Example sentences of "the [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this object thus much is effected by works of imagination : — that they carry the mind out of self , and show the possible of the good and the great in the human character . |
| 2 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 3 | Later , with the shutters closed against the night , the four of them sat within the ingoing of the great fireplace of the hall , on two cushioned benches on either side of the glowing , hissing log fire . |
| 4 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 5 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 6 | Lost in the Musick of the whirling Flail , |
| 7 | They turned into World 's End , and opened the door into the peaceful garden where the faithful of the Moravian sect lie buried . |
| 8 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 9 | The pH is the logarithmic expression of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration , whereas the others are measures of the quantity of alkali or acid present in the sample , determined quantitatively between appropriate pH limits . |
| 10 | On the other hand , is the reciprocal of the small-signal voltage gain when the input is open circuit to signals so that . |
| 11 | Ultimately total deposits will increase by £1,000 , the size of the multiplier being the reciprocal of the liquid asset ratio , i.e. th . ( ) . |
| 12 | If the time taken to execute cycle of delay routine is T1 and the time occupied in changing excitation , updating and position count and moving the delay pointer is l " 2 , then , for a delay value d , the time between excitation changes is : which is the reciprocal of the instantaneous stepping rate : T1 and T2 are fixed by the number of processor instruction cycles required to execute the corresponding sections of software . |
| 13 | Again , we choose the matrix A of Equation ( 2.2.1.4 ) : ( i ) The leading minor of order 1 , b1 , is the element 6 : reciprocal 1/6. ( ii ) Using ( i ) , we apply the formulae ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) to find the reciprocal of the leading minor of order 2 , viz : unc Here unc and we deduce unc ( iii ) We now use this result to examine the third order minor unc Then unc similarly , unc Also unc Note that , in Equations ( 4 ) which we now evaluate , unc is a matrix of rank 1 . |
| 14 | Comminges was one of the lesser of the old Pyrenean counties , without the prestige or the influence of Bigorre or Foix-Béarn . |
| 15 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 16 | The immature Greenland whitefront , for instance , is accidentally confused with the immature of the European subspecies . |
| 17 | The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true . |
| 18 | It is the basis in the sense that each of the dependent conditionals rests on some independent conditional and a further premiss related to the antecedent of the independent conditional . |
| 19 | First , both theories suggest an eventual return of homosexuality : in the one ( psychoanalytic ) it is a psychic return of the repressed from within , in the other ( materialist ) a social or cultural return from without ; either an inner resurgence of desire through the breakdown of psychic repression , or the oppositional approach via the proximate of the demonized other from beyond , from the social margins where he or she has been discovered , constructed , displaced . |
| 20 | Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way . |
| 21 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 22 | In the 15 and 16C this was the seat of the Consistory of the Utraquist Church which administered the Týn . |
| 23 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 24 | Geometrically , it is a segment of a sphere with radius equal to one half the diagonal of the square bay to be covered by the dome . |
| 25 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 26 | He pointed to the 6.8 per cent increase in the number of income support claimants between 1991 and ‘ 92 and gave warning of the effect on the poor of the staged increases on valued0added tax on domestic fuel bills . |
| 27 | Billericay Rural District Council v. Guardians of the Poor of the Popular Poor Law Union [ 1911 ] 2 K.B . |
| 28 | In an interesting but rather elusive study of Methodism , which sees it as " the English counterpart to the democratic revolution " , the critical dynamic in a " modernisation " of English society which bypassed the need for revolution , Professor Semmel writes that Wesley primarily addressed his message to " The poor of the nascent proletariat of England 's growing factory towns " . |
| 29 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 30 | By using Stokes ' theorem for the left-hand-side and recognizing that the integral of the current density gives the current , the above equation reduces |