Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [vb -s] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kooyonga 's three-quarter length defeat of Zaahi sets up a possible clash with top three-year-olds St Jovite , Dr Devious , All At Sea and Muhtarram , as well as Saturday 's Nassau Stakes winner Ruby Tiger . |
| 2 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 3 | This now historic photograph of Leeds shows how the nineteenth-century terraced houses were fitted into the pre-existing pattern of fields . |
| 4 | Acceptance of the criterion of examinability affects both the content and form of the knowledge presented but carries with it the guarantee of high status . |
| 5 | A puff of snow bursts where the birches brood ; |
| 6 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 7 | It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) . |
| 8 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 9 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 10 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
| 11 | That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’ |
| 12 | The third kind of request relates both the locational properties of spatial entities and their attributes : for example , pick out those regions of type X which have among their neighbours at least one region of type Y. List those states of the USA which have more than 1000 kilometres of Interstate highway . |
| 13 | ‘ People in Bavaria say it is crazy not to have tall cylindro-conicals in a wholly ultra-modern brewery , ’ says Brombach , ‘ but I think that kind of vessel sets up a convection that makes for dirty beer . ’ |
| 14 | Any kind of injury brings forth the repairing response , happily for us . |
| 15 | The show also had a majority of male acts so a female comic was perfect . |
| 16 | ( The University of London has both a principal and a vice chancellor . ) |
| 17 | The case of Sartre demonstrates why the assertion of ‘ history ’ against structuralism and poststructuralism must always remain problematical . |
| 18 | The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers . |
| 19 | In the first of their works which deals with this topic at any length , The German Ideology , written in 1846 , they state on page 43 : ‘ The various stages of development in the division of labour are just so many different forms of ownership , i.e. the existing stage in the division of labour determines also the relations of individuals to one another with reference to the material , instrument and product of labour . ’ |
| 20 | The real work of acting takes on a different dimension . |
| 21 | In 1878 Frobenius showed that relinquishing the commutative law of multiplication adds only the quaternions to the list , and using algebraic topology Bott , Milnor and Kervaire showed , in 1957 , that relinquishing in addition the associative law adds only the Cayley numbers . |
| 22 | And in the pine-clad kitchen littered with baby 's bottles , an icon of Jesus hangs on the wall . |
| 23 | A mindless act of violence sets off a chilling , psychologically tense tale . |
| 24 | When compared to the surface area of the undergravel filter this type of filter has only a very small , and therefore restricted filtering area , usually made of sponge , and would need very regular attention if employed in the large cichlid community tank . |
| 25 | Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data . |
| 26 | A woman bent with a bundle of vegetables passes along a stony path . |
| 27 | That Superbrain with a quarter megabyte of memory has only a finite life and then any records and software dedicated to its operating system is material for the e-paleographers . |
| 28 | Some scientists feel the ease of access brings forward the point of communication , others that the typing element slows it . |
| 29 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
| 30 | In the course of his rectorial address at Edinburgh in 1907 , Haldane asserted that " when a leader of Ingenious comes forward the people may bow down before him , and surrender their wills , and eagerly obey " , since " to obey the commanding voice was to rise to a further and wider outlook , and to gain a fresh purpose " . |