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

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1 To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information .
2 But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching .
3 Often the encoder is visible ( being within the canonical situation of utterance ) and immediately audible and there takes place a kind of indexical reciprocity whereby the specific quality of a deictic expression is only given by the assignment of the extralinguistic referent .
4 The law of value is a historically relative law ; it is a specific form ‘ on the face of which is writ large ’ that it ‘ belongs to the kind of social structure where the productive process masters ( ‘ hemeistert ’ ) men and not men the productive process ’ .
5 In October–November 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war when the United States suddenly discovered that the USSR was trying to position medium-range missiles in Cuba .
6 ‘ Disposable income ’ is a measure of gross income less the above deductions .
7 New German money flocked to buy jewels , silver and objets de vertu touched with the lustre of German history when the treasures superfluous to requirements of the Fürsts von Thurn und Taxis came under the hammer in Geneva on 17 November .
8 He relied upon the great development that has recently taken place in the law of judicial review whereby the courts have asserted a general jurisdiction to review the decisions of tribunals and inferior courts .
9 A much trodden tourist path leaves Achintee Farm in Glen Nevis and slants upwards to a midway plateau of open ground where the superstructure of the mountain towers .
10 erm So I think you want to regard it not as a sort of glamorous place where the troops were drilling and the drums were beating , but a slightly chaotic and rather dirty place , despite the kings existence .
11 The three had lunch at Al Duomo in Pavilion Buildings , the sort of Italian restaurant where the waiters threaten their customers with giant pepper mills .
12 If we do face a period of declining income then the Council must be prepared to cut its coat according to the cloth available .
13 When you first start to use a program like Ventura or PageMaker there is a period of rapid learning where the basic concepts of the composition program start to become familiar .
14 All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity .
15 The three agencies , the Branches , the commercial agencies and the educational institutions have developed a policy of mutual support whereby the Branches include some academic input in their meetings , the commercial sector provides a more sophisticated programme , and the polytechnics draw upon the strengths and goodwill of their own staff and practitioners to provide seminars at post-graduate level .
16 We can see that in this area of intellectual work even the analysis of concepts carries with it a considerable political and even emotional charge .
17 There is yet another vast area of human experience wherein the need to condense many vague and widely varied beliefs and hopes into a single credible interpretation capable of being incorporated into a definition of ‘ god ’ , which is of immeasurable importance .
18 He indicates that , with the control of premature mortality largely the result of reducing mortality from infectious diseases , the pattern of population morbidity will be dominated by chronic diseases .
19 In short if an application does not know how to make use of expanded memory then the memory remains unused .
20 Nor is the use of rustic speech necessarily the product of a decline in literacy .
21 These studies show that if we can define a population with a high risk of recurrent disease then the outlook may be improved by medical treatment .
22 But it 's still a lot of fun hunting out the highlights , which include a special room with toys and dolls .
23 Where it is a matter of public feeling then the voting system has a place — as a sort of representative jury .
24 However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats .
25 Or , to put the question in terms closer to his own , are the principles enunciated in the system of Absolute Idealism really the truth to which these theological teachings point ?
26 There 's a fourth possibility that we have n't looked at yet and this is a possibility of representative government where the people simply elect lawmakers , the people do n't make laws they elect the people to make laws .
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