Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thora is a strong supporter of Help The Aged , and highly indignant that older people are often treated differently the moment they become pensioners . |
| 2 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 3 | The projected campaigns will provide the opportunity to study the work of little-known and undervalued artists like Niccolò Martinelli , called il Trombetta , a late Mannerist follower of the Zuccari , who executed the absidal frescoes in Santa Maria in Aracoeli : ‘ From a cultural point of view the restoration of these works will be of great importance ’ , says the Soprintendente . |
| 4 | I do n't think , I do n't think it will , I think erm certainly from a cultural point of view the questions that comes up of erm in that type of society they think sod this I 'm going hunting , but the fact of the matter is the men . |
| 5 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 6 | I am sure there was a different topic of conversation the following Monday morning at certain South Shropshire hairdressing establishments ! |
| 7 | ‘ In a funny sort of way the injury helped . |
| 8 | With a high value of k the damper housing and rotor are closely coupled , so the effective system inertia is increased by both the housing and damper rotor inertia . |
| 9 | Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror . |
| 10 | Henry married Matilda , sister of the King of Scotland , himself a direct descendant of Alfred the Great , and Henry established a civil service and a centralized exchequer to hold the government of the people together . |
| 11 | I know an American whose child appears to anybody with a bit of common sense to be a perfect reincarnation of Attila the Hun . |
| 12 | This can be achieved by taking one trainee 's answer sheet and summarising in broad terms on a separate sheet of paper the answers given . |
| 13 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 14 | Posters on every lamp post promised a personal appearance of Peter the Panda , representing the Darlington and Stockton Times , but we could n't find him either . |
| 15 | Earlier Pipe Major Iain Grant had entertained passengers and onlookers with a rousing rendition of Scotland the Brave . |
| 16 | By a substituted notice of appeal the local authority appealed against the order for costs . |
| 17 | Arthropods afflicted with Laboulbeniales have a social disease ; in a vast majority of cases the infection is acquired through close contact with another individual carrying mature fungi ready to discharge spores . |
| 18 | A sheikh was summoned and with his authority and before a vast concourse of onlookers the tomb was reopened . |
| 19 | By means of a geodetic network of stations the dynamics of the ice sheet — its rates of forward motion , surface ablation , and upward push against the mountain barrier — has been extensively investigated . |
| 20 | For preference shares issued pre 6.4.73 at a fixed rate of dividend the new rate should be shown . |
| 21 | From a socialist point of view the government was barren , yet incomes policy and fiscal restraint were beginning to produce their intended effects and the expansion of world trade was benefiting the economy . |
| 22 | To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance . |
| 23 | In a large number of cases the egg would develop quite normally into a swimming tadpole and then an adult toad . |
| 24 | In a large number of cases the cover will be restricted to ‘ third party ’ only which is still within the requirements of section 145 above , at ( B ) 7 . |
| 25 | In a large number of cases the licence is issued to a firm , i.e. a limited company , then the company secretary is liable for the misuse of the trade plate on behalf of the company . |
| 26 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 27 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 28 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 29 | Since there is a large number of nerves the number of possible combinations and sequences of stimuli is enormous so it is possible for a system like that , in principle , to produce a very large number of possible reactions . |
| 30 | For motors with a large number of phases the torque reduction at low speeds is less pronounced . |