Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge of the burgesses paved the way for the eventual emergence of a large class of landless labourers with no means of livelihood other than the sale of their labour for a wage ; this was , therefore , one of the conditions for the development of capitalism . |
| 2 | Large numbers of people become Christians for all sorts of reasons other than the fact that they fully understand why Christianity is true . |
| 3 | Public libraries form by far the largest sector of the library world and they have no association with any one group of user other than the general public , so they would all receive the benefit of any national or even international promotional campaign . |
| 4 | It is of course necessary that the alternative definition of a mental event not be of something which in fact can be recalled afterwards , but of something of which there is a logical possibility of recall . |
| 5 | When demand and supply are spoken of in relation to one another , it is of course necessary that the markets to which they refer should be the same . |
| 6 | The difference in accident estimates between right and left turns , t(22)=1.89 , p<0.05 , suggests that subjects may indeed have used feelings of risk inappropriately when giving their accident estimates ( alternatively , it is of course possible that the right turns used in this study actually did come from objectively more risky junctions than the left turns ) . |
| 7 | But absolutely everything of course other than the movement changed since I was seventeen . |
| 8 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 9 | It is of course true that the human body , its associated natural processes , and those of other living organisms , provide natural models that offer a finite range of symbolic themes which we can pick out in different cultures . |
| 10 | It is of course true that the work they carried out may or may not be done by a small part of some other organization but this in itself is a startling example of fragility . |
| 11 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 12 | It is of course important that the ‘ accompanying ’ layer does not have its clarity and identity confused by too much individual voice movement . |
| 13 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 14 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 15 | Of course , a rule permitting the directors to defend the company from a poorly-managed predator would be perfectly coherent ( and might be desirable ) , but this would not be because the entity has an intrinsic significance that merits protection , but rather because the rule would serve the rational purpose of protecting the interests of groups other than the shareholders who would be adversely affected by a change in control . |
| 16 | The forest had become like an open-air classroom for the study of subjects other than the trees themselves — nature and bird life , animal and insect life ; aquatic studies based on the stream ; map-reading , the study of rocks and soils ; drawing from nature and even gardening came into it . |
| 17 | Leaders and officials of parties other than the NPN nevertheless complain that it does not give them fair treatment . |
| 18 | In terms of the aggregate demand curve developed in section 4.1 this specification is a simplification : it ignores the influence on aggregate demand of variables other than the quantity of money . |
| 19 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 20 | Then follows the wedding ceremony , marking the beginning of marriage proper and the myriad negotiations of the early years of married life . |
| 21 | However , hotels , restaurants and other places of entertainment where the substantial proportion of the business consisted of transactions other than the sale of intoxicating liquor came within the 1954 Act . |
| 22 | In response to these events , the monetary authorities of countries other than the USA decided that they would no longer intervene to stabilize their exchange rates against the dollar , since this would have meant their accumulating large quantities of dollars for which ( a ) the exchange value was uncertain , and ( b ) the option of convertibility into gold at a fixed price had been terminated . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 24 | Travel sickness is known to be the result of repetitive movements on the organ of balance in the inner-ear , but very little is known about the types of movements responsible and the types of people who suffer most . |
| 25 | Reasonably shallow water offshore , though the necessity for this really depends on the amount of sediment available and the strength of marine erosion . |
| 26 | The judge postponed the hearing ; Ms Petrova read the statement aloud outside the courtroom to cheers and applause from several dozen friends , including Vaclav Havel , who had attended the hearing with British and American diplomats and representatives of Amnesty International and the official Czechoslovak Committee on Human Rights . |
| 27 | First prize will be a trip to the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in May next year as a guest of Amnesty International and the British Government . |
| 28 | I am thinking of Amnesty International and the Churches . |
| 29 | Urwin and New and David revalue the absent , ‘ bad ’ mother-subject positively , and ascribe the potential for ‘ good mothering ’ more widely than usual , as a capacity of carers other than the mother . |
| 30 | Jess Reid 's chapter undertakes an analysis of children 's literature , which involves instances of the written speech and thought of individuals other than the author of the story . |