Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Brain of Britain — I 'm struggling with todays Sun crossword — I know it 's embarrassing but I 've only got a degree in Chemistry and we all know that chemistry students are amongst other things the partners of defenders with no brains , i.e Weatherall and Newsome .
2 But , unlike natural membranes ( nerve cell membranes , for example ) the ionic resistance of an artificial membrane can not be varied once it is in place ; and so the flux of ions across the membrane can not be fully controlled .
3 The movement of ions through a membrane is controlled by the nature and number of charged molecules fixed in it .
4 In the case of sodium chloride , there are two moles of ions for every mole of NaCl(s) .
5 The Lawson parameter is this time multiplied by the number density , the number of ions in a unit volume of plasma , n : the sustainment time is the length of time for which these conditions are maintained .
6 Once again , ionization from the ground-state of the molecule leads to the formation of ions in a series of vibrational states , and the UPS band shows a progression with ( see Fig. 6.12 ) .
7 The number density of ions in the torus varies , presumably because of variations in the volcanic activity of Io .
8 The increases in excise tax included increasing the federal gasoline tax from 9 to 14 cents per gallon , the renewal of the tax on airline tickets , increased from 8 to 10 per cent , the doubling of taxes on a six-pack of beer from 16 to 32 cents , increased taxes on wines and spirits , and a tax increase ( from 16 cents a pack to 20 cents ) on cigarettes .
9 Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ?
10 Thus , competitive equilibrium models , with all markets clearing , have been used to investigate the incidence of different taxes , whereas a quite separate literature , using aggregate demand/monetary models , has examined the implications of taxes for the level of employment and the rate of inflation .
11 We recently visited an inspector of taxes with a client .
12 This replacement of the pleasure principle by the reality principle is expressed in mythic form in religious notions of rewards in an afterlife for the instinctual renunciations of this life .
13 Mrs Yaxlee propped her machine against the outer wicket gate of the porch and placed her two armfuls of dahlias beside the door .
14 There are already a lot of Puritans on the London City Council , and they 'd love to close the theatres down . ’
15 Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to .
16 However , on Oct. 3 , Russian President Boris Yeltsin warned that Russia would take " appropriate measures " if the lives of Russians in the conflict area were threatened .
17 Hierarchy in a grid is most readily achieved by superimposing one set of parallels over the other .
18 The explanation of this remarkable correspondence between patterns of sexual dimorphism in humans and gelada baboons is to be found in evidence of parallels in the evolution of the two species which have been attributed to the likely existence of our hominid ancestors in a habitat similar to that of today 's gelada baboon and to a resultant comparability of life-style and evolutionary adaptation .
19 There is some ’ height ’ function H of states of the target system , which we want to optimize .
20 Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system .
21 The United Kingdom is supporting the applications of states from the Commonwealth of Independent States to join the United Nations and the IMF .
22 The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap .
23 The Soviet Union , with Cuban assistance , experimented with the idea of a left-leaning confederation of states in the Horn of Africa in spring 1977 .
24 Washington had agreements with a number of states in the Indian Ocean basin , he claimed , on the joint use of local military bases and installations by American and national armed forces .
25 Since there are substantially fewer syntactic categories than words in the language , the number of states in the model is reduced .
26 This is a metric on the space of states in the game studied above , with eight tiles which have to be moved to the goal position :
27 On one level all treaties and other international transactions affect strangers to the transaction , which must respect the allocation of values between the parties .
28 There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time .
29 There was no place in Müller 's scale of values for a loser .
30 What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people .
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