Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 2 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 3 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 4 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 5 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 6 | However , is this polarity of values really the case or is it merely a convenient dichotomy for argument 's sake ? |
| 7 | Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary . |
| 8 | Wycliffe was looking back down the slope , over the gorse towards the trees and beyond , to another clump of trees where the slender grey spire of the church rose above them . |
| 9 | ‘ At this time of year when the ground is hard every injury is worse . |
| 10 | ‘ We do a lot of surveillance and at this time of year when the diggers are out it is not really safe for members to venture out without being in contact , ’ he said . |
| 11 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 12 | Even more patchy is Deutsche Grammophon 's ‘ Mozart 's Masterpieces , ’ another set of reissues where the unwary consumer may find himself with the superb piano artistry of Maurizio Pollini for one concerto , but the rather less impressive playing of Friedrich Gulda for another . |
| 13 | The ideological themes and counter-themes may at any one time resemble undeveloped seeds , in that they contain the possibilities for future argumentative responses , including those son of reversals when the Side of the Other is to be taken . |
| 14 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 15 | In the hareem , prayer is as necessary to life as air to breathing , but in Ramadan it reaches to that depth of spirit where the inexplicable lies . |
| 16 | And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot . |
| 17 | Such as the attack which they mounted from the countryside of the city of Chang Sha which is also in this er in the same sort of area where the old er where the Communist Party had had its main strength . |
| 18 | Diversion — bringing up any number of reasons why the treatment of the individual sufferer , or consideration of the secondary effects upon the family , is not the prime problem requiring consideration at this particular time . |