Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as experience in family planning programmes throughout the world has shown , a lack of academic knowledge was not the major problem in achieving their modest attainments , but the inability of governments to shift the major socio-economic variables which encourage the continuation of large families . |
| 2 | Furthermore , repeated wars have demonstrated the inability of outsiders to contain the virulence of the conflict once they felt this was desirable , except when the superpowers were both agreed on the necessity to rein in their clients . |
| 3 | The addition of Sheffield brought the total number of UDCs to eleven and the government has stated that there will be no other UDCs before 1992 . |
| 4 | Thus the addition of phosphatidylcholine prolonged the nucleation time by two mechanisms : ( A ) shift of biliary cholesterol to the more stable carrier ( non-vesicular ) and ( B ) a decrease in the cholesterol/phospholipids ratio of the metastable carrier ( vesicles ) . |
| 5 | Glasses containing large amounts of silica melt at very high temperatures ; silica fuses at 1713 o C. The addition of soda has the opposite effect . |
| 6 | An overwhelming majority , 90% , of non-smokers want smoke-free zones at work and in public places , and the majority of smokers support the notion in principle . |
| 7 | After being allowed to feed , the majority of foragers circled the feeder and , in many cases , departed directly for the hive , which was out of sight . |
| 8 | But the majority of Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living the world had ever seen . |
| 9 | It should be remembered that in the majority of cases involving the sale of ‘ family ’ companies , failure to conclude a transaction may place even our TIME based fees in jeopardy as the client simply will not have the funds to pay . |
| 10 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |
| 11 | The majority of blacks occupied the most menial and subservient occupational statuses , being employed as agricultural labourers and as unskilled and semi-skilled manual workers in industry . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 13 | The beach is protected by a reef , and accommodation is in junior suites , each with a split-level bedroom , living room , bathroom with dressing area and balcony , the majority of rooms facing the sea . |
| 14 | Key stage 1 ( ages 5–7 ) ( years 1 and 2 ) : begins on attainment of compulsory school age and ends at the end of the school year in which the majority of pupils reach the age of 7 . |
| 15 | The majority of vehicles pounding the British countryside produce four times their own weight in carbon dioxide every year . |
| 16 | we also feel that the majority of people know the difference between a basket and a trolley . |
| 17 | People who played golf did , of course , and rich people , but the majority of people wore the same sort of clothes all the time . |
| 18 | It is in this area that the majority of people expect the chief executive to have a personal vision of where the company should be going . |
| 19 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 20 | There is no point in developing the demands of civilization to the point where the majority of people find the tensions too great to bear and react , through regression , to the primal horde . |
| 21 | The willingness of painters and poets to improve a prospect through various techniques is related to the ideology of improvement underlying the enclosure movement . |
| 22 | The ideology of amateurism discouraged the notion that sport was an appropriate sphere of state activity . |
| 23 | Peter Wagner has described the ineffectiveness of attempts to mobilise the whole Church by putting the entire membership in the front-line of evangelism ( Wagner 1971 : Chapter 7 ) . |
| 24 | Now the veil of ignorance deprives the persons in the original position of the knowledge that would enable them to choose heteronomous principles . |
| 25 | See also the case Casey v Breachwood Motors Ltd ( Times Law Reports 29 July 1992 ) , where the court lifted the veil of incorporation to allow the plaintiff to proceed against the second company . |
| 26 | THE Prince of Wales left the polo field clutching his back in pain yesterday after suffering a recurrence of an old problem . |
| 27 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Prince of Wales opens the Lintrathen Water Treatment Works , Kirriemuir , Angus ; as President , Scottish Business in the Community , visits the Dundee Enterprise Trust and the Whitfield Estate , Dundee ; Patron , The Renaissance Theatre Company , attends the Premiere of Henry V at the Odeon Cinema , Leicester Square , London WC2 . |
| 28 | First the Princess of Wales opened a new annex to Chelmsford College of Further Education … and secondly , HRH The Prince of Wales opened the exhibition ‘ A Vision of Britain' at the Victoria & Albert Museum , which was designed by David Lloyd-Jones of RMJM . |
| 29 | I had noted the Clifton Suspension Bridge , a few jolly people sitting in the garden , a row of salads in the kitchen — a good photo can make a sprouting alfalfa seed look nouvelle cuisine — and the Prince of Wales signing the visitors ' book . |
| 30 | The variety of models reflects the need to respond to the immediate needs of staff and to work within institutional and financial constraints . |