Example sentences of "of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to underline fears about new diseases from Europe , that symbol of unity the Channel tunnel has been fitted with electronic fox traps to prevent that most dreaded of diseases , rabies . |
| 2 | During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime . |
| 3 | Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match . |
| 4 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 5 | Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident . |
| 6 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 7 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 8 | They could find out what kind of support the Irish comrades would accept . |
| 9 | ‘ Support one day can turn into lack of support the next . ’ |
| 10 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 11 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
| 12 | With that backdrop of hair the small round shoulders gained in defencelessness and pallor — but come on , the Isles was no place for local contrasts . |
| 13 | Montage always ‘ places the spectator 's look in question , ( it ) poses the question of its constitution , and makes the institution of cinema the question of every film ’ . |
| 14 | In the case of a star of mass the time constant is of the order , which means that when the signals from the probe begin to fade they do so quickly . |
| 15 | It was the sort of route the British had long been anxious to create , an all-red one , passing through either British-owned , British-run or British-controlled territory . |
| 16 | Section 663 provides that where there is a settlement , and during the life of the settlor any income is paid to or for the benefit of a child of the settlor in any year of assessment , the income shall , if at the time of payment the child is unmarried and below the age of 18 , be treated as the settlor 's income and not the income of any other person . |
| 17 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 18 | From the early stages of industrialisation the demand for unskilled labour was exceeded only by the supply ; as an occupational category it remained dominant . |
| 19 | At the start of take-off the stick is held fully back so that , as the aircraft accelerates , the floats ' bow-waves build up to lift their fronts . |
| 20 | At the time of take-off the aircraft 's weight was close to the maximum authorised weight and the centre of gravity was within limits . |
| 21 | In this anecdotal kind of story the device is , on the whole , pleasing to the reader , even after being caught out by it , and so it is permissible . |
| 22 | Gatwick — set in over 100 acres of woodland the Copthorne Hotel . |
| 23 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 24 | At the end of the first hour of prayer the Sergeant who had branded Lexandro — Sergeant Zed Juron — summoned him and Valence and Tundrish and another cadet , Omar Akbar , the number that would make a squad of Scouts , in fact . |
| 25 | ‘ What about that man who kept buying copies of Fight the Good Fight by Angela Truebridge ? ’ |
| 26 | The levels of precaution differ in the amount of freedom the patient is allowed and the intensity of observation . |
| 27 | But with a shake of his head and a gentle smile he decided against doing so , for he liked the feeling of freedom the open window gave him . |
| 28 | Whether a translation conforms to the source-text patterns of cohesion or tries to approximate to target-language patterns will depend in the final analysis on the purpose of the translation and the amount of freedom the translator feels entitled to in rechunking information and/or altering signals of relations between chunks . |
| 29 | At the time of diagnosis of leukaemia the TNF was 3 pg/mL ; during her pneumonia , 40 pg/mL ; 2 months after , 8 pg/mL ; and 5 months after , 7 pg/mL . |
| 30 | To the visitor who approaches the south side of the palace today from the harbour of Split the once magnificent south wall and colonnade are disappointing and a clearer idea of the original splendour of this elevation can be gained from Robert Adam 's drawing made in 1764 before the shops were built in front of it at ground level . |