Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context .
2 In a number of countries including France and Italy , it is also apparent that a good deal of prominence attaches to the central union federations .
3 In industry it often happens that a great deal of thought goes into the design of a project , when the real problem is finding the right person to run the project .
4 In the first half of 1991 , however , restrictions were progressively eased , starting with a lifting of credit controls by the central bank on Jan. 1 .
5 When a bright ring of solder appears at the end of the fitting , the joint is made .
6 The speed of breakdown depends upon the composition of the wastes , the availability of air and moisture , temperature , and the presence of the right soil fauna and flora .
7 This has resulted : from a succession of negotiating rounds within the framework of GATT to reduce tariff levels on a wide range of imports ( with important exceptions ) ; from the policies the IMF and , more recently , the World Bank and other aid agencies have imposed on poor countries to liberalize imports ; and from the policies several countries have pursued ( especially under World Bank tutelage ) to expand their export sectors .
8 If the notion of the sufficiency of love leads to the neglect of social training , it is likely that the young plant ( to continue the metaphor ) will be blighted .
9 Loss of bitterness depends on the boiling conditions , on the degree , type and time of trub formation and on the yeast action in fermentation .
10 This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation .
11 In the USA , Morrill 's report on the beginnings of a $15m. study into the possible radiation doses received as result of radiation releases by the Hanford ( Washington State ) nuclear complex would seem to cry out for GIS skills to be applied ( Morrill 1989 ) .
12 Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing .
13 This programme of research focuses on the survey interview itself .
14 The whole irony of war lies in the fact that the persons who get hurt most are the inoffensive and the helpless .
15 A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them .
16 A central question noted by Levinson ( 1983 ) is whether the study of deixis belongs to the domain of pragmatics or semantics .
17 Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war .
18 Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector .
19 It is only a slight exaggeration to say that , at this extraordinary historical moment , the future of Poland depends on the Germans ; the future of Europe depends on each behaving a little more like the other .
20 THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate .
21 Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems .
22 Such research of course suffers from the problem that there is no suitable control in terms of memory for more mundane events , nor are there adequate methods for actually determining the accuracy of the memories reported .
23 Whichever basis or mix of bases leads to the establishment of those beliefs , they become embedded in the individual and organizational consciousness as ‘ pre-existing ’ knowledge systems which are used to interpret events as they occur .
24 Mrs Fellows was referred to the physiotherapist for teaching and practice of leg exercises before the operation .
25 The second piece of evidence lies in the field of attitude change .
26 In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway .
27 The other real piece of gentrification relates to the development of the Dockwray Square site in the east end of North Shields , a dramatic location looking over Shields harbour .
28 To work with a large and complex piece of machinery demonstrates to the rest of the world that the farm worker is both skilled and in the vanguard of scientific progress .
29 A piece of paper comes over the pine counter with five numbers on it .
30 And the burning of wood contributes to the greenhouse effect .
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