Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 2 | As E. R. Dodds has remarked , ‘ where men can build their systems only out of used pieces the notion of progress can have no meaning — the future is devalued in advance ’ . |
| 3 | Although is is undoubtedly the case that the left hemisphere has primary responsibility for language in the vast majority of right handers the proportion of left handers for which this is true is not entirely clear . |
| 4 | With the advance of viticultural techniques the volume of grapes produced in Champagne naturally tended to rise and , always provided that they did not over-produce — a responsibility of ComCon which must be ratified by the non-partisan decree of the minister of agriculture — the quality of the fruit yielded also rose . |
| 5 | Russell attempted to assess in a number of different ways the impact of wife rape on the victims in her survey . |
| 6 | Holists , by contrast , wish to explain individual intentions and desires as the outcome of these wholes , thereby awarding explanatory priority to a range of social factors the identity of which varies from theory to theory . |
| 7 | ‘ It is alarming that in the annual reports of chief constables the number of stray dogs is always recorded but not the number of missing children , ’ Ms Newman writes . |
| 8 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
| 9 | Extremely luminous water-vapour masers of 100 times the luminosity of the Sun , L and ; ( ref. 3 ) , have been detected within 1parsec ( 3x10 18 cm ) of its nucleus . |
| 10 | In 93 out of 100 cases the number of relevant factors increased with the size of the sub-group . |
| 11 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , George Eliot shared in the Victorian enthusiasm for Dutch interior painting , which dwells in a similar way upon the potency of objects , eliciting from the contemplation of such things the expression of useful lives ( Fig. 81 ) , almost in the manner of medieval Flemish painters for whom such details are invariably symbolic of spiritual states . |
| 13 | The Head of Humanities in a large comprehensive school commented in my hearing , in a staff meeting about 3rd year general discussion groups on controversial issues , that " in about half of such groups the question of God is brought in by some kid or other " and that he felt " put on the spot " . |
| 14 | Moreover , at the beginning of such crises the production of consumer goods either remained at a high level or actually continued to increase . |
| 15 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 16 | This consists of : The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Although there is no legal requirement for companies to comply with SSAP9 , auditors will expect the financial accounts of companies to meet the guidelines laid down . |
| 17 | The first of these concerns the difficulty of replacing or augmenting tissues that are living , highly organised but dynamically responsive and structurally complex materials with synthetic materials that are non-living and structurally naive and unresponsive . |
| 18 | One of these concerns the idea of the oscillating Universe ( see below ) . |
| 19 | The first of these concerns the relation of the body to the mind and emotions . |
| 20 | The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form . |
| 21 | Many systems make some questions easier to ask and answer , particularly where the structure of these matches the design of the database . |
| 22 | In the context of these questions the rarity of genuinely collaborative group work is unfortunate . |
| 23 | In a high proportion of these cases the occupation of father or mother 's chief economic supporter , where known , is manual ( particularly social class V ) . |
| 24 | In each of these cases the existence of the doctrine of non est factum was affirmed , in each the acceptable limits of the plea was discussed , in none was the plea allowed to prevail . |
| 25 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 26 | In each of these cases the majority of farmers have less than 1 hectare under the relevant crop , but most achieve levels of income well in excess of their neighbours who remain outside the projects . |
| 27 | In each of these cases the victim of a fraud had signed a document not understanding what he or she was doing . |
| 28 | in each of these verbs the use of an additional marker of subject , object or pronoun , is optional . |
| 29 | Throughout the greater part of these districts the supply of water is intimately mixed , the pipes of both companies going down all the streets and into almost all the courts and alleys . |
| 30 | As a result of these liaisons the rest of my job involves problem solving and development of initiatives . |