Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw in chapters 6 and 7 , for pluralists the activities of groups are the central feature of the political process . |
| 2 | An authoritative article in Pravda entitled ‘ The defence of socialism is the highest international duty ’ set out what later became known as the ‘ Brezhnev doctrine ’ : this insisted that the interests of the communist countries as a whole took priority over the wishes of any individual communist country and that no defection from the communist camp could be permitted . |
| 3 | The judgment on the News International ban made it clear that political censorship , at least , could be fought effectively , and the basis for the defence against censorship was the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 4 | The sticking-point for Buckingham is the murder of the princes in the Tower , and in two brief soliloquies Richard resolves to break with this half-hearted Machiavellian — ‘ High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect ’ ( IV.ii.31 ) . |
| 5 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 6 | The submissions for the defendants included the following : ( i ) a local authority , such as the council , is controlled by elected councillors and the ability to control such a council by the vote of the majority of councillors is the objective of political activity . |
| 7 | For example , if it were shown that the reduction of through-traffic was the principal reason for the reduction in accidents , then it would be efficacious to dispense with the expensive street furniture and speed-reduction measures . |
| 8 | The link through language is the most obvious and most straightforward one to make if your syllabus is based on linguistic items such as language structures or functions . |
| 9 | Before 1948 , the provision of hospitals was the responsibility of various statutory and voluntary bodies , with the result that their geographical distribution reflected a variety of factors other than need . |
| 10 | Why the change of direction is the most important and difficult move in golf to come to terms with goes much further than many golfers seem to realise . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 12 | As the change in density is the result of a change in temperature this kind of isostatic adjustment is termed thermal isostasy . |
| 13 | According to some reports the change in emphasis was the result of pressure from the United States . |
| 14 | One direct result of the change in policy is the abandonment of a coffee-growing project in the south of the Central African Republic , which would have opened a rainforest area to unplanned colonization and illegal logging . |
| 15 | A common theme , especially from those enthusiastic about the proposal , was the need for commitment : ‘ the struggle for justice is the only hope for the movement of society towards the kingdom of God … |
| 16 | In any case , UNRWA 's resettlement plan coincided with the rise of Nasserist Arabism , the desire for strength to defeat the pervasive influence of foreign powers in the Arab body politic , of which the existence of Israel was the most potent manifestation . |
| 17 | Another element in the break-up of libraries is the advent of computers . |
| 18 | The overthrow of Eadwine was the consequence of further shifts in the political equilibrium of the Anglian world . |
| 19 | If the heroism of Roland is the obverse of a coin , the reverse is the doctrine of holy war as it impinged on the cruder minds of thousands of contemporaries . |
| 20 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 21 | Then then then the winner of course is the one that takes the money . |
| 22 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 24 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer , the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for non-delivery. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the seller 's breach of contract . |
| 25 | Thus the measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the market price on the date for actual performance . |
| 26 | The measure of conservation is the amount of energy required to produce a single unit of economic growth . |
| 27 | But if the measure of fertility is the number of young that are produced in a season , then the record is held by Microtus , a tiny meadow mouse from North America . |
| 28 | The heart of Saphery is the Tower of Hoeth , the shrine of the God of Wisdom . |
| 29 | At the heart of neo-Fordism is the development of flexible specialization to replace the rigid assembly-line system of production . |
| 30 | The heart of Liberalism is the understanding that progress is not a matter of mechanical contrivance , but of the liberation of living spiritual energy . |