Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to note that the source of information , either for the extraction of n-grams or for the creation of a lexicon , requires careful consideration . |
| 2 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 3 | It is measured in the repossession of houses and in the lack of new house starts . |
| 4 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 5 | His lectures became notable and popular ; he had a command of words and of the crisp phrase . |
| 6 | They concern the rise and fall of people 's reputations , whether in the eyes of others or of the individual concerned . |
| 7 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 8 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 9 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 10 | But this is an oversimplification of the study of distributions and of the nature of exchange . |
| 11 | And superimposed on all these variations in space and time are the more erratic influences of currents and of the influx of rivers . |
| 12 | Aware that the inviolability of frontiers and of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all states in Europe within their frontiers constitutes a fundamental condition for peace , |
| 13 | The whole movie industry had become obsessed with achieving respectability by widening the mix of patrons and in the trade papers we see an almost frenetic attention to the small details of improving comfort and achieving the right publicity . |
| 14 | He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman . |
| 15 | This book will of course deal with the familiar aspects of volcanoes and with the different kinds of eruptions that take place , but in addition to this , it will cover some of the quieter , less well-known aspects , and try to explain why volcanoes exist at all , why they occur where they do , and how they fit into the history of the Earth as a whole . |
| 16 | It 's a play that looks unflinchingly not just into the mouth of lambs but into the abyss . |
| 17 | The way you decide how to exercise your class options is by reading the class syllabus , published in the college prospectus ( or undergraduate handbook ) , discussing the relative attractiveness and utility of the classes ( and their teachers ! ) with second-year students , or your adviser of studies or with the teachers themselves — or with a combination of all these . |
| 18 | " Saint Monday " was honoured across the spectrum of trades and in the mines . |
| 19 | It can be argued ( and was so argued by the Saudis ) that any over-supply had been provoked by the encouragement that the over-rapid price increase in the 1970s had given both to fuel conservation on the part of consumers and to the economics of projects to develop substitutes for oil and especially OPEC oil . |
| 20 | The care programme approach was seen to foster dependency in two ways , on the part of clients and on the part of staff . |
| 21 | The press of the Gold Coast also reflected and stimulated the activities of nationalists and of the burgeoning political parties . |
| 22 | All involved in the chain from installation to servicing , fully understand the design and function of plants and over the last decade an increasing awareness of the environment has concentrated concern for the situations in which people live , work and play . |
| 23 | The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends , and in a callous disregard for the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions . |
| 24 | On this basis , it can be suggested that the two mathematical educational subcultures existed both at the level of ideas and at the level of social relations . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it has been held that the initial approval of the company is required to the proposed scheme and that the court has no jurisdiction to sanction a scheme without that approval , which may be given either by the board of directors or by the company by an ordinary resolution in general meeting ( Re Savoy Hotel Limited [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 646 ) . |
| 26 | Proposal not supported by target company The court will not call a meeting if the proposal is not supported by the target company , either through its board of directors or by the company in general meeting ( see Re Savoy Hotel Ltd , para 2.4.5 above ) . |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia had established a trade mission in Beijing in August 1989 , but relations between the two countries had become strained following the suppression of Moslem revolts in the Chinese western autonomous region of Xinjiang Uygur in April 1990 , which resulted in 23 deaths and in restrictions on the building of mosques and in the importation of Islamic literature [ see also p. 37373 ] . |
| 28 | It is interesting to observe how frequently the French style prevails not just in the building of hotels but in the whole ‘ architecture of pleasure ’ in Britain . |
| 29 | Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals . |
| 30 | But in April it still retained an image of patriotism and integrity , attracting by this the support of financiers and of the Rothermere press . |