Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 2 | It may be it is not the hair itself but possible the style of fishing associated that could be the problem . |
| 3 | To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency , economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency . |
| 4 | ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ . |
| 5 | The very centrality of the aristocracy and its culture in Vienna , however , made possible the restabilization of bürgerliche culture , partly through the integration of a substantial element of aestheticist aristocratic culture into the bourgeois habitus . |
| 6 | The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life . |
| 7 | You see , what the angler has to do with his bait is to make it imitate as nearly as possible the conditions of nature . |
| 8 | This makes possible the identification of ground surface features from their spectral characteristics . |
| 9 | The general thesis is that the disruption of stable bourgeois identity makes possible the rise of modernism , which in turn further destabilizes bourgeois identity in a sort of virtuous circle . |
| 10 | In an effort to separate as far as possible the discussion of equity from the discussion of efficiency , modern welfare economics uses the idea of Pareto-efficiency named after the economist Vilfredo Pareto whose Manuel D'Economie Politique was published as long ago as 1909 . |
| 11 | It makes possible the conferment of life peerages with a right to sit . |
| 12 | But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health . |
| 13 | I can suggest three such general features : heredity is digital , it involves a phenotype-genotype distinction , and it makes possible the amplification of quantum events into macroscopic ones . |
| 14 | The central idea of the Town and Country Planning Act was to make possible the control of development without incurring charges for compensation , by the device of nationalising all development rights in advance . |
| 15 | If an effective service is to be provided to taxpayers then it is essential that wherever possible the breakdown of service provision between different sections is overcome . |
| 16 | In addition to the influence of Solesmes Abbey , there was the scholarship of men such as Briggs , Frere , Palmer and Arnold , reflected in the publications of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage which made possible the recovery of plainsong for English congregations , parochial as well as religious . |
| 17 | Lynch moved the headquarters of boxing in Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow , and made practicable the use of football stadiums for open-air boxing shows . |
| 18 | But one can go on almost endlessly tinker-tailoring the sources of greenness : Nordic nature-loving fascist , Quaker , Zen Buddhist , Taoist , Social Creditist , Marxist , socialist , pacifist , quietist , 1930s Green Shirt . |
| 19 | In most you will find intact the bones of Easter islanders who entered their spirit world centuries past . |
| 20 | This would leave intact the procedure of notification au parquet to which the authors of the Convention took such exception , or even a device such as that once recognised in the English ecclesiastical courts of affixing citation of a foreign resident ‘ upon one of the columns of the Royal Exchange , or in front of some other well-known building , in a place of public resort , which merchants are in the daily habit of frequenting or passing by ’ . |
| 21 | In his own particular way , Karajan also kept intact the ideal of ensemble opera , building teams and rehearsing , with the aid of handsome subventions from his record companies who make preliminary recordings , over a time-span that makes even Glyndebourne 's schedules look rushed . |
| 22 | An appreciation of these complexities will indicate how involved and unexplored the phenomenon of deixis really is and how the philosophical approaches to indexicals can handle only a small proportion of these problems . |
| 23 | Story-telling can keep alive the sense of continuity of family or tribal life . |
| 24 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 25 | But it is in sustaining morale , keeping alive the seed of self-help , rather than providing permanent solutions . |
| 26 | Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP . |
| 27 | Elisabeth Inchbald 's A Simple Story ( 1791 ) , Thomas Holcroft 's Anna St Ives ( 1792 ) and Godwin 's Things as They Are ( Caleb Williams ) ( 1794 ) are major examples , and we can associate with these Mary Wollstonecraft 's unfinished The Wrongs of Woman 1798 ) . |
| 28 | There is another way of looking at how stable the structure of diamond is — that is by asking how easy it is to break the bonds that hold it together . |
| 29 | They argue that goods are used to make ‘ visible and stable the categories of culture ’ ( 1980 : 59 ) . |
| 30 | So you come home to a nice warm , brightly lit home with plenty of piping hot water to soak-away the dust of travel . |