Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial and business orientation which the public corporation ( as distinct from Ministry ) form of management was designed to preserve , was inevitably diluted by this process , though it remained an important part of the self-image of those working in the industry . |
| 2 | By the mid 1850S , for instance , only 5 per cent of London 's milk arrived by train , and the bulk of that carried by the Eastern Counties Railway . |
| 3 | In the US election , commentators are bemoaning the lack of international issues , but they are still markedly more present than here : President George Bush and Bill Clinton are arguing over how and when to help the former Soviet states , Clinton is proposing to allow Japan and Germany on to the Security Council of the UN , all candidates have a figure for American troop presence in Europe , ranging from Bush 's 150,000 to Jerry Brown 's 1,000 , with a European force of 1,000 stationed in the US . |
| 4 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 5 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
| 6 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 7 | Hits are broken on the show and bands that have n't yet got a record deal are often booked to appear As a result of heavy plugging on The Hitman And Her , Virgin gave Sandra 's Everlasting Love a UK release , but as soon as it went top 40 the programme dropped it , claiming it was not about pop hits . |
| 8 | The irony of this lay in the fact that the Second Crusade was counter-productive in Outremer , embittered relations with Byzantium , and resulted in the deaths of enormous numbers of its participants , particularly those drawn from the non-aristocratic classes . |
| 9 | CRP was added to a final concentration of 0.6 ng/µl , cAMP to a final concentration of 50 µM , CytR was added to a final concentration of 3.3 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 4 and 9 , and a final concentration of 44 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 5 and 10 . |
| 10 | CRP was added to a final concentration of 0.6 ng/µl , cAMP to a final concentration of 50 µM , CytR was added to a final concentration of 3.3 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 4 and 9 , and a final concentration of 44 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 5 and 10 . |
| 11 | In Millom and Dalton-in-Furness , the concentration of iodine-131 fallout on the ground was between 3000 and 10 000 nanocuries per sq.m . |
| 12 | Fresh troops arriving in the spring of 1928 clashed with the Chinese , and continuing Japanese occupation of the Jinan area aroused international protest . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Woolf 's inquiry into the serious disturbances that erupted at Strangeways and other prisons in the Spring of 1990 extended beyond the immediate causes to an examination of such underlying factors as prison overcrowding , conditions and regimes , and policies towards remand prisoners . |
| 14 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 15 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 16 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 17 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 18 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 19 | In a referendum held on Sept. 8 in Macedonia 75 per cent of the registered electorate of 1,400,000 went to the polls ; they were boycotted by many of the Albanians who made up 25 per cent of the republic 's population . |
| 20 | In a referendum held on May 19 throughout Croatia , final results showed that 83.6 per cent of the registered electorate of 3,652,225 went to the polls and 93.2 per cent of these voted in favour of the proposal that Croatia , " as a sovereign and independent country which guarantees cultural autonomy and all civic rights to the Serbs and members of other nationalities in Croatia , may with other republics join a confederation of sovereign states " . |
| 21 | Those politicians who were connected with the Administration found that the year 1716 produced a bumper crop of solicitations for the pardon of those implicated in the Rising of the previous year . |
| 22 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 23 | This was an advance from the figure of nineteen claimed by the defence on the pleadings . |
| 24 | ‘ Part of that refers to the ways in which people fall short in their living , which is what we call sin , so it is not simply about that . |
| 25 | Part of this results from the explosion of the student population , which is now a ‘ morphological factor ’ in the social field . |
| 26 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 27 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 29 | have steps been taken to optimise the behavioural response of those affected by the change ; for example , the effect of transfer of work and changes in roles between clerical staff and decision-makers ? |
| 30 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |