Example sentences of "of the [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a calculation of the percentage no shows ; |
| 2 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 3 | We too , like the apostles have our part to play in the building of the kingdom because we are not just members of the Church the apostles founded , we are the Church . |
| 4 | In the early stages of the conflict the nations of the West concerned themselves little with the war . |
| 5 | In many of the towns the houses displayed the cerulean hue , both inside and out . |
| 6 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 7 | At the edge of the woods the crofters snatched up waiting spears and ready-strung bows to drive the Macleans back to the huts and the eager blades . |
| 8 | Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time . |
| 9 | Your Lordships accept that a civil court should never make an order that will inhibit the processes of the criminal law , but regard the letter written by a Principal Officer in the Crown Prosecution Service as a sufficient assurance that the prosecution will be placed at no disadvantage if pursuant to the order of the court the defendants produce a number of incriminating documents that can not be used in a prosecution . |
| 10 | Since the Conservatives lost control of the council the politicians have been very poor stewards of our affairs and I do n't think they 'll be missed at all . |
| 11 | The campaign did well in London , but in the rest of the country the pickings were thin . |
| 12 | In addition , in many parts of the country the extensions to the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) have just begun . |
| 13 | Today , announcing that the bodies will be flown back to Wiltshire base tomorrow , the station commander spoke of the sacrifice the men had made . |
| 14 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 15 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 16 | By the end of the session the groups had started to map out the areas for questions to be used with the visitors . |
| 17 | Various studies have shown that the public evaluate the police in terms of the attitude the police show them when they are victims in need of police help ( for example , Jones 1983 ; Maguire 1982 ; Shapland 1982 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Quite often things will not go to plan because of the variability of people 's behaviour in situations of stress or the unusual and horrific nature of some of the calls the police have to attend . |
| 19 | Well that 's very harsh particularly in view of the stick the forwards have to take . |
| 20 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 21 | On the other side of the ford the trees grew almost to the water 's edge , appearing shadowy and dim as the sun moved slowly westward . |
| 22 | This is because in considering what are the interests of the shareholders the directors are not obliged actually to consider what the subjective desires of the shareholders might be . |
| 23 | At the end of the tour the knights are shown three of the chambers of the mind : phantasy , judgement , and memory . |
| 24 | And gathering chickweed out of the neep the chickens and that for green feed when they needed and they were confined in a small small space where there was no green grass to feed them on . |
| 25 | His monks had a grange at Widcombe , and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries the lands were divided , the Prior 's Park being sold separately to Humphrey Colles while the Manor House and its estate went to the rich clothier , Richard Chapman , who was mayor and MP for Bath . |
| 26 | The retaker , before he attempts to retake , must , if required to do so , explain to the occupier of the land or the person in possession of the goods the facts upon which his proposed action is based . |
| 27 | In the pellets or scats of many of the predators the teeth are either not broken at all or have only suffered minor damage , and these are for the most part the same species for which little damage to the jaws is evident . |
| 28 | Yet at the end of the Triassic the synapsids were practically extinct and the dinosaurs , which as Figures 2 and 4 illustrate are a quite different group , were abundant and widespread . |
| 29 | Yet by the end of the Triassic the dinosaurs ( prosauropods ) were the dominant herbivores worldwide . |
| 30 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |