Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun] [is] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An authoritative article in Pravda entitled ‘ The defence of socialism is the highest international duty ’ set out what later became known as the ‘ Brezhnev doctrine ’ : this insisted that the interests of the communist countries as a whole took priority over the wishes of any individual communist country and that no defection from the communist camp could be permitted . |
| 2 | The submissions for the defendants included the following : ( i ) a local authority , such as the council , is controlled by elected councillors and the ability to control such a council by the vote of the majority of councillors is the objective of political activity . |
| 3 | Why the change of direction is the most important and difficult move in golf to come to terms with goes much further than many golfers seem to realise . |
| 4 | Another element in the break-up of libraries is the advent of computers . |
| 5 | If the heroism of Roland is the obverse of a coin , the reverse is the doctrine of holy war as it impinged on the cruder minds of thousands of contemporaries . |
| 6 | Then then then the winner of course is the one that takes the money . |
| 7 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer , the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for non-delivery. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the seller 's breach of contract . |
| 9 | Thus the measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the market price on the date for actual performance . |
| 10 | The measure of conservation is the amount of energy required to produce a single unit of economic growth . |
| 11 | But if the measure of fertility is the number of young that are produced in a season , then the record is held by Microtus , a tiny meadow mouse from North America . |
| 12 | The heart of Saphery is the Tower of Hoeth , the shrine of the God of Wisdom . |
| 13 | At the heart of neo-Fordism is the development of flexible specialization to replace the rigid assembly-line system of production . |
| 14 | The heart of Liberalism is the understanding that progress is not a matter of mechanical contrivance , but of the liberation of living spiritual energy . |
| 15 | A familiar example of interference in the case of light is the colors that are often seen in soap bubbles . |
| 16 | The most important policy in the field of employment is the Job Release Scheme , introduced in 1977 as a temporary measure for men aged 64 and women aged 59 and extended in 1981 and 1982 to cover disabled men aged 60–63 and other men aged 62 and 63 . |
| 17 | A good example from the field of librarianship is the Library Association 's series British librarianship and information work , of which the last edition covered the years 1981–5 . |
| 18 | A very important factor in the teaching of tennis is the value of practice once the lesson is over . |
| 19 | One of the issues that faces teachers wanting to use drama in the teaching of history is the thorny problem of facts and authenticity . |
| 20 | The strongly held belief that the teaching of reading is the sole prerogative of the professional ( together with a tenacious preservation of its mystiques ) has been accepted for years . |
| 21 | At present the crossing of roads is the ma–or safety problem , one which can be tackled in a variety of ways . |
| 22 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 23 | At the foot of l'Alpe-d'Huez is the little Alpine town of le Bourg d'Oisans , the beginning of the 15th stage . |
| 24 | The contrary arguments are these : ( a ) If the crux of theft is the dishonest appropriation of another 's property , the intention permanently to deprive seems otiose . |
| 25 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 26 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 27 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the charity that takes action to protect wild birds and the environment . |
| 28 | The function of adjudication is the determination of the rights and duties of the parties presenting their dispute to the tribunal . |
| 29 | The presence of carbon is the most interesting aspect of the carbonaceous chondrites , because life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry . |
| 30 | Labour history Within the University of Hull is the Brynmor Jones library , which specialises in labour and socialist history . |