Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The minute book of the Britons speaks of average attendance at meetings of between thirty and fifty members , and Special Branch officers discovered that the circulation of its newspaper The Hidden Hand was only 150 per month . |
| 2 | I note that the C E C proposes to report back in nineteen ninety four G M B Congress with an indication of what form the new union resulting from any such amalgamation might take . |
| 3 | Second , to consider in the light of their comments the substantive and statistical issues associated with such interpretations . |
| 4 | NOTE : IF A RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME FORMS PART OF YOUR COURSE THE APPROPRIATE RESIDENTIAL FEE MUST BE PAID AT THE TIME OF ENROLMENT . |
| 5 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 6 | In the course of their work the professional-managerial class develop techniques to control the working class . |
| 7 | In the preface of his book The Elizabethan World Picture , E.M.W . |
| 8 | He had stooped to kiss her cold cheek and smelt in the hollow of her neck the waxen odour of death . |
| 9 | The exhibition has brought together a well-chosen and representative selection of the art which Susan Beattie did so much to bring to critical attention with the publication of her book The New Sculpture in 1983 . |
| 10 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 11 | In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison . |
| 12 | In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it . |
| 13 | Dworkin makes it clear that as the question of what form the public hearing should assume is itself a policy question , it is , accordingly , beyond the remit of the courts to interfere with this . |
| 14 | But in general , in the event of any major failure of your equipment the obvious answer is to make a landing at an early stage . |
| 15 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 16 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 17 | Throughout the period of its existence the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory , like the Physical Chemistry Laboratory , has received a constant stream of distinguished foreign scientists on sabbatical leave . |
| 18 | Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority . |
| 19 | In spite of its name the exhaustive ballot is not a single ballot but a series of ballots . |
| 20 | At the beginning of his speech the hon. Member for Dagenham said that no one disagrees with the Government 's wish to introduce simplicity into local government , but the fact is that the Labour party profoundly disagrees with that wish . |
| 21 | ‘ I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race . ’ |
| 22 | As the price of its support the Soviet Union , in the interests of its own foreign policy , required the dismantling of revolutionary changes , conventional rather than guerrilla or ‘ revolutionary ’ war , the restoration of Republican authority and a massive enhancement of Communist power . |
| 23 | In the excerpts from those reviews that Stieglitz reprinted in the catalogue of her show the following year , he had removed any references they contained to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's essays — obviously in response to a request from O'Keeffe to do so . |
| 24 | Paul Bezuidenhout , due to be hanged on March 5 following the rejection of his appeal the previous September , was granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | I do n't have at the tip of my fingers the total level of funds managed , but |
| 26 | The double consignment of heroin had been secured , despite a surprise attack , albeit by one demented man , and Tiger Control in Chicago had taken delivery of their merchandise the previous day . |
| 27 | With the cheese Wycliffe told them of his interview with Swayne , and of Sara 's revised version of her doings the previous evening . |
| 28 | In this way the patient 's confidence grows during the course of the single session and he is able to bring to the forefront of his mind the relevant period in his life . |
| 29 | She could not hold in a corner of her mind the rational knowledge that this was purely childish . |
| 30 | From the corner of his eye the stout grey-haired man saw the thug shift his grip on the club . |