Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden .
2 Few , however , reflect the kind of commitment to effective professional service which inspired McClellan 's system in the borough of Tottenham in the 1950s .
3 CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years .
4 Not all cases known to the indicator agencies were examined , but only those who were resident in the Borough of Wirral during the specified time period .
5 A well-known Serbian-American historian , Michael Boro Petrovich , considers that the most far-reaching effect of the Ottoman occupation was the isolation of Serbia from the main currents of western thought and western social development .
6 The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) .
7 If , as is very likely , experiments finally prove the ‘ scientific ’ feasibility of fusion in the next few years , there will be plenty of interest in the topic .
8 Another point worth noting , though perhaps less decisive , is the close association of Abdulkerim with the Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasa .
9 Criticism in the 1893 Act regarding the poor status and qualifications of teachers of the deaf led — in 1895 — to the formation of the National Association of Teachers of the Deaf .
10 National Association of Teachers of the Deaf , 1895
11 In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. )
12 Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years .
13 It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour .
14 The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom .
15 This association of societies for the Blind and the Deaf continues to this day in the present building at Centenary House , North Street , Leeds .
16 Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s , just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades .
17 We excluded patients if ( i ) they had had an episode of pneumonia within the past 6 months , ( ii ) they lived in a nursing home or had been admitted to another hospital within the past 2 weeks , and ( iii ) there was subsequent clinical or laboratory evidence of a different diagnosis .
18 Development of any successful national campaign has failed , e.g. the use of ORS to prevent deaths from diarrhoea — the biggest killer of children in the developing world .
19 There was a great deal of space on the new site , but the station was less conveniently situated to the city than the old one had been .
20 At Bethlehem , New Hampshire , the highest village east of the Rockies , the Boston and Maine created a delightful , half-timbered chalet-style building with a great deal of space for the horse-drawn coaches and carriages which conveyed excursionists from the station .
21 Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue .
22 really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders .
23 The mine , with the associated influx of workers , and the demand for materials , must have injected a deal of money into the local economy .
24 This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run .
25 It thus differs from business education whose concern is more broadly based in terms of areas of knowledge and the techniques relevant to business operations , though , of course , there is a good deal of overlap between the two subject areas .
26 We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’
27 Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre .
28 It would certainly create more work for the lawyers but would not add a great deal of protection for the ordinary person .
29 Today 's highly competitive business world requires a great deal of capital at the lowest possible cost .
30 We shall be doing a great deal of work in the coming months to discourage the government from taking a decision which would send book prices soaring and seriously damage the health of the trade . ’
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