Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 Although this is not easy , because comparisons are often made upon data emerging from different initial observations as well as different responses , it does seem to provide an approach whereby the effects of learning can be discerned and differences between the judgments of experts and the inexperienced identified .
2 From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively .
3 For that reason we include information about the activities of Convocation and the Association of Alumni .
4 This not only protects staff against abuse or attack , but it is also capable of recording the activities of staff and the transactions that take place .
5 Alternatively , in attempts to deprive antislavery of the dynamic of evangelism , it was sometimes argued that the task of evangelising and civilising Africans , whether in Africa or the Americas , necessitated the disciplines of slavery and the slave trade rather than being a reason for abolition or emancipation .
6 The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience .
7 The forms of communication and the subjects thought proper for comment by members of the academic community also widen through time .
8 The barrier to this is not so much their intellectual capability , but the social stigma of their handicap , which may affect the attitudes of teachers and the parents of other children .
9 Moving from the elements of primitive worship to the rituals of Christianity and the chants of the London music hall , Eliot tried to strengthen his city against dangers of contemporary politics .
10 This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ :
11 In the course of 1921 the programmes of Labour and the Alliance contained nothing that was new .
12 Does this mean that the institutions of marriage and the family are breaking down ?
13 Out of sex and love , for example , grows the institutions of marriage and the family .
14 The government or political executive has as its instrument for the business of governing , the administration or bureaucracy , which extends through the ministries and departments , to a variety of institutions such as public corporations , banks , and others ( particularly the institutions of education and the media ) .
15 One explanation for the mechanism might be that the experience of unemployment leads to a generalized lack of trust in the institutions of authority and the state , which in turn makes people prepared to contemplate breaking the law .
16 Those who are alienated from the institutions of authority and the state are certainly more prepared to break the law than those who are not ; among those who have been unemployed , the effect is +0.140 , and among those who have not it is +0.171 , an average effect of +0.155 .
17 This did not occur here ; the experience of unemployment can not be interpreted as causing preparedness to break the law by altering respondent 's general level of trust in the institutions of authority and the state .
18 By a farcical inversion of football 's heightened history , Scotland has turned its back on triumph and measures its footballing encounters by the barometers of disaster and The most memorable in Scottish football are defined by calamity rather than magic .
19 In the light of these unities , it seems necessary to postulate a systematic set of relationships between the patterns of memory and the sense of ‘ 1 ’ , the qualitative interior of mental experience .
20 Of course the structure and function of our medical services must change to meet — even better , to anticipate — changes in the patterns of disease and the emergence of new methods to deal with them .
21 Is not it beyond the realms of possibility that the Secretary of State and railway management have got it wrong on this occasion ?
22 Erm , would anyone like to , to give er , the final word on er , what the present view on on er , the dangers of smoking and the effect of smoking on your health ?
23 No warnings were issued to consumers because earlier advice from the Department of Health about the dangers of salmonella and the importance of cooking eggs thoroughly , was felt to be sufficient , the ministry said .
24 These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature .
25 The object of the present volume is : to indicate the character and approximately , the extent of the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit ; to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which , on a large scale , interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the inorganic world ; to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies and the material improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and incidentally , to illustrate the doctrine , that man is , in both kind and degree , a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life , which , like him , are nourished at the table of bounteous nature .
26 In many instances social workers picked up practical points such as those mentioned above , and dealt with them immediately : arrangements were hastily made to provide counselling for those young people who were unaware of the dangers of AIDS and the importance of using contraceptives .
27 The successful candidates more than the unsuccessful ones tend to be middle-aged , university-educated ( as well as public school-educated , in the case of Conservatives ) , and drawn from the ranks of business and the professions .
28 The dogs were allowed to drag their handlers closer to the ranks of men as the roll-call was made .
29 Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention .
30 The views of Bath and the surrounding hills from the rear of this beautiful Georgian house are quite wonderful .
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