Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [is] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the marginal revenue of Division A is simply the transfer price as it can only sell to Division B. So we should work out A 's marginal costs at the required level of group activity and set the transfer price equal to that . |
| 2 | The Chief of Defence Staff is now the sole military adviser to the Government , drawing his advice from the three single Service Chiefs of Staff , whose responsibility is to give the naval , army and air points of view , unfettered by the need to reach collective decisions . |
| 3 | The work of M. Comte is unquestionably the greatest single effort that has been made to obviate this kind of danger . |
| 4 | As the regional data computed from individual WFS surveys in Table 3 show , though infant mortality is much higher in the developing regions than in the developed countries ( where the rate of infant mortality in 1982 was generally around 10–20 per 1,000 live births ) and , although it varies widely among the developing regions , the nature of the relationship of maternal age to the chances of child survival is basically the same . |
| 5 | Using Gauss ' theorem for the left-hand side and noting that the volume integral of charge density is just the total amount of charge , eqn ( 2.14 ) takes the form |
| 6 | That this cohesiveness has persisted in the face of constant harassment , phone-calls , malicious rumours about YCCC members , threats of violence , and the attempted shooting of group members is all the more remarkable . |
| 7 | The College of Education Ripon is now the College of Ripon and York St John . |
| 8 | The absurdity of beef dumping is all the greater because the EC claims to be trying to support African cattle farmers . |
| 9 | The machinery of state officials is only the personification of the legal order , and the distinction between public and private law , espoused in many pluralist accounts , is largely bogus — an attempt to manipulate people into believing that ‘ private ’ law is apolitical or non-state . |
| 10 | What really influences the incidence of rescue operations is partly the extent of danger to related companies , but also the degree of previous cooperation with group objectives which incur debts of gratitude for past favours . |
| 11 | Strictly speaking ( for them ) , the domain of information structure is not the clause as a grammatical unit but the tone group as a phonological unit . |
| 12 | The achievement of a highly reliable level of software management is currently the most important step that must be taken towards overall control of software production , configuration and issue . |
| 13 | The strongest argument in favour of survival surgery is not the mere acquisition of ‘ hands-on ’ expertise but the experience of postsurgical patient care , the observation of wound healing , and correction of possible complications . |
| 14 | The killing of street children is just the most internationally visible part of this process . |