Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The involuntary nature of Keynesian unemployment arises , as we saw earlier , from the inability of either workers or employers directly to exert the downward pressure on the real wage rate that was required by the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour . |
| 32 | There are amusing archaeological records in the nineteenth century of the inability of even trained artists to record what they saw ; Assyrian figure sculptures , for example , were recorded as having unmistakably classical Greek features by an artist in the employ of the archaeologist Sir Henry Layard . |
| 33 | The inability to speedily and correctly diagnose aircraft system and component failures because good diagnostic skills are in short supply leads to departure delays and possible compromises in safety . |
| 34 | I would have been content then to die myself , rather than take my body back eventually to encumber the continents with yet another corpse . |
| 35 | There 's the park in there , |
| 36 | And the addition of commercially manufactured ‘ scratching-posts ’ to the indoor furniture rarely seems to solve the problem . |
| 37 | Whatever Churchill may have said , most of Labour 's leaders were less ambitious , demanding only the addition of steeply progressive taxation to the existing apparatus of wartime control of industry . |
| 38 | It can be varied by the addition of freshly chopped herbs , mustard powder , lemon juice or garlic , or indeed by using a nut oil or a flavoured vinegar . |
| 39 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 40 | When one Landau level is full , the addition of just one more electron puts the Fermi energy EF , at the bottom of the next level , and the decrease of the Hall voltage should continue with imperceptible disturbance . |
| 41 | This is one of the reasons why the addition of quite small amounts of the wrong impurity can ruin an alloy . |
| 42 | The afternoon started with some bold blows by Fleming , but he was spectacularly caught by Nicholas , leaping high at mid-off , and the last wickets fell for the addition of only 30 runs in four overs . |
| 43 | Commercial taramasalata is often spoiled by the addition of too much bread or too much oil . |
| 44 | As mentioned in Chapter 1 , the addition of too much salt ( or sugar ) to the mixture could be dangerously counter-productive . |
| 45 | The dangers of osmotic loss of water into the gut lumen from the tissue due to the addition of too many individual glucose molecules to the rehydration solution have already been described in Chapter 1 . |
| 46 | the addition of more Eastern European languages |
| 47 | Another said the loss of one tender being moved to Bishop Auckland would be balanced by the addition of more state-of-the-art equipment coming to the town . |
| 48 | In fact , what inevitably happens is that someone buys the house for the floor space of the extensions , seeing the opportunity for yet further building in the grounds , where planning permission would never normally be given . |
| 49 | Pinpointing the genes involved would , Prof Brock said , open up ‘ the opportunity for more accurate and supportive genetic counselling to would-be parents and the prospects of gene therapy in the future ’ . |
| 50 | That is why , in the defence estimates debate on 14 October 1991 , my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) said : ’ We should be careful to preserve the opportunity for as many of our civilians as possible to serve in the volunteer forces . ’ |
| 51 | Here at last was the opportunity for almost unlimited eastward expansion . |
| 52 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 53 | His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating . |
| 54 | The principal method of investigation is residential fieldwork , using standard anthropological techniques , which affords the opportunity of simultaneously conducting several continuing series of interviews with selected individuals and panels of informants . |
| 55 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |
| 56 | In addition what we 're actually doing is we 're building in this new fin financial planning guide which gives you the opportunity to just look at where you are just now and where you want to do in the future . |
| 57 | Chance , fate or whatever you want to call it was offering me the opportunity to finally get you out of my system . |
| 58 | The consumer groups that are sponsoring Mr Radice 's bill have seized the opportunity to erroneously lay blame for such secrecy at the door of drug companies . |
| 59 | SIS will also be covering Kelso , Newbury and greyhound racing from Bristol so the need to give punters the opportunity to additionally sample delights from the orient hardly seems necessary . |
| 60 | The breakdown of national pay bargaining in the power industry gives NIE the opportunity to quickly reduce demarcation and improve labour efficiency and gradually bring pay rates employment market . ’ |