Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 2 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 3 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 4 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 5 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 6 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 7 | So , that 's er , really a very different pattern of infections where the virulence factors are not clearly identified . |
| 8 | If those who beneficially own shares are the same in number and identity as the principals in the unincorporated firm of solicitors then the firm and the recognised body will normally be treated as one practice for the purpose of the Indemnity Rules ; i.e. only one contribution , based on one gross fee return , will be payable . |
| 9 | However , is this polarity of values really the case or is it merely a convenient dichotomy for argument 's sake ? |
| 10 | Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary . |
| 11 | Wycliffe was looking back down the slope , over the gorse towards the trees and beyond , to another clump of trees where the slender grey spire of the church rose above them . |
| 12 | ‘ At this time of year when the ground is hard every injury is worse . |
| 13 | ‘ We do a lot of surveillance and at this time of year when the diggers are out it is not really safe for members to venture out without being in contact , ’ he said . |
| 14 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 15 | Even more patchy is Deutsche Grammophon 's ‘ Mozart 's Masterpieces , ’ another set of reissues where the unwary consumer may find himself with the superb piano artistry of Maurizio Pollini for one concerto , but the rather less impressive playing of Friedrich Gulda for another . |
| 16 | Figure 6.5a shows the thin pointed region through which trajectories leave B if they start inside the rectangle ABCD on the top face of B. Combining eqn ( 6.4 ) with ( 6.3 ) we obtain where ( 0 , n* ) is the point on the top face of B where the unstable manifold of the origin returns to the stable manifold of the origin when r = r* . |
| 17 | If a reasonable man would believe that there was a real likelihood of bias then the decision is overturned ; surmise or conjecture is insufficient . |
| 18 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 19 | Afterwards a rickshaw driver hauls him off to the City of Joy , a vast area of slums where the matronly Joan Bethel ( Pauline Collins ) runs a school . |
| 20 | Straining his eyes , Faisal could just see a tiny cluster of lights where the colonies were rising above the hidden bulk of Africa . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it is a sad state of affairs when the profits from drinks and ice cream come before Shakespeare . |
| 22 | But if the Devil has no reality or active role in the divine drama of salvation then the vision of the Great Battle is lost . |
| 23 | It was hard to stop the sudden rush of emotion just the mention of his name could provoke , but she did her best . |
| 24 | While there a large number of cases where the victims are juveniles , there are many others where the newspapers would be allowed by law to identify the victim . |
| 25 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 26 | Thus Article 92 provided for aid by member states " to promote the economic development of areas where the standard of living is abnormally low , or where there is serious underemployment " provided that such aid did not " adversely affect trading conditions " . |
| 27 | The affair provoked a deep division of views when the case reached the Law Lords in July 1987 . |
| 28 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 29 | I took the train to Fontainbleau , and to Versailles , and saw there the famous Hall of Mirrors where the notorious Treaty was signed which set Germany on the path to Hitler 's domination and the Second World War . |
| 30 | There is , however , one further disruptive interpretation that can be made , rendering Chaucer 's Shipman 's Tale as fabliau taken to an ultimate , self-destructive point of fulfilment where the dichotomy between the witty trickster and the deluded target figure collapses . |