Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their support and messages of comfort were all the more touching and meant a great deal to the Orkney families . |
| 32 | The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example . |
| 33 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 34 | The equivalent of 2 pints of beer , 2 doubles of spirits or 4 glasses of wine is probably the maximum that can be safely drunk regularly — and women 's bodies tolerate less than men 's . |
| 35 | The very line we draw between the contingent and essential properties of individuals is also the fruit of the same totalities , so that the traditional role of the distinction itself is abolished . |
| 36 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 37 | What is the lesson of all this , according to Richard Newstat the lesson is that techniques of persuasion are really the essential armoury of any president , any president who wishes to be successful . |
| 38 | These lectures making science comprehensible and palatable for the fashionable , the earnest and the intellectual circles of London were not the whole programme of the Institution . |
| 39 | Mid-water regions of oceans are always the hardest to explore and model ; very little is known of this region of arctic waters . |
| 40 | The benchers of the Inns of Court are only the agents of the judges in calling to the Bar . |
| 41 | But a central conclusion of Tuttle , that the creatures of Laetoli were not the same species as ‘ Lucy ’ and the ‘ first family ’ of Ethiopia , was challenged immediately . |
| 42 | Jewels worn in remembrance of dear ones lost , or exchanged between lovers as tokens , were extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , although the ubiquitous lockets containing tresses of hair were perhaps the least subtle of these keepsakes. fit a time when the language of such things was far better understood than it is today , hearts and flowers , birds and beasts and a multitude of other symbols were incorporated into jewellery design to signify romantic love , to represent those sentiments and virtues which were the major preoccupation of the day . |
| 43 | Indeed , this would be nothing new , since many tests devised by university departments of education are already the subject of research and development . |
| 44 | The Gorges of Kakouetta are not the end of the road , for a little further on down this valley is the exquisite site and church of Sainte-Engrâce . |
| 45 | Similarly , a blind physiotherapist said : ‘ The frustrations of disability are much the same inasmuch as it is a physical limitation on your life and you think ‘ if only ’ … |
| 46 | Differences of opinion are often the most difficult problem to resolve . |
| 47 | The argument here is that the psychological tendencies responsible for the symptoms of psychosis are not the prerogative of the clinically psychotic . |
| 48 | Just as the severity of symptoms vary , the causes of Cystitis are not the same for every woman . |
| 49 | The most common causes of infection are either the use of endoscopic equipment contaminated with nosocomial pathogens or spread of host derived bacteria after instrumentation of an obstructed biliary tree . |
| 50 | The causes of poverty were much the same in towns . |
| 51 | Sir : The North-east publishers of Viz are nearer the truth than they realise with their soccer strip ( 29 September ) . |
| 52 | Annual revaluations of assets is not the practice in all countries . |
| 53 | Annual revaluations of assets is not the practice in all countries . |
| 54 | The canals of England are mainly the creation of the last forty years of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth , and they introduced a number of distinctive changes into the landscape . |
| 55 | For those who could do so , to subscribe to the militant slogans of Pravda was not the same as to accept the party line on every issue , still less that of Lenin . |
| 56 | The discovery of general laws of structure is only the first step in an interpretive process . |
| 57 | A medical supplies shop in the back streets of Shanghai is not the average travellers idea of an attraction , but for the tack traveller it contains hidden treasures . |
| 58 | The lowest deposits of peat are also the most acid and so least valuable to the farmer . |
| 59 | ‘ These long stretches of uplands were once the old sheep walks , ’ Fen explained as their path began to climb . |
| 60 | The collective chanting of slogans and songs , the taking of ends and the solidaristic expressions of violence are merely the ‘ old ways ’ manifested in an unrestrained and more spectacular form . |