Example sentences of "[det] [noun] of [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 Under this kind of joint responsibility the District foresaw that in undertaking the resident tutor 's organising and teaching duties in north and mid-Essex some of the courses would fall into the Chapter III category .
2 With this condition of high inertia the pull-out torque is equal to the maximum average torque which can be produced by the motor .
3 Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic .
4 To achieve this degree of conversational initiative the system will engage in plan generation and interpretation as the means of understanding linguistic acts .
5 It appeared that by some quirk of Celtic syntax the inscription can mean , ‘ The miller is not grinding tonight . ’
6 Many felt that , in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ in some sort of crude sense the physicists have known sin — a knowledge they can not lose . ’
7 After five and a half years of intense activity the burdens of leading the French people had worn de Gaulle down .
8 The second part of McKenna 's thesis posits that during this period of respiratory instability the infant 's ‘ evolutionary past ’ should not be forgotten .
9 After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up .
10 By 1979 , after another spell of Labour government the nationalized industries accounted for 10 per cent of GDP , 15 per cent of national investment , and 8 per cent of employment .
11 Even to this hub of metropolitan life the afternoon calm extended .
12 For each of these components of primary education the investigator is concerned to improve the quality of initial training .
13 In conclusion , one must remember that in all cases of contributory negligence the burden of proof lies on the party alleging it .
14 In all periods of recorded history the political order in particular regions , or in the world as a whole , has been very largely a product of conquest and the establishment of empires , armed struggles for national independence , and conflicts among dynasties , empires or nation states .
15 " Just as a thermostat registers the results of its operation , compares these with the original instructions and adapts its operations accordingly , so in many phases of human activity the organism seems to adapt to its performance .
16 In many instances of social research the research workers are going to survey a group of people who are quite different from themselves .
17 In this as in so many fields of social service the voluntary contribution can be great both in a pioneering sense and in the steady provision of research , public education and good facilities .
18 In any assessment of evangelistic effectiveness the church growth movement stresses the need to focus attention not so much on decisions registered but on disciples made .
19 Léon Cohn-Casson had believed that the sooner all Jews lost any traces of separate identity the better .
20 Following several months of political uncertainty the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) voted on Aug. 3 by 295 votes to 13 in favour of the election of Arpad Göncz as national President .
21 After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October .
22 Though macrosomia can not be directly equated with morbidity , as long as maternal glycaemia during pregnancy can be shown to influence any aspect of fetal outcome the entity of gestational diabetes can not be dismissed out of hand .
23 IN any marshalling of detailed evidence the dangers of forensic tedium are present .
24 In his column in the Scottish edition of the Sun newspaper today , Mr Sillars says : ‘ It is that position of political integrity the party must build on , even if it means a new collective leadership sooner rather than later . ’
25 For most philosophers of classical antiquity the world was both animate and divine .
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