Example sentences of "the [noun] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 2 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 3 | A judicial inquiry into the activities of a Liberal Party fund raiser in Ontario , Patricia Starr , opened on Sept. 18 , 1989 . |
| 4 | Each committee covers a major section of work within a geographical area , linked to the activities of a broad management function , for example ‘ transport ’ ( i.e. train crew , stations , signalboxes , etc. ) , ‘ works and installations ’ ( i.e. permanent way activities ) , offices and workshops . |
| 5 | The National Old People 's Welfare Council , now known as Age Concern , coordinates and encourages the activities of a vast number of local groups concerned with old people 's welfare . |
| 6 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 7 | Indeed he suggests that despite its problems hierarchy remains the most efficient mechanism for integrating the activities of a large group of people , of making an organization work effectively . |
| 8 | The moral seemed obvious : the reversal of the onslaught on wages and the defence of a minimum wage , if not the establishment of a living wage , could be secured by an alliance among unions . |
| 9 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 10 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 11 | In the case of some such biographies the biographer may be concerned with the defence of a dead person , which is sometimes the case with biographies written by loving sons or daughters . |
| 12 | VAN HALEN have come to the defence of a 19-year-old fan arrested for wearing one of the band 's T-shirts . |
| 13 | Determination of the response of a four-terminal network to an input pulse by means of the Fourier transform technique generally involves a mathematically difficult inverse Fourier transformation . |
| 14 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 15 | Such a signal can arise as a result of a nonsinusoidal input signal being applied or through the response of a nonlinear component to a sinusoidal signal . |
| 16 | Armed with the appropriate value of the small-signal complex impedance , the signal response of a nonlinear network to any small input may be found in just the same way as the response of a linear network to an input of any magnitude . |
| 17 | ‘ Fade ’ is a pharmacological phenomenon in which the response of a steady state system to a given stimulus decreases with time ; thus it might be argued that the cigarette smoking had no effect and that the observed reduction in secretion simply coincided with system fade . |
| 18 | Consider the response of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in a Yorkshire infant school where she is asked to say how two pictures are different from each other . |
| 19 | If central government cuts taxes , so that the income of a representative individual increased by the same amount , the increase in local spending should be identical . |
| 20 | The Lord President ( Cooper ) in IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 at 230 stated that : … it is not enough that a person resident in the United Kingdom should somehow have derived benefit from the income of a foreign possession … the duty of the Court was to seek for an actual remittance to , and receipt in , the United Kingdom and not to be lead astray by an " equivalent " to a remittance or receipt , or a " constructive receipt " . |
| 21 | The price of the bow was as much as the income of a common man for a year . |
| 22 | In an interdependent world , the inability of a national state to exercise effective control of its own affairs has long been apparent . |
| 23 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 24 | The crematorium had been built in the park of a stately home with cultivated and wild parts , a lake and many mature trees . |
| 25 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 26 | Originally published under he title The Filibusters in 1947 , this edition has been enhanced by the addition of a new foreword by Lord Jellicoe , who commanded the Special Boat Service for most of its existence in the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | In its submission dated September 1984 to the Council of Ministers , the UK Government proposed the addition of a new Article , 19A to 19F which would provide support for the continuation of farming in a manner that has regard to the countryside in certain environmentally sensitive farming areas . |
| 28 | As distribution is on a module name basis , the addition of a new version causes no further distribution . |
| 29 | ‘ Several subtle changes will require more skills from the riders , and with the addition of a new complex called the ‘ Bull Pens ’ it is thought that the optimum time will be harder to achieve , ’ says Michael Tucker . |
| 30 | The addition of a sound-card facility can add a completely new dimension for the arranger/composer . |