Example sentences of "of [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 In the Forest of Dean the warden levied cheminage , not only on loads of wood , but also on sea coal and iron ore carried ‘ through the forest towards Gloucester ’ .
2 In the Forest of Dean the verderers sat with the deputy Constable of St Briavels to hold attachment courts at Kensley every six weeks ; fines were imposed for hunting with long bows , and for offences against the vert such as cutting great branches , rooting up hollies , hawthorns and hazels , and collecting ‘ Oke-cornes ’ .
3 But in Braydon Forest , for example , the free tenants and village representatives showed reluctance to attend , and in the Forest of Dean the attachment court , by now called the ‘ speech court ’ , was ineffective in the face of large-scale destruction of the vert by the ironmasters .
4 In the Forest of Dean the A-forty eight near Chepstow is closed .
5 as if to underline fears about new diseases from Europe , that symbol of unity the Channel tunnel has been fitted with electronic fox traps to prevent that most dreaded of diseases , rabies .
6 During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime .
7 Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match .
8 Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) .
9 Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident .
10 Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 .
11 The palace of Anurion the Green , for example , is surrounded by terraced gardens containing many strange and exotic plants , some carnivorous , some sentient , some both .
12 And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power .
13 At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards .
14 They could find out what kind of support the Irish comrades would accept .
15 ‘ Support one day can turn into lack of support the next . ’
16 If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled .
17 In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity .
18 We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point .
19 A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down .
20 For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare .
21 However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced .
22 For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons .
23 The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing .
24 Unlike Weber , therefore , who argues that in advanced industrialised societies representative democracy is for a variety of reasons the best available method by which to recruit political leaders , Schumpeter has little interest in recommending political participation for any reason .
25 It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes .
26 I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case .
27 Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list .
28 With that backdrop of hair the small round shoulders gained in defencelessness and pallor — but come on , the Isles was no place for local contrasts .
29 Motherwell should beat Partick at Fir Park to leapfrog into ninth place while in the battle of Brockville the losers of the Falkirk v Airdrie match will , realistically , have little chance of avoiding the drop .
30 Montage always ‘ places the spectator 's look in question , ( it ) poses the question of its constitution , and makes the institution of cinema the question of every film ’ .
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