Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
| 2 | Unrepentant , Palmer shifted his ground to an attack on the format of the Annual Estimates of Nigeria , which he developed into a campaign for the complete decentralization of the Treasury Department . |
| 3 | They opened premises in the most prestigious part of the town . |
| 4 | Viewed from space , the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet . |
| 5 | The dispute within Solidarity reached its height during the June 29-July 1 meeting of the Solidarity citizens ' committees in Warsaw , at which some observers feared a complete break-up of the union , and at which Michnik publicly appealed to Walesa to step back from a potentially ruinous confrontation with the government . |
| 6 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 7 | In order to locate the variables that might be worthy of study , and to define the variants of the variables , a broad description of the phonological system has to be prepared beforehand . |
| 8 | Accepting this as a broad description of the current state , we now examine some real-time data in order to confirm the direction of change . |
| 9 | This chapter seeks to offer a broad description of the eurobond market ; an economic analysis of its behaviour , microstructure and reasons for location in London ; and an assessment of certain key issues relating to prospects for the eurobond market and its location in London . |
| 10 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 11 | Solicitors are increasingly becoming the dominant branch of the profession despite the historical recognition that they are the junior part of the legal profession . |
| 12 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 13 | The route : a complete crossing of the French Pyrenees from Hendaye-Plage on the Atlantic to Banyuls-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | Most welcomed the general conclusion that " in the longer term , environmental pressures will operate against coal as a primary source of energy " , although many expressed disappointment that the government had not undertaken a more far-reaching assessment of the country 's energy needs and their environmental impact . |
| 15 | Many were , therefore , in positions to take economic advantage of the transport system , which connected them not only with each other but also with major centres . |
| 16 | Marx focuses on the dynamic implications of the conflicting principles which the simultaneous existence of the two institutions , family and descent group , implies . |
| 17 | Prosperous though Lewes was , it shared with the rest of the county in the long-drawn-out agricultural recession of the later fourteenth century and was , for much of the fifteenth century , a shadow of its former glory as the wool trade declined . |
| 18 | Charles feels the strong pull of the Highlands , but Diana seldom stays for long |
| 19 | Ben grimaced , concentrating , inwardly weighing the feel of the boat against the strong pull of the current . |
| 20 | I 'll work in the timid heart of the maid |
| 21 | Russian government members , including Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev , had opposed holding the debate , fearing the possible intensification of the dispute . |
| 22 | The only other theme — which recurs with depressing regularity — is the persistent sinfulness of the people of Israel . |
| 23 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 24 | This is a decline in the normal function of the mind . |
| 25 | It is clearly circular , and not very helpful , to argue that the normal function of the structures concerned is to suppress spasticity . |
| 26 | The aim of the operation is to ablate the diseased bowel while preserving normal function of the anal sphincter . |
| 27 | Here are represented the ‘ International Gothic ’ style of Charles IV 's court — a style that even influenced artists in that bastion of the Renaissance , Florence ; the Mannerist art of the 16 and early 17C ; and Czech Baroque , whose artists vied with those farther west in their range of subject matter and technique . |
| 28 | That bastion of the up and coming English band , The John Peel Show , gave a welcome airing for the inquisitive hundreds . |
| 29 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 30 | Rewarded gifting has the hesitant support of the ethical committee of the Transplantation Society ‘ … paid organ donation must not be condemned out of hand ’ and of the Vedic scholar , Ramakrishna Dikshitar ‘ … even if money changes hands , it is still in keeping with the Hindu belief in helping others ’ . |