Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] of [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Culler 's brand of structuralism recasts the codes and conventions of structuralist poetics as a form of ‘ literary competence ’ that the reader has mastered or internalised before he or she approaches the text , and which can then be adduced as an explanation for the particular interpretation that s/he then gives of it . |
| 2 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |
| 3 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 4 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 5 | Labour 's stronghold of Strathclyde has the worst schools in Scotland . |
| 6 | Professor Charles Robertson of Strathclyde University 's department of architecture confirmed the gloomy prognosis . |
| 7 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 8 | Inevitably , Saturday 's rout of Wales evoked the 1951 match but , though the difference was only one point , the matches had little else in common . |
| 9 | Plato 's characterization of Thrasymachus inaugurates the tradition of ‘ political realism ’ in Western political philosophy . |
| 10 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 11 | It may be preferable from the warrantor 's point of view to use the subjective phrase ‘ so far as he is aware ’ to reduce the risk of constructive knowledge . |
| 12 | Charles 's avoidance of battle denied the English their chance of victory , but he could not succeed in driving the English out of their strongholds around Calais and Bordeaux which they had the will and the resources to defend . |
| 13 | If picture-books are for young children , then what is one to make of , for example , Charles Keeping 's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs ' Fungus the bogeyman ? |
| 14 | Lukács 's concept of reification extends the theory of ideology by showing one of the mechanisms by which it is effective in obscuring class relations . |
| 15 | In February 1940 he had raised the possibility with Read of starting a group of " Anglo-French " intellectuals , with headquarters both in London and Paris , but Hitler 's invasion of France rendered the idea inoperable . |
| 16 | But the troubles of the industry began well before Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait sent the price of jet fuel from 60 cents a gallon to more than $1.30 . |
| 17 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 18 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 19 | the working party should meet again in March to refine its thinking and , perhaps , invite the WTB 's Head of Policy to join the meeting at some point ; |
| 20 | Although in no sense a general theory , Foucault 's notion of power reformulates the problem of agency and determinism which had beset Sartre and many others by focusing on the possibility of making intelligible the strategies and techniques of local operations of power without relying on the dialectic of ideology and the consciousness of subjects , or on their corollary , the assumption that power operates globally and homogeneously . |
| 21 | Darwin 's theory of evolution incorporates the principle of natural selection , which suggests that animals change according to their surroundings , developing adaptations — over several generations — which enhance their ability to survive in particular habitats . |
| 22 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 23 | B. S. Johnson 's collection of memoirs records the great variety in the treatment meted out by hosts — from kindness and generosity to unimaginable cruelty — and how , above all , the behaviour of inner-city children that so horrified Women 's Institute moralisers was frequently a natural and adaptive response to the emotional trauma of family separation and to the strangeness of country life . |
| 24 | Stanley Kauffmann in The New York Times thought , ‘ Dustin Hoffman 's performance of Zoditch has the vitality of the born actor and the fine control of the skilful one . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't be shy — call me Naylor ! ’ he thundered , and suddenly Leith 's sense of humour got the better of her , and she burst out laughing . |
| 26 | Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring scandalised the audiences at its first performance … ten years later it was an established classic . |
| 27 | Local police authorities receive a 50 per-cent grant in respect of police services and Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Constabulary checks the efficiency with which the service is provided . |
| 28 | 3 ) How may Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs assist the Marketer to understand some of the behavioural reasons for consumer demand ? |
| 29 | Shirley Archer 's list of statements illustrates the working-class stress on domesticity : here it is contrasted with Elizabeth Gould 's more typically middle-class capacity to see herself in other terms : |
| 30 | Freud 's analysis of dreaming remains the most influential single account that we have . |