Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] of [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a set of rules which inform and direct human behaviour , and the transgression of any of these usually leads to some form of superhuman intervention in the form of illness and mishap . |
| 2 | ‘ Hummingbird ’ was just my name — and the name of one of the animals in the Book of Remembering . |
| 3 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 4 | In Iraq the government failed to deliver the autonomy it promised in 1970 , and punished the Kurds after their rebellions in 1974–75 and 1986–88 with executions , mass deportations and the demolition of thousands of villages . |
| 5 | The signal is transferred across the synapse between the axon of one cell and the dendrite of another by neurotransmitters . |
| 6 | After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline . |
| 7 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 8 | It was necessary to remove the stainless steel split pins from the big end nuts — easier said than done considering that the crank shaft was seized solid and the position of some of the big ends in relation to the crankcase wall made access to them almost impossible . |
| 9 | as if on cue , a cistern flushed and the door of one of the WC cubicles opened to reveal the emerging figure of George Prendergast , the Personnel Director . |
| 10 | With its finances balanced precariously , with Ministry restrictions on the appointment of tutor-organisers and the withdrawal of some of the university 's resident tutors , it had to rely heavily on voluntary effort — and no-one who reads the branch or Federation literature of this period can fail to be moved by the zealous commitment of ordinary WEA members , a commitment based upon the sheer love of learning and an earnest desire to offer something worthwhile to society . |
| 11 | But he still commands the army , and the loyalty of many of its officers . |
| 12 | ‘ The catechism is about the beliefs , the worship , the prayer and the way of loving of those who wish to follow Christ in the Catholic Church . |
| 13 | There is as yet only an embryonic realisation of the social and economic costs of the " efficient factory " in terms of structural unemployment , frantic energy consumption , loss of job satisfaction and the squandering of some of society 's most precious assets , which are the skill , ingenuity , creativity and enthusiasm of ordinary people . |
| 14 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
| 15 | This is certainly not our intention and the chance of any of these things disturbing your holiday is quite small . |
| 16 | It must establish at once what type of character each is to play in the plot and the relationship of each to the environment of a theme or the style of dance being used . |
| 17 | The publication team will be concerned with much wider issues and the relationship of each to each other and to the future of the business . |
| 18 | Further precision is required , for example , in discussing what is meant by economies of scale and the relationship of these to natural monopoly . |
| 19 | Philip Abrams , who died tragically young in 1981 , spent a number of extremely productive years researching the nature of neighbourliness and the relationship of informal to formal care systems . |
| 20 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 21 | Hodgson wanted to emphasise both the long understood wisdom of his argument — he referred to Pliny as concurring — and the support of some of the best modern minds in Hume , Beattie , Franklin and Brougham . |
| 22 | This might include the amount of light , noise and general stimulation the child received during the daytime and the lack of these at night . |
| 23 | Instead they had offered unspecified cuts in troop levels , the disbanding of rural civil defence forces and the demilitarization of two of the three police units — to be placed under civilian ministries , if the guerrillas agreed to a ceasefire . |
| 24 | These were resolved by the formal recognition that the structure was no longer one of layers or levels , but a curriculum/year-group matrix , requiring close collaboration between the parties and the involvement of all of them in policy discussions . |
| 25 | The government of Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao resorted to a series of draconian measures involving the arrest of senior opposition leaders , the dismissal of four state ministries , the banning of religious organizations and the detention of thousands of their supporters . |
| 26 | One of the most basic freedoms anywhere is the right to peace , and the choice of quiet over noise . |
| 27 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 28 | The Authority is of the opinion that the scale imbalance is such that some adjustment to begin correct this should be made whilst the balance and extent of CAA regulatory activities is reviewed , the probable impact of JAA influence is assessed and the affect of these on the relationship of cost is determined . |
| 29 | But its principled insistence upon grassroots-level work , criticising labour movement officialdom where necessary , has also produced difficulties : its inability to win sustained trade union support at regional level , over-reliance on the now abolished West Midlands County Council for core funding , and the instability of many of the community groups it serviced , have placed its future at serious risk . |
| 30 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |