Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectacle of young people deferring to others and flagrantly performing small selfless acts of charity in the local area leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and gives an entirely distorted view of the standards which obtain at this school . |
| 2 | It is the final stage of machinery for ‘ minor ’ issues that have worked their way up the machinery from other levels , and the first stage for ‘ major ’ issues such as proposed new staffing arrangements or working conditions affecting broad groups of staff throughout the railways . |
| 3 | Correspondence between P.Gordon , S. Rosie , and Councillor Mrs B. Brereton re use of courts after 11.00 pm and destructive activities of children during the day . |
| 4 | Delegates emerging from eight hours of talks by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna said that the proposals could remove up to 1.4 million barrels from the present combined production of about 25 million barrels per day ( bpd ) by cartel members . |
| 5 | The notifiable venereal diseases in Belgium are syphilis , gonorrhoea , chancroid , and LGV , but there is a considerable degree of under-reporting , as witnessed by the official figures for 1975 , which gave a total of 771 cases of gonorrhoea for the whole of Belgium . |
| 6 | Together with this neighbourhood there were strong signs of gentrification in the Mexican War Streets area of Central North Side , the census tract with Historic Designation in Manchester and a single census tract in East Allegheny . |
| 7 | From the passenger 's viewpoint the first things that are different are the plug-type sliding doors , improved welcoming entrance vestibules and a seating layout with some facing pairs of seats in the standard class at tables for four , with others in twos having a face-to-back arrangement . |
| 8 | This type of generalization requires the comparison of maps showing the two spatial patterns of elevation of the terrain above sea-level and the distribution of pine trees over that same terrain . |
| 9 | There are also variations in the temporal and spatial patterns of deforestation in the Indian Himalaya ; in Uttar Pradesh , for example , Tejwani ( 1987a ) reports that forest losses have been extensive and that much of what remains is degraded . |
| 10 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that alkaloid level fluctuations may affect the feeding patterns of orang-utans through the day . |
| 12 | What are the three largest forms of employment for the people of Halifax ? |
| 13 | The next sections will describe some of the broad patterns of change in the composition of the occupational structure and the distribution of income and wealth in Britain in the twentieth century . |
| 14 | This limited reaction against Stalinism and the perversion of Marxist theory to justify Soviet policy-making was strengthened by the growth of more militant European forms of socialism in the mid-1960s . |
| 15 | While overtly and inevitably she accepts women 's subordinate position , there are strong undercurrents of resentment at the restrictions of marriage and at her lost prosperity . |
| 16 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 17 | We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms . |
| 18 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 19 | The most complex and highly evolved forms of colonialism in the insect world are those created by the relations of the wasps and bees , the ants . |
| 20 | By contrast , in the growth sectors of manufacturing and services within the non-metropolitan regions there have been strong tendencies of concentration in the main settlements . |
| 21 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 22 | On 31 July 1988 , after eight months of unrest in the territories , King Husayn formally relinquished his claim to the West Bank , and initiated the administrative steps necessary to sever all those links which implied sovereignty or responsibility for the fate of the territory . |
| 23 | Our sole function is to provide as much information as possible to our member organizations and to the general public on the environmental , social and economic impacts of gold-mining in the north Galway and South Mayo areas . |
| 24 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 25 | The remarkable Ceylonese railway network was built largely as a response to the insatiable demands of tea-planting from the 1880s . |
| 26 | The Treaty on European Union can honestly be regarded as an attempt to respond , in the medium- and long-term , to the economic and political imperatives of Europe in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 27 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 28 | He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand . |
| 29 | I conclude , then , not with stirring words of praise for the philosophy of animal rights , or with caustic words of censure for the other philosophies I have mentioned . |
| 30 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |