Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point it is really interesting to note the variety of activities that the members of my class regard as ‘ useful ’ . |
| 2 | However , from the gravitational influence of Mercury on the orbit of Mariner 10 a mass was obtained with 5 times less observational uncertainty than radar had yielded , to give a mean density of 5430 kg/m 3 . |
| 3 | Allen was nominated as one of the 135 commissioners ( MPs and others ) to form the high court of justice to conduct the trial of Charles I. The meetings of the court started on 8 January 1649 but Allen did not attend at the Painted Chamber in Whitehall until 17 January . |
| 4 | On the afternoon of November 21st the townspeople flocked to the hill site of Tiutiunnyk 's battle . |
| 5 | Edward still prevaricated , but at the Parliament of March 1299 the magnates extorted further concessions by the threat of armed force . |
| 6 | According to the Economist of March 16 the three groups presented arms " shopping lists " to the Chinese authorities . |
| 7 | A year before their landslide victory in the election of June 1987 the Conservatives lagged behind Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 8 | Julian urges us , ‘ ’ Every morning put your mind into your heart and stand in the presence of God all the day long . ’ |
| 9 | According to a report in the Guardian of June 20 the attack was probably carried out in retaliation for the killing by security forces on June 18 of Mohammed Abdullah Bangroo , field commander of the Hizbul-Mujahidin , one of the largest guerrilla groups operating in Kashmir . |
| 10 | This is the kind of application that the new portable version of ACT ! has fulfilled . |
| 11 | Station Officer Ron Carr , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said : ‘ Smoke was bellowing from the roof of number 14 the end terrace house when we arrived . |
| 12 | There 's the screeching of brakes all the time . |
| 13 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 14 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 15 | Now the cost is thought to be in the range of $500m-1 billion a day . |
| 16 | Since the publication of Cmnd. 7131 the discount rates to be used by nationalized industries have not been specified centrally . |
| 17 | In nineteen thirty there was something like there was only about er ninety , hundred spitfires in the Battle of Britain all the rest were fucking Hurricane 's and stuff |
| 18 | You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America . |
| 19 | The logic of constructing courses so that students recognise the importance of language all the time is very compelling . |
| 20 | This described him aptly for us : he was an eager , neat and busy little footballer who possessed a snappy tackle and plenty of enthusiasm and determination — just the sort of fellow that a successful side needs . |
| 21 | If we nevertheless believe that He exists , we are only showing the sort of commitment that the partisan shows . |
| 22 | On the evening of September 7 a small army of security agents , including Wally and Valenzuela , began converging on the house . |
| 23 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 24 | Although some Iraqi pockets remained , by the evening of Feb. 26 the Kuwaiti resistance movement claimed to be in control of Kuwait City . |
| 25 | In the evening of May 20 the King personally intervened in the crisis , summoning Suchinda and Chamlong to a meeting which was televised live . |
| 26 | On the evening of April 15 the PRI announced that it would not be supporting the new government in parliament . |
| 27 | Not just for Paris either : on the evening of April 6th a huge screen was erected on the Place de la Bastille ; as was one on the Place Bellecour in Lyon , the Place du Capitole in Toulouse and in tiny Aubagne too ( apparently Marseille did not want to pay the 180,000 Francs demanded for the relay , nor could they find anywhere sufficiently large or quiet ) . |
| 28 | On the evening of March 20 an estimated 70,000 ethnic Hungarians demonstrated in Bucharest . |
| 29 | On the evening of Jan. 22 the congress voted to endorse abolition of the LCY 's constitutionally guaranteed leading role in society . |
| 30 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4·6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |