Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 On Nov. 5 Chiluba launched a major reorganization of both the civil service and parastatal organizations .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 While approaching the Firth of Forth the ship took on a lot of water during bad weather .
11 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 )
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Annexation and the incorporation of both the indigenous and refugee Palestinians created a fundamental instability in the new kingdom .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The function of a number of body systems is affected as a result of both the generalised tissue oedema and hypotension .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Having read it , I am convinced it is by far the most important study of both the man and the scientist .
27 APPLICATIONS FOR CREDITS FOR AREAS OF STUDY OF EITHER THE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE OR THE PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA PROGRAMME
28 A study of how the various crofting communities handled these pressures , outside the law and largely by ignoring it , might be instructive in the field of human relationships to which I have referred , but it would be difficult now to carry it out because that period in crofting has passed into history .
29 The discussion focuses primarily on Jones 's study of how the two main channels described first the instigation , then the escalation of the disorder .
30 This is a study of how the speed of technology change interacts with the development of market structure .
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