Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 2 | There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town . |
| 3 | He was also greatly assisted by the co-operation of both the Shipbuilders Association of Japan and by the Japan Shipowners Association . |
| 4 | Similarly no one who has attended the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will deny that the seminars and lectures are less profitable than driving to Glencar , or Gort , and walking in those places , or wandering in the demesne of Lissadell and under the shoulder of Ben Bulben . |
| 5 | A superiority in either the perception of shape or in the perception of direction , if in fact these functions are dissociable , can account for the left hand advantage in Braille reading found for both experienced blind subjects ( Hermelin & O'Connor , 1971 ) and blindfolded normal subjects ( Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Harriman and Castell , 1979 ) taught to read Braille . |
| 6 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 7 | It is important to note that the source of information , either for the extraction of n-grams or for the creation of a lexicon , requires careful consideration . |
| 8 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 9 | At the meeting the 41-member council recommended constitutional and party statute amendments which would delete references to the party as the " ruling political force of society and of the state " . |
| 10 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 11 | It is measured in the repossession of houses and in the lack of new house starts . |
| 12 | coding methods may be constrained by methods of input and by the amount of main memory available to a system ; |
| 13 | Any other arrestable offence may be serious if its commission has led to or is likely to lead to : ( a ) serious harm to the security of the state or public order ; ( b ) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( c ) death ; ( d ) serious injury ; ( e ) substantial financial gain or serious financial loss . |
| 14 | Section 38(1) allows this : ( I ) if necessary to substantiate a name or address ; ( 2 ) if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing this is necessary : ( i ) for the suspect 's own protection ; ( ii ) to prevent him from causing physical injury to any other person ; ( iii ) to prevent loss or damage to property ; ( iv ) to ensure his appearance in court ; ( v ) to prevent interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( vi ) juveniles can also be detained in custody if the custody officer believes this to be in the juvenile 's own interests . |
| 15 | He continued to the outskirts of town and through the gates that led the half-mile to Destayala . |
| 16 | A protracted investigation into fraud at the Banco Ambrosiano came to a close on April 16 when Carlo De Benedetti , president of Olivetti and of the holding company CIR ( Compagnie Industriali Riunite ) , was sentenced to six years and four months in prison . |
| 17 | Thomas 's view of the pope as the dispenser of justice and of the cardinals as influential advisers within the papal circle accords with other accounts of the period . |
| 18 | There are fine views across the Firth of Forth and to the Forth Road and Rail Bridges . |
| 19 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 20 | He would have been saddened by the closure of Kelham and by the decline in numbers at similar Anglican institutions . |
| 21 | I suffered acutely , both from the gradual loss of faith and from the necessity of silence . |
| 22 | His lectures became notable and popular ; he had a command of words and of the crisp phrase . |
| 23 | These patients received treatment for H pylori infection and returned for endoscopy to investigate either the result of treatment or for the purpose of this study . |
| 24 | They concern the rise and fall of people 's reputations , whether in the eyes of others or of the individual concerned . |
| 25 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 26 | Those who are not teachers , whether they are concerned with the good of society or with the good of certain individual children , will even more certainly look to what happens after school if they are to be satisfied with what goes on in school itself . |
| 27 | This review is done every year and leads to the publication of a Programme of Work and to the setting up of module development groups made up of industrial , commercial and education representatives . |
| 28 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 29 | The background to this debate , and clearly the cause of this debate , involves the great change — or different kinds of change — taking place across the continent of Europe and within the European Community . |
| 30 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |