Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This same lack of support was apparent in the Chart Show 's refusal to play the Too Funky video . |
| 2 | On the face of it , the absence of joint obligations of payment was inconsistent with the existence of a joint tenancy . |
| 3 | In contrast , east Thurso ( with no cases ) may be seen as resembling the urban areas in our study in which the incidence of leukaemia was unaffected by the oil industry . |
| 4 | ‘ We think the Ministry of Defence was negligent in the way they looked after this young man . |
| 5 | Hokus Pokus fried brains when it came out — the level of skating was incredible for the time . |
| 6 | The psychology of adolescence was crucial to the enterprise because it offered the possibility , indeed , the likelihood of change ; it was grist to the mill of those whom Peter Clarke has termed ‘ moral ’ as opposed to ‘ mechanist ’ reformers . |
| 7 | Overall the level of settlement was disappointing as the summary on the paper recalls . |
| 8 | They asked what kind of damage was foreseeable as a result of the breach of duty . |
| 9 | The question of the availability of severance was crucial in the recent case of Sadler v Imperial Life Assurance Co of Canada Ltd [ 1988 ] IRLR 388 , the facts of which are set out in para 1.1 of this chapter . |
| 10 | Jack The Lad , of course was right in the shit for smoking on school premises . |
| 11 | Everett was convinced that part of the lack of enthusiasm was due to the fact the paper would actively support Labour . |
| 12 | The quality of football was high in the first half . |
| 13 | It was therefore natural for Keynes 's interpreters to infer that the supply curve of labour was horizontal at an arbitrarily given money wage rate for all levels of employment up to full employment : after all , an implication of the unwillingness of workers to accept a wage cut is that they are refusing to supply their labour at a lower money wage . |
| 14 | The same line of reasoning was applicable to the admissibility of evidence relating to previous agreements . |
| 15 | The effect of this policy on the cost of living was evident from a report in August 1991 by the National Statistical Commission that consumer prices had risen by 144 per cent since October 1990 . |
| 16 | It has been argued that at this stage ‘ the growth of Protestantism was far from a major problem ’ ; its spread , and the numbers involved , were very limited . |
| 17 | With the former it was the animal health aspect , whilst the high cost of maintenance was uppermost in the minds of those mentioning machinery . |
| 18 | The fact that the region of divergence was close to the functionally important ATP binding site suggested that any isoforms in this region may be important in defining the contractile properties of smooth muscle cells . |
| 19 | The Privy Council reversed the decision , stating that provided fire damage was foreseeable as a kind of damage , the degree of likelihood was irrelevant to the question of kind of damage suffered . |
| 20 | What was true of Methodism was true of the other churches in the town and district , and in the county as a whole . |
| 21 | Yet last month that out-pouring of patriotism was muted during the Irish match . |
| 22 | This process of identification was crucial to the entire revolutionary ethos . |
| 23 | The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . |
| 24 | The response of the COS to recognition that a proportion of poverty was due to the overstocked state of the labour market was to try to ensure that the available jobs went to the respectable and self-helping , who would serve as an example to others . |
| 25 | This , in my opinion , was fairly general in Burma and the smaller level of bribery was due to the influence of Buddhism . |
| 26 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 27 | The idea of Gods as metaphors for the principles underlying the forces of nature was central to the abstract nature of the Indian mind and imbued their philosophy and mythology with a lyricism and beauty foreign to our twentieth-century sensibilities . |
| 28 | The unsatisfactoriness of the competing claims of various philosophers first led him to the belief that scientific knowledge of nature was unattainable by the human mind . |
| 29 | The kingdom of Heaven was present in the sense that God guided his people at all times . |
| 30 | The question was whether the basic rate of tax was payable on the whole £100 or on only £90 . |