Example sentences of "the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes indicates the indispensability of popping champagne corks for the success of a ball , stating that no less than 1,800 bottles of mousseux were consumed during a party held on 30 August 1739 at which Louis XV apparently attended incognito . |
| 2 | The people in the pew , not to mention the clergy and the musicians themselves , have to be convinced of the priority of worship , and the indispensability of first-rate music within it . |
| 3 | Other treatments adopt an over-simple solution to the problem , always preferring one source to another ; thus the algorithm of Hobbs ( 1976 ) looks at all intrasentential candidates before earlier sentences are considered at all , while Brennan , Friedman & Pollard ( 1987 ) prefer all candidates from the most recent sentence to ones from the current sentence . |
| 4 | This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation . |
| 5 | This is commendably democratic and can work perfectly well , but sometimes the intimacy of one-to-one conversation yields more interesting results for both parties . |
| 6 | Yes , Erika had enjoyed it , very much so ; the proud little manager , looking at the other guests , the intimacy of the talk with her mother , and , knowing her mother 's pride in her children , she had been touched by her concern about the special sports school . |
| 7 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 8 | You only have to look around to assent to the truth of this bitter observation : contamination is the norm , corruption is the accepted social lubricant , deceit the everyday fuel , whether in the intimacy of personal relationships or in the public arena of the affairs of state . |
| 9 | Lying in bed , Pilade still asleep in her arms , she remembered the journeys she had made with the Brownings and the pleasure the intimacy of the carriage had given her . |
| 10 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 11 | It was a close partnership , made all the closer by the small numbers involved and the intimacy of Derry . |
| 12 | One of the great passages of the Old Testament , Psalm 139 , expresses the intimacy of God 's love for us : |
| 13 | Thirdly , and this is the most challenging categorisation , partnerships differ in terms of the intimacy of education business relationships which are developed . |
| 14 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 15 | It tells us that if we could just advance the intimacy of our relationship to the next step we would be satisfied to hold at that level until the wedding . |
| 16 | Where do we learn how to behave in the intimacy of marriage ? |
| 17 | Nowhere is this amnesia more likely to apply than within the intimacy of marriage . |
| 18 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 19 | But if she takes her job too seriously , and acts in this way towards her own children at home , she will lose the intimacy of the relationship and seem a very impersonal and unkind mother . |
| 20 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 21 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 22 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 23 | The rapping is almost exactly like the chanty parts of Cube 's own albums , offering nothing of the intimacy of ‘ Dead Homiez ’ from Cube 's ‘ Kill At Will ’ . |
| 24 | The intimacy of the enforcement relationship is a characteristic of compliance systems where the control of a distinct population of potential violators is directed to ‘ organizations or persons in organized activities [ rather ] than to individuals apart from them ’ ( Reiss , 1980:31 ) . |
| 25 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 26 | The veiled allusion of her reply , the intimacy of her tone of voice , reassured Jacob . |
| 27 | They are particularly unable to cope with the intimacy of marriage and , if bewildered by their spouse 's demands , may flare into violence . |
| 28 | For them the din increased rather than destroyed the intimacy of conversation . |
| 29 | And erm also in what they 're saying the intimacy of their self-dissuasions . |
| 30 | The intimacy of the Stuart brothers with George III was much disliked by the House of Commons . |