Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But rather than helping the development of the country , these petrodollars would spread chaos and disappointment among millions of people , while offering fabulous opportunities of corruption to the court , the Shah 's family and may foreign companies and merchants . |
| 32 | The region also has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the world . |
| 33 | The stimulatory effect of ethanol on isolated toad gastric mucosa was partially inhibited ( -50% ) but not abolished by cimetidine , suggesting that the stimulatory action of low concentrations of ethanol on the gastric partietal cell is partly mediated through activation of H 2 receptors . |
| 34 | The combined offices of Clerk to the Council and Clerk of the Signet at the Council in the Marches brought in £900 per annum in fees towards the end of the century . |
| 35 | The granule is dissolved in forty , thirty , twenty , fifteen or eight tablespoons of water with the addition of a little alcohol to preserve it ; 10% is a good guide for solutions designed to last up to two months . |
| 36 | There are two possible sorts of explanation for the difficulties we have in recalling dreams . |
| 37 | Thinking the same way about syntax , we can say that a given set of rules ( a syntactic analysis ) is a function whose domain is the set of possible combinations of morphemes in the language L , and whose range has just two elements , denoting the grammatical and the ungrammatical in L ; or thinking about semantics , we might say that a semantic analysis of L has as its domain the set of well-formed sentences of L , and as its range the set of semantic representations or propositions representing the meaning of each of those sentences . |
| 38 | People & places , Powys photographer Cordelia Weedon highlights differences between intensive and extensive methods of farming in the countryside of the Welsh Borders ( 3 Apr. –9 May ) . |
| 39 | The eight heads of government of the republics forming the economic community , formed on Oct. 18 [ see p. 38537 ] , had postponed indefinitely their meeting due to open on Dec. 18 because of " the uncertainty of the political situation " . |
| 40 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 41 | You will find er different states operating different polic one of the , one of the most interesting transformations of America in the post second world war years er was the migration of many millions of er black people from the southern states to the northern states . |
| 42 | This does not make opencast coal ‘ one of the cheapest forms of energy in the UK ’ , but rather one of great profitability to BC primarily because the full social and environmental costs are not currently being paid . |
| 43 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 44 | Why is it inefficient for different government departments to have different rules of thumb about the marginal value of human life ? |
| 45 | ‘ In late 1992 we think we might see some signs of improvement in the US or some European countries ’ . |
| 46 | A total of 1240 patients had an emergency endoscopic examination within 12 hours of arrival at the emergency department . |
| 47 | The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers . |
| 48 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 49 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 50 | Do we still house German prisoners of war in the Tower ? ’ |
| 51 | But then , second , there was a further division of labour , in the installation , maintenance and some forms of operation of the technology itself : electricians , carpenters , logistical staff . |
| 52 | A good example of a positive symptom is the spasticity that occurs after some forms of damage to the motor system . |
| 53 | You can , however , buy some forms of contraceptives like the condom or sponge from chemists or other retailers . |
| 54 | You can , however , buy some forms of contraceptives like the condom or sponge from chemists or other retailers . |
| 55 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |
| 56 | ‘ There are some cans of drink on the back seat if you 're thirsty . |
| 57 | erm er erm big crate with some strips of wood along the top . |
| 58 | From what we already know about the body clock and the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ , the high frequencies of errors during the night and after lunch are not unexpected ; but why are errors so infrequent in the evening ? |
| 59 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 60 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |