Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 2 | Copious quantities of Champagne wine were consumed by such a large influx of visitors , enabling the vineyards to flourish and the vignerons to prosper , and leading to the export of both the wine and its reputation throughout the growing markets of Europe . |
| 3 | A roomette on The Canadian , when you eventually join it , is slightly under seven foot by three ( which includes a private lav ) with a bed that slides out from the wall ; it thus manages to combine the characteristics of both the womb and the mortuary . |
| 4 | Gould , though , having had from Darwin 's eyewitness account of the bird 's behaviour , subsequently agreed that the Galapagos hawk shared characteristics of both the Polyborus and the Buteos . |
| 5 | In this discussion it has been hard to draw the line between issues that are essentially ‘ characteristics of policy ’ that affect implementation , and points that are really observations about the characteristics of either the relationships between central policy makers and local implementers , or of the organization of the implementing agencies . |
| 6 | On Nov. 5 Chiluba launched a major reorganization of both the civil service and parastatal organizations . |
| 7 | This technique of thinking of how the notes relate to chords is an extremely important improvising and compositional skill , and you 'll find that perseverance produces results that are well worth the effort . |
| 8 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 9 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 10 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 11 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 12 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 13 | While approaching the Firth of Forth the ship took on a lot of water during bad weather . |
| 14 | I felt there was public benefit from offering this type of information by radio and I have asked Media Action to let us have the enquirers ' addresses so that we can get a geographical appreciation of where the calls came from ( one or two came from Fife ) |
| 15 | Crucial to an understanding of the human mosaic , therefore , is appreciation of how the opportunities have been identified and acted upon , and how the barriers posed by the constraints have been tackled . |
| 16 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 17 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 18 | Although this work concerns itself primarily with the organization of knowledge and the production of indexes , catalogues and databases , it is imperative that the indexer should have an appreciation of how the index is to be used . |
| 19 | I 'm wondering if it might be possible for Colonel Blair to have access to the offices of either the Ingard group or the shipping company in some capacity that would n't arouse suspicion . " |
| 20 | Annexation and the incorporation of both the indigenous and refugee Palestinians created a fundamental instability in the new kingdom . |
| 21 | From January 1948 the line formed part of the Western Region of British Railways until the closure of practically the whole line in December 1960 . |
| 22 | However , looking at these changes with the INSET concepts of a later date , it is interesting to note that the four major texts upon the history of curriculum change ( Bernard , 1962 ; Boyd , 1961 ; Gordon and Lawton , 1978 ; Dent , 1982 ) , whilst extensively detailing the changes which were the subject of public intention , make no mention of either the machinery whereby the new ideology was introduced to teachers nor of the effects upon teacher practice in the schools . |
| 23 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |
| 24 | Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 25 | Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 26 | The function of a number of body systems is affected as a result of both the generalised tissue oedema and hypotension . |
| 27 | What , however , should already be evident as a result of both the historical and anthropological materials investigated in this chapter is that , just as with material culture in general , in many social studies ( with the conspicuous exception of economics ) a stress on consumption is a necessary corollary to its previous neglect . |
| 28 | This is probably the result of both the lower volume of distribution and the lower first-pass gastric metabolism of alcohol in women compared with men . |
| 29 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 30 | On the other hand , in the eyes of even the most loyal ministers and the foremost grand dukes and prelates , he was no holy man but a charlatan whose doctrine of ‘ redemption by sin ’ was but a thin veil for crude depravity . |