Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] of [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clinical literature , then , suggests that in the execution of certain types of movement or sequences of movement the left hemisphere is implicated to a greater extent than the right hemisphere . |
| 2 | There can be no hard-and-fast rules about how to elicit from a table or group of tables the main points of interest ; it is possible to offer only some general guidelines . |
| 3 | He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family , and correspondent of Gregory the Great . |
| 4 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 5 | People in Edinburgh sold horrible stories and pictures of Bothwell the same day that Darnley died . |
| 6 | In the death and resurrection of Jesus the two gardens of Eden and eternal life are joined . |
| 7 | He sees surveillance as the ‘ mobilising of administrative power ’ with the storage and control of information the key way in which such mobilisation takes place . |
| 8 | As the guardians and voice of nature the green pressure groups are more effective than any political party . |
| 9 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
| 10 | Limitation : as there were limits to the types and amounts of help the different categories of helpers were expected to provide . |
| 11 | As centres of culture the decadent universities played little part in national life and the inquiries of a government reform in the 1770's reveal an abysmal indifference to learning . |