Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |
| 2 | If you want to know more about a rug you already own , or simply want to develop a general interest in the subject , study the design schemes ( described in Chapter IV ) , and the characteristics of rugs from the various producing countries ( Chapter V ) . |
| 3 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 4 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |
| 5 | Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan . |
| 6 | As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal . |
| 7 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 8 | Having reached the high-water mark in his claim for the nature and purpose of the birth of Jesus , Matthew goes on to cause all sorts of problems for the modern reader . |
| 9 | 'Mill 's short-passing game was certainly not suited to the conditions , whereas Chiddingfold 's long balls out of defence caused all sorts of problems for the visiting defence . |
| 10 | It has 66 courses and 75 hotels , motels and condominiums offering a wide selection of accommodation , with all sorts of deals for the visiting golfer . |
| 11 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 12 | True , in formal terms the identity of the employer has not changed , but in the organisational terms stressed by the Court in Rask and in terms of the sorts of objections to the new controllers that the employees in Katsikas had in mind , the formal answer goes very little distance to meet the substance of their points . |
| 13 | Obviously it was n't the money that made the difference : what was important was the fact that the wealth opened up all sorts of possibilities to the lucky children that simply were not available to adopted children of poorer parents . |
| 14 | We were taken home that afternoon , and during the journey back we sang all sorts of songs except the Fascist ones . |
| 15 | Criticism in the 1893 Act regarding the poor status and qualifications of teachers of the deaf led — in 1895 — to the formation of the National Association of Teachers of the Deaf . |
| 16 | National Association of Teachers of the Deaf , 1895 |
| 17 | In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. ) |
| 18 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 19 | This association of societies for the Blind and the Deaf continues to this day in the present building at Centenary House , North Street , Leeds . |
| 20 | TRADITIONAL Commonwealth growers of bananas in the Caribbean and their importers , such as Fyffes and Geest , will breathe at least a temporary sigh of relief after the European Commission finally made up its mind to extend the present quota-based system in the single market next year . |
| 21 | Development of any successful national campaign has failed , e.g. the use of ORS to prevent deaths from diarrhoea — the biggest killer of children in the developing world . |
| 22 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 23 | These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups . |
| 24 | The DHAC was a coalition of radicals from the local Republican Clubs and the left wing of the NILP ; they had organised a series of imaginative protests in Derry to draw attention to bad conditions and discrimination in housing . |
| 25 | Administration of procedures for the Offline system . |
| 26 | In this sense the neutralisation of a distinct country or region would be intended to lead to its withdrawal from the contest of interests between the Great Powers , at least in the military sphere , and would require assurances or guarantees from these powers to this effect . |
| 27 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 28 | BEFORE the concrete foundations of the stage have even had time to set , and while the great steel girders of the fly tower are still being erected , Edinburgh Festival Theatre is receiving a succession of visitors from the leading opera and dance companies in Britain . |
| 29 | Most of his other property was left to John Williamson , who worked with Furber during his later years and took over the Kensington nursery , which was maintained by a succession of gardeners until the late 1840s . |
| 30 | The dramatic succession of disposals from the TI Group , following Sir Christopher Lewinton 's appointment , has been completed and in 1991 the group 's entire £900m turnover came from continuing operations , whereas in 1987 , £394m came from continuing operations and £462m from discontinued operations . |