Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nostrils open into cups which can detect the most minute changes in the chemical composition of water . |
| 2 | As representatives of the sovereign nation whose king was a captive in Talleyrand 's chateau , the patriots claimed to supplant the structure of the ancien régime that had so signally failed in the supreme test of patriotism . |
| 3 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 4 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 5 | As in Britain , again , the French wartime propaganda effort was improvised and its full potentialities seen only slowly ; but in France also the growth in the sheer amount of activity was striking . |
| 6 | Whilst counselling is n essentially an intellectual process — mostly it depends upon a facility for empathy with a wide range of other human beings — it is nonetheless very demanding in the sheer volume of literature that has to be read and understood . |
| 7 | In the arbitrariness of their actions , in their trivial comic act of cowardice , lust and vengeance , as much as in the sheer ridiculousness of history , lie the seeds of desperation and heartbreak . |
| 8 | As it was the campaign for Communist affiliation continued smoothly and support for " Unity " grew rapidly in the Labour League of Youth and in local Labour Parties . |
| 9 | In the Labour League of Youth leading members were actively negotiating for the formal amalgamation of the Young Communist League . |
| 10 | There was an " alternative Left " surfing mainly among the ruins of the ILP and in the Labour League of Youth which was generally described as " Trotskyist " by its opponents in the mainstream of the Left . |
| 11 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 12 | And tomorrow in the final part of State of Grace , Ronnie will be turning his attention to the battle over women priests currently dividing the Scottish Episcopal Church . |
| 13 | Firstly , gains from share options in the final year of employment were no longer allowed in the calculation of final salary . |
| 14 | ( 13 ) For the purposes of any proceedings at the quarterly meeting in March in the final year of office of members of a licensing board which are not finally disposed of before the expiry in that year of the term of office of the members , the members of the licensing board in office at the date of the said meeting shall , notwithstanding such expiry , be deemed to constitute the licensing board . |
| 15 | In the final year of training , investigative projects can be given to learners as intermodular work , and the presentation of such projects can form part of their modular assessment . |
| 16 | They also believe that therapeutics should be examined as a separate subject in the final year of undergraduate study and that emphasis should be given to therapeutics throughout the whole medical curriculum , with a minimum of 100 hours being dedicated specifically to the subject . |
| 17 | Resumption of the lending programme followed approval on Feb. 7 , in the final session of Congress under Aquino , of five of six measures to raise tax revenues , in order to cover the projected 1992 budget deficit of P37,700 million ( US$1,460 million ) , or 2.7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , as agreed with the IMF . |
| 18 | Serge Blanco sealed an easy victory with a conversion in the final minute of injury time in Paris . |
| 19 | The torque correction factor shown in the final column of Table 5.2 is the ratio of the exact to approximate results for the pull-out torque . |
| 20 | The repo rates are shown in the final column of Table 8.6 . |
| 21 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 22 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 23 | Elsewhere there are other incentives at stake in the shape of £10,000 , £6,500 , £3,500 and £1,500 end-of-season bonuses for the top four in the final Order of Merit . |
| 24 | Former Arrowe Park assistant Mark Roe completed his most successful season on the Volvo European Tour when joint 18th place in last weekend 's Volvo Masters in Spain took his winnings to almost £210,000 and 18th place in the final Order of Merit . |
| 25 | The resurrection of personhood , justice and equality , And in the final triumph of brotherhood . |
| 26 | They are formed from megakaryocytes which , in the final process of maturation , become amoeboid in shape and their pseudopods penetrate the marrow sinusoids . |
| 27 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 28 | In the final analysis of course , if your back is to the wall and you have to fight , then that is also self-defence . |
| 29 | He also took part in the final ceremony of initiation into manhood which ends with a mass hugging . |
| 30 | The only ray of hope which the BDDA perceived in the report was Dr Eichholz 's call for " a close study of all methods of communication including phonetics linguistics , fingerspelling , finger-reading and gesture " , coupled with a recommendation that " fingerspelling ( the spelling and the reading of it ) should be taught in schools at least in the final period of school life . " |