Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would seem from these comments that Hitler 's association with the solution of the ‘ Jewish problem ’ was regarded as a highly positive attribute in the eyes of mainly the ‘ politically active ’ part of the population which formed the bulk of the film 's viewers , but that among ‘ ordinary ’ Germans there was also a considerable degree of disinterest in the ‘ Jewish Question , . |
| 7 | Conspicuous in the Cupids mosaic , for example , are the seabeasts of the semi-roundels , comparable — if not identical — representations of which are to be seen in the semi-roundels adjacent to the central squares of both the Fishbourne and Cirencester ( Dyer Street ) mosaics . |
| 8 | The tutors of both the District and the Cambridge Board were much praised and a particularly handsome tribute was paid to the District 's vision in expanding its activities in the county during the war to create a network of classes throughout the area . |
| 9 | Unfortunately it is the latter doctrine which dominates present-day thinking in the Western democracies , not only in the political parties of both the right and the left but also among most of you who are likely to be reading this book . |
| 10 | Opposition parties of both the right and left joined with the unions in calling for an independent inquiry into the Fez incidents . |
| 11 | Opposition parties of both the left and the right accused the government of surrendering to the dictates of the World Bank and the IMF , but on March 9 the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) approved by a simple voice vote the government 's sweeping economic reforms , as detailed in the budget , which aimed at opening up the country 's protected economy . |
| 12 | It has shown how effectively a locally based curriculum unit can devise and produce trial materials using the strengths of both the university and the school system . |
| 13 | After receiving alarmist reports from the heads of both the Second and Third Departments , on 27 February / 11 March 1848 Nicholas set up a committee under Menshikov to recommend ways of limiting the circulation of unwelcome ideas . |
| 14 | In these the concentration can be changed in situ , whereas fresh solution concentrations of exactly the same volume must be introduced for each measurement in the non dilution Cannon-Fenske . |
| 15 | Alternatively , these parameters may change over time , and solutions of essentially the same problem at different time periods may be required . |
| 16 | Another new political party , the National Democratic Party , combining former members of the Jatiya Party and leading supporters of both the Awami League and the BNP , was launched on Sept. 10 by two former ministers under Ershad , Salahuddin Kadar Choudhury and Anwar Zahid , who had resigned on Jan. 21 , 1988 ( see p. 35836 ) . |
| 17 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 18 | In the middle of the century there was no agreement on the formulae of even the simpler chemical compounds , and many chemists felt that an atomic theory was merely a distraction : that chemists ought to stick at the ‘ equivalent weights ’ which gave accurate recipes , and not bother with attempts at explanation . |
| 19 | The claimed benefits include rapid identification and isolation of faulty local network segments , dynamic control of network capacity , and integrated monitoring of performance parameters of both the internetwork and the local network . |
| 20 | The claimed benefits include rapid identification and isolation of faulty local network segments , dynamic control of network capacity , and integrated monitoring of performance parameters of both the internet and local network . |
| 21 | To be fully implemented the agreement required confirmation by a two-thirds majority in the Senates of both the USA and the Philippines . |
| 22 | Before leaving Moscow for Lithuania Gorbachev met on Jan. 4 and 6 with the leaderships of both the CPL and the rival " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( created in December by a breakaway faction supporting unity with the CPSU — ibid . ) . |
| 23 | Humberto Celli , president of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , announced on May 22 that the leaderships of both the AD and the main opposition Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) had agreed the previous day on a joint " platform of understanding " . |
| 24 | I found Pion to be most eager to discuss any and all aspects of both the physical and metaphysical universe . |
| 25 | Instead , he developed a concept of the rule of law , drawing on aspects of both the ancient and modern conceptions , which seemed incompatible with the extensive use of these governmental powers . |
| 26 | The Sleipner field has reserves of roughly the same size as the depleting Frigg field , ( some 200 billion cu.metres ( 222 MTOE ) , with the addition of 250 million barrels of condensates . |
| 27 | The contractions recorded were of varying amplitudes , and Cook et al 's tracings show good reproduction by the open tipped tube recordings of both the shape and amplitudeof contractions measured from the serosal strain gauges throughout a wide range of amplitudes . |
| 28 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 29 | After raising his score to twenty-nine and now uniquely entitled to wear the ribbons of both the DSO and the DFC , each with two silver rosettes denoting two bars , Braham 's luck ran out over Denmark on 25 June 1944 . |
| 30 | There are several good accounts of both the history and the methodology of the project , and though the survey arose out of a very particular set of circumstances which may seem alien to many of us , the underlying values and the problems which spring from the lack of accountability to the resident community of the relatively small set of people who own and control the land has very important lessons for every country . |