Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Immediately with a great flutter of wings the pigeons rose into the air and circled above the terrace . |
| 32 | Cases of this kind might not be altogether uncommon ; in a reasonable proportion of cases the distinction between legacy and trust might not be essential to the resolution of the dispute . |
| 33 | Wassailing was originally probably a Roman fertility rite to praise and encourage Pomona , the goddess of fruit trees , and it is still carried out in parts of the UK on Twelfth Night to ensure a good crop of apples the following year . |
| 34 | In a close-knit community of students the video camera is sometimes used for a video club which produces a video magazine about the affairs of the college . |
| 35 | This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 . |
| 36 | The District Court in Topeka , Kansas , fined James and Linda Newton $75,000 for spreading false and malicious statements associating Procter & Gamble with satanism , one more in a long line of lawsuits the company has filed . |
| 37 | Of their long list of successes the most recent and most famous was the arrest , conviction and execution of two thugs , Browne and Kennedy , who had heartlessly blasted to death an Essex police constable named Gutteridge . |
| 38 | AFTER a hectic couple of weeks the coming weekend is relatively quiet , with only the Carneddau mountain race on Saturday . |
| 39 | When applied to the newly discovered cytochrome oxidase blobs in the visual cortex of primates the correlational approach is quite revealing . |
| 40 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 41 | In the very nature of things the orders disposing of a case by a final court of appeal will almost invariably remain inviolate . |
| 42 | From Mass in a variety of village premises and a hayloft up a precarious flight of steps the Parish of St. Anthony , Clayton , is now housed in a modern church opened in 1961 , and parish life is based round the school , the hall and the Convent of the Franciscan sisters . |
| 43 | With the increased vigilance of our officers at seaports and airports and the need to import large consignments of drugs to feed the growing habit of users the obvious answer was to charter or buy a small craft capable of long sea voyages . |
| 44 | On a select number of occasions the licensing authority has decided not to disclose to the medical profession and patients the data behind reasons for its decisions — for example , those relating to Opren ( benoxoprofen ) and Halcion ( triazolam ) . |
| 45 | Given an initial set of conditions the model is run in order to see how closely the real and simulated events correspond . |
| 46 | Among the general body of workers the urge for unity was wide and deep . |
| 47 | Pouchitis usually responds well to treatment with antibiotics , but in a small subset of cases the inflammation is clinically severe , endoscopically atypical , and relatively refractory to conventional treatment . |
| 48 | The more individualistic the inner life of individuals the more clear-cut the demarcation line between our subjects . |
| 49 | It is all too easy to forget the sheer number of songs the man has written that have become pop standards , most of which were included in the two-hour show . |
| 50 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |
| 51 | In a small number of cases the defendant will have deliberately driven without a licence because he ca n't pass a test ; he is a visitor to Britain and because he has been granted leave to stay , he now requires a licence etc. , i.e. within 12 months for a visitor . |
| 52 | In addition to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley 's well publicised and controversial statement that elder abuse was not a ‘ major problem ’ is the worrying view from junior health minister Tim Yeo who said last year : ‘ In a very small number of cases the carer can not cope and responds with violence . ’ |
| 53 | In a small number of cases the division would be in the proportion 2:1 . |
| 54 | He should include in each demise a small number of spaces the availability of which the tenant can be sure . |
| 55 | In this study the difference between conditions was that in the neutral set of slides the father was a car mechanic seen fixing an engine , while in the arousal version the father was a surgeon operating on a badly injured patient . |
| 56 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 57 | The matching poem of the pair ( 40 ) performs even more dazzling feats of Self/Other identification : But from this fairly innocuous interchange of terms the mood darkens , as can be seen most economically by isolating the rhyme-words of the next two quatrains : ‘ receivest — usest — deceivest — refusest — thief — poverty — grief — injury ’ . |
| 58 | However , on a given range of machines the necessary additional routines can be installed and linked by the program which requires them ( ie , the teaching unit program ) , so such programs can be run with standard software on standard systems , with the added complexity being transparent to the user . |
| 59 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 60 | To complement this wonderful collection of textiles the Gordon Reece Gallery has amassed over a thousand old and rare examples of jewellery from many of the great Tribal craft traditions of the world . |