Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] of [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were indeed too enthusiastic , for the demands of several burgh councils could prove too much for the resources of even the best-endowed East India Company director . |
| 2 | South Armagh , once known as bandit country , is notorious for the operations of arguably the most effective and committed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army . |
| 3 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 4 | East Lindsey has a very healthy distribution of nature reserves and conservation areas , meticulously maintained for the benefit of both the indigenous wildlife and the visiting general public . |
| 5 | The outcome of the review was very much in favour , not only of retaining the department , but also of increasing and improving existing services for the benefit of both the Council and the Governing Bodies of Sport . |
| 6 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 7 | During the coming year the Press will be installing a text handling system for the use of both the Publisher 's editorial and the Printer 's composition staff . |
| 8 | The distinction between these two ways of conceiving permission accounts for the use of either the bare or the to infinitive here . |
| 9 | In fact , there was considerable debate in official circles during the time of both the Labour administration of 1945–51 and the subsequent Conservative administration about the consequences of black immigration on the ‘ racial character ’ of the British , and several covert and sometimes illegal administrative measures were put into operation to discourage black immigration ( Carter , Harris and Joshi , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | As the evaluation of both the Major and Minor Projects shows , teachers in project schools did argue with force that the use made of the library by both teachers and pupils had increased in volume and changed in kind . |
| 11 | Moreover , the Leicester mosaics themselves can hardly be construed as the work of exactly the same group of craftsmen , because the St. Nicholas Street mosaic appears to include work of a standard below that of any in the Blackfriars mosaic ( see section 4.4 ) . |
| 12 | Under the Treaty of Rome its powers were defined as the supervision of both the Commission and the Council of Ministers , including the right to put questions to the Commission and to discuss the latter 's annual report , to discharge the annual budget , and to censure the Commission . |
| 13 | It has been argued that they derived their name from that of Kenchester , which is identified as the Magnis of both the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna list , suggesting some tradition of local continuity , but there remain serious problems with this suggested derivation . |
| 14 | This , sadly , is also only partially true as the resolution of even the very best screen available today is around 150 dots per inch while , as we will see , the current generation of page printers produce 300 , 400 or even 600 dots per inch . |
| 15 | It has always been a source of amazement to me that anglers who are prepared to pay upwards of £100 for a rod and reel moan plaintively about the price of perhaps the most important item of tackle : the hook . |
| 16 | No question , though , about the pick of probably the largest and choicest crop of books in the game 's history . |
| 17 | In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ . |
| 18 | In this discussion it has been hard to draw the line between issues that are essentially ‘ characteristics of policy ’ that affect implementation , and points that are really observations about the characteristics of either the relationships between central policy makers and local implementers , or of the organization of the implementing agencies . |
| 19 | So it 's twenty miles an hour times the number of So the distance which is in miles is equal to twenty miles an hour times hours . |
| 20 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 21 | These quirks of fate , combined with Jane Brown 's own enthusiasms ( she is the author of a fine book on the Lutyens-Jekyll partnership ) have resulted in a narrative in which the gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement , a relatively short period between 1890-1914 , get twice the space of the gardens of either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | One advantage of the correction of twice the number of degrees off track , is that it produces the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle . |
| 23 | It was not the only banquet taking place in Kinsai , but it was clearly the one at which the nobility of the Khanate of even the lowest degree had thought it was incumbent upon them to be seen . |
| 24 | Thus the Centre has a dual role involving the understanding of the needs of both the academic and the non-academic communities which is particularly challenging . |
| 25 | Many important and beautiful works of art were undoubtedly lost as a result of the image-breaking of both the Reformation and civil war , and succeeding generations have rightly regretted the serious cultural impoverishment which has resulted . |
| 26 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 27 | A reader is free to interpret the actions and the motivations of the characters of even the most traditional novel in a variety of ways . |
| 28 | The only real differences are the new position of the logos of both the club and the manufacturer , plus the stripes on the sleeve . |
| 29 | Analysis of the exceptions in Taskopruzade/Mecdi is difficult on two grounds , first that one can not , in the period covered by them , be absolutely sure of the status of either the medreses or the kadiliks involved , and second , that neither author is inclined to give the sort of detail that Ata'i gives in , for example , the biography of Molla Bostan , alluded to just above , from which it is at least arguable that Molla Bostan 's re-entering the medrese stream was exceptional . |
| 30 | Informed by critiques of the insufficiency of both the concept of ‘ the political ’ and hence , the orthodox measures by which political activities are estimated , the investigators have devised research techniques that enable them to explore the multi-faceted nature of political participation . |