Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] and [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice is varied and students may take advantage of tuition in many sports or alternatively may organize their own programme of activities and book the various sports facilities at times which suit their academic timetables . |
| 2 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 3 | In family-tree terminology , k is the most recent common ancestor of I and J. The path from J to I is then constructed by combining the paths from J to k and k to 1 . |
| 4 | In the interval between night and day , when it appears all colour may have been leached from the world in the blood wedding of sea and sky the night before , the men in Tiguary 's warrior band crept softly towards the English compound , some picking their way in the sulphurous stream , others moving in single file along the banks . |
| 5 | Published in 1977 , by the Department of Education and Science the document suggested that the work of schools needed to be analysed in a ‘ quantitative ’ form as well as in the ‘ subjective and qualitative ’ way in which it had been measured hitherto . |
| 6 | Over at the Department of Trade and Industry the news that Francesca would not be back before Thursday morning was being received with open dismay . |
| 7 | We note the direction of travel and radio the information back to base . |
| 8 | As with so many of these police powers which impinge on the rights of protesters to freedom of speech and assembly the high quality of police understanding and reasonableness is crucial to success . |
| 9 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 10 | Cleared out all the chest of drawers and wardrobe the other day did n't we ? |
| 11 | The wide variety of devices and techniques the authors discuss include a substantial introductory account of lasers and a presentation of fibre optics and their application to optical communication systems . |
| 12 | In the case of franchises and licences the business is not transferred by the vendor and the vendor will normally have to arrange for a new licence or franchise to be granted to the purchaser by the licensor or franchisor on the surrender of the vendor 's licence or franchise . |
| 13 | Morgan illustrates the first type of case and Tolson the other ; ( David Raymond ) Smith shows one type of approach in play , Phekoo the other . |
| 14 | The relation derived is where is the degree of crystallinity and p the probability that a chain within the crystalline phase will traverse the disordered region to enter an adjacent lamella . |
| 15 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 16 | Following on from the exhibition of Italian drawings 1780–1890 seen in Washington , Minneapolis and San Francisco in 1980 and 1981 , the same team of organisers and curator The American Federation of Arts and Roberta Olsen respectively have mounted an ambitious sequel , ‘ Ottocento : Romanticism and Revolution in nineteenth-century Italian paintings ’ . |
| 17 | For the sake of continuity and comparison the authors intend to repeat almost all the established features of previous volumes . |
| 18 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 19 | An important ecclesiastical recruit was Louis , a bastard grandson of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious 's archchancellor since 835 , who had transferred his post and his loyalty to Charles without hesitation in June 840 . |
| 20 | Thirdly , there is a theme of evaluation and cost-effectiveness The move to the community or the changing emphasis on community services should be evaluated . |
| 21 | In the third version , the whole text is replaced by dashes ; by a process of trial and error the text has to be reconstructed . |
| 22 | In a guestroom or in a group of friends and kinsmen the characteristic devices of discussion were the pithy interjection and the rhetorical question . |
| 23 | A confident graduation ceremony at which the Chairman of Governors spoke optimistically took place in February 1979 , and at its meeting in May 1979 the Council received a report of a preliminary visit by a small group of members and officers the previous month to the Polytechnic . |
| 24 | A x B is called the Cartesian product of A and B. The word " ordered " implies that elements ( a , b ) , ( c , d ) in A x B are defined to be equal when and only when both a = c and b = d . |
| 25 | At the junction of muscle and epidermis the cells show regular interdigitation , the processes being lined with desmosomes . |
| 26 | Many old Korean philosophers were inspired by the Confucian concept of Yin and Yang the belief there was always balance and harmony , he said . |
| 27 | The fact that we have bombed Iraq , a rather small Third World country , back into the 19th century or even earlier ; the likelihood of continuing violence in the Middle East ; the probable Lebanisation of Iraq and Kuwait the increasing difficulty in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem ; the increased threat of terrorism ; the erosion of democracy — all these issues will stimulate opposition to a long-term North-South confrontation . |
| 28 | That lessens the chance of profitability and alarms the banks that have insisted on these sales . |
| 29 | James himself seems to have felt an aesthetic reason for these propensities , for he is reported to have said : " Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt . |
| 30 | ( UTV , 7pm ) including : from the USA — ‘ Bag Shag ’ the best way to retrieve your balls after a hard round of golf and Athos the Upside Down Man who supports his entire body weight on one rigid digit . |