of the Vernon Geranium catalogue ( cost £1 ) . |
| 29 | To the nearest post-box go , send of your entries … do n't be low ! |
| 30 | Not entirely sure she wanted to be the object of someone 's amusement , or a reliever of boredom , she gave him back stare for stare . |