Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many groups , much literature , and a great deal of help available for the widowed or divorced — so much that to go into the subject in detail would require another book . |
| 2 | Both Surveys contain a good deal of information relevant to the assessment of living standards including expenditure data ( from the FES ) , indicators of health and social participation ( from the GHS ) and data on the possession of assets ( from both Surveys ) . |
| 3 | The OAS had previously made the lifting of sanctions dependent on the return of Aristide to office . |
| 4 | Usually she had a saucepan of water simmering on the electric stove , with two plates warming on top of it , waiting to receive the meal . |
| 5 | In the light of modern knowledge of crime and its causes and of modern penal practice here and abroad , to re-examine the concepts and purposes which should underlie the punishment and treatment of offenders in England and Wales ; to report how far they are realised by the penalties and methods of treatment available to the courts , and whether any changes in these , or in the arrangements and responsibility for selecting the sentences to be imposed on particular offenders , are desirable : to review the work of the services and institutions dealing with offenders , and the responsibility for their administration : and to make recommendations . |
| 6 | The first year has six required units which introduce students to the concepts and methods of analysis central to the study of mass media . |
| 7 | The first year has two required units which introduce students to the concepts and methods of analysis central to the study of mass media . |
| 8 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 9 | If it is not due to diagnostic suspicion bias then postulated mechanisms might include changes in gall bladder contractility associated with the progesterone content , or increased cholesterol saturation of bile due to the oestrogen content . |
| 10 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the use of keywords from Dewey as a means of generating additional keywords for records was extremely fruitful and allowed better retrieval even if , on occasions , there was some loss of precision due to the granularity of the classification . |
| 12 | ‘ A temporary loss of memory due to the blow on your head . |
| 13 | One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates . |
| 14 | The use of side ponds at Foxton and Watford reduces the loss of water due to the passage of a boat to a minimum of one half of a lock full of water . |
| 15 | loss of rent payable to the Policyholder , e.g. from a tenant . |
| 16 | Once the machine starts to move , there will be a loss of lift due to the sideways component being used to produce the movement and more power will be required . |
| 17 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 18 | Sociologists ' strictures about loss of familiarity due to the disruption to social life , as in the study of Bethnal Green ( Young and Wilmott , 1957 ) , at first went largely unheeded , though their conclusions were unmistakable : Abercrombie 's Greater London Plan had now to be looked at in rather a different light . |
| 19 | He is of good family ( genus ) , he is articulate , with the command of language necessary for the conduct of affairs in political assemblies and the lawcourts ( ) , and he has pietas , meaning active virtue , a strenuous and selfless pursuit of what he believes to be right . |
| 20 | He had some success , but many of his patients died , probably as a result of infections consequent upon the introduction of non-sterile fluids into the circulation . |
| 21 | Everything inside appears neat and tidy , with no unsightly blobs of glue apparent around the kerfing . |
| 22 | Also , where the company subsequent to granting a floating charge containing a negative pledge provision purchases property leaving part of the purchase secured by a mortgage , the mortgage will take priority , even if the mortgage has actual notice so long as what the company acquired was the equity of redemption subject to the mortgage . |
| 23 | His father , Sir George Clark Hutchison , KC , represented the parliamentary seat of North Midlothian in the 1920s and his brother , Sir Ian Clark Hutchison , was the MP for West Edinburgh from 1941-59 . |
| 24 | In The Soldier 's Return ( 1902 ) , a returning warrior rescues his mother from the workhouse , while the demobbed soldier of A Reservist before the War and after the War ( 1902 ) steals a loaf of bread in order to supply the needs of his destitute wife and children . |
| 25 | Gardner , like other Oxford Anglicans , resisted ‘ the religious and missionary approach to the study of literature evident in the Newbolt report and the Cambridge pioneers . |
| 26 | We are currently engaged in a major study of auditors active in the UK listed company market from 1987 to 1992 . |
| 27 | The answer is that it simply is not necessary to hold a stock of money equal to the flow of spending . |
| 28 | A report by government economists , published on Jan. 2 , 1990 , noted that in May 1989 many state-owned enterprises had faced acute shortages of capital due to the unsalability of stock worth more than 1,000,000 million dong . |
| 29 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 30 | Alistair McAlpine became Lord McAlpine of West Green in the year that his firm donated £43,000 . |