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

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1 If the Earth were to be moved today into the orbit of Venus then the ice caps would melt , the oceans would start to evaporate , the carbonate rocks would begin to yield up CO 2 , and various other surface reservoirs would begin to lose volatiles .
2 The Windscale cloud however , passed over most of the cities of England so the collective dose would be higher .
3 They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors
4 The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world .
5 The position of the casualty was still uncertain , but she had reported that she was somewhere to the west of Burtonport so the lifeboat set course to the NW at full speed , adjusting as necessary for the large swell , and calling the casualty on the VHF radio .
6 He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved .
7 His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way .
8 A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up .
9 respectively , within this volume M is defined as the inverse of L. Then the tensors are defined as the weighted averages of the tensors of each phase r : thus where is the volume concentration of phase r ( that is ) and , by analogy with the isotropic case discussed earlier on p. 115 , are concentration factor tensors such that and where I is the unit tensor .
10 The Factory Inspectorate , part of the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities , responsible for the enforcement of the present health and safety at work laws , would be mainly concerned with the latter , being a source of danger to the health of employees ; the control of odour nuisance , whilst not ignored being accorded a lower priority , as the legal requirements concerning occupational hygiene are mainly orientated towards the degree of risk i.e. the harmful effects on the body , arising out of exposure to toxic materials in the form of fumes , gases and dust .
11 The problem of hypoxia during endoscopy in the elderly has not been addressed since the work of Rozen almost a decade ago before reliable methods of non-invasive arterial oxygen saturation measurement were readily available .
12 Unlike novation , assignment involves the transfer of property namely the rights in relation to a contract which continues to exist and is not extinguished .
13 In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve .
14 Thus , we find that if certain facts must exist before the exercise of judgment then the court will examine whether those facts exist , whether a decision was made upon a proper self direction as to those facts , and whether irrelevant facts were taken into account .
15 The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away .
16 If space A can extend beyond the excursions of B then the contact state becomes : Up to nine zone states , one being two zeros and one non-zero none being three zeros with one excursion stale .
17 When the final scenes were played out in a villa near St Tropez in the South of France just a month ago , I was left open-mouthed at the level of stupidity — or was it arrogance ? — displayed by the Duchess and her balding ‘ financial adviser ’ John Bryan .
18 However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization .
19 Electronic mail makes the importance of context all the clearer .
20 In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times — by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff .
21 Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with .
22 If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong .
23 It was the sort of brooch only a very little boy could admire .
24 advisers , we have known them through the period their firm through the period of time quite a number of years , and we can federate er er testify to their integrity .
25 But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ .
26 Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school .
27 We know from the observations of Herodotus nearly a century later that they were still treating the animal with the utmost respect .
28 At the beginning of March both the USA and the IAEA were pressurizing North Korea to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities to begin before June .
29 Not merely is the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal hardly the most suitable tribunal to determine complex questions of civil law — the pressures on the court 's time aside — but the very fact that this is the Criminal Division carries with it the consequence that whatever we decide can not be the subject of appeal : see section 33 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 .
30 In the Court of Appeal yesterday the National Union of Mineworkers failed to overturn an injunction granted to its South Wales area in May , banning the union from issuing ballot papers for an election for a new national vice-president because of an ‘ unlawful ’ ruling by Mr Arthur Scargill .
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