Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |
| 2 | Jogging is not a particularly good form of exercise ( especially on city pavements ) ; all that pounding can put a great deal of strain on the lower back and can damage the knees . |
| 3 | These changes in perception of distension at the lower end of the gut seem to be mirrored in the stomach . |
| 4 | Inside , the building is well lit by the ring of windows in the later , central , octagonal lantern . |
| 5 | He will know that there is a temptation in that lesser assembly to emulate the topics and methods of procedure of the greater assembly of which he and I are Members . |
| 6 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 7 | The curve is graduated exactly in proportion to the increasing loss of weight of the lower tank as it enters the water , so that the effective weight loss of the upper tank at the end of its run exactly matches that of the lower one . |
| 8 | The pattern of population redistribution around the country 's metropolitan regions is best seen as an evolving one ( Champion , 1983 ) , though the broad picture is one of absolute loss of population from the older urban cores in favour of the newer suburbs and ( increasingly ) the surrounding towns . |
| 9 | Data for Greater London 's outflows to the rest of Britain , for instance , reveal the even more important role of the owner-occupied sector in 1981 compared to 1971 and also show that in 1981 there was virtually no net migration loss of people in the lower-paid occupations in both manual and non-manual groups ( table 8.5 ) . |
| 10 | The influence of the ‘ Annales ’ school of historical writing has been largely to place the study of war in the wider social , economic , and cultural background of the societies in which it was fought , to make war part of ‘ total ’ history . |
| 11 | Among women working full-time in the better paid jobs , there is a concentration of women in the lower grades of their particular type of employment . |
| 12 | For example , the concentration of crime in the lower social class , which was the starting point for all the main sociological theories , could be explained simply by the fact that members of the lower social class were more likely to be selected for labelling . |
| 13 | But initial studies show there are higher concentrations of birds on the higher areas of the mudflats . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , the need to praetorianize part of the army under the command of the head of the Sirte garrison suggests a divergence of interests between the higher military leadership and the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 15 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 16 | Aylesbury 's footballers have progressed to the second round of the FA Cup — and an away tie at Northampton Town — without a flutter of recognition from the whiter-than-white duck which provides their nickname . |
| 17 | Aylesbury 's footballers have progressed to the second round of the FA Cup — and an away tie at Northampton Town — without a flutter of recognition from the whiter-than-white duck which provides their nickname . |
| 18 | But its prevalence has led us to misconceive both the significance and practice of transgression in the earlier modern period , and also in some of our own contemporary subcultures . |
| 19 | Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish . |
| 20 | There are several aspects of life in the older family to disentangle , in order to begin to understand the family system , and the family network of any elderly person or couple referred for social work help . |
| 21 | The examination schedule drawn up at the beginning of the test may need to be modified in the light of findings in the earlier stages of the test . |
| 22 | With rapid depletion of fertility in the Tidewater land many settlers moved onto the Piedmont where they mostly repeated their mistakes . |
| 23 | He recommended to them lists of books for the better understanding of their religion , and the advice was excellent . |
| 24 | Will he do all he can , through the Construction Industry Training Board , to ensure that an adequate supply of skill is available to meet the demands of recovery in the longer term ? |
| 25 | Now the other question I was just going to ask was on appendix er erm it 's oh yes here we are appendix five bottom of page two and it 's talking about the condition of people on the higher rates to residential homes in the area . |
| 26 | From what I can recall of his earlier set for EMI ( 12/85 ) , these more recent 1991 recordings ( made in Hanover 's Beethovensaal ) certainly demonstrate a recognition of discretion as the better part of valour . |
| 27 | That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin . |
| 28 | The level of penetration of IT applications in educational practice and the level of familiarity with IT amongst teachers will have a bearing on the uptake of IT in the wider context of post-school experience . |
| 29 | Mr Maude : I am not sure that I regard the nation states of Europe as the lower orders . |
| 30 | It excluded Muslims ; ‘ one can not permit the admission of Muslims into the higher organs of the regional revolutionary authority ’ , the Soviet resolved , ‘ because the attitude of the local population towards the Soviet of Soldiers , Workers and Peasants is quite uncertain , and because the native population lacks proletarian organizations ’ . |