Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my point of view the interesting bit was meeting so many different people . |
| 2 | I can tell , by the dialects , which part of Ireland the shoppers hail from ; I have wilfully acquired a skill for accents . |
| 3 | Built to last by William Douglas , at a time when the family was in high favour because of its support of Robert the Bruce , the massive red sandstone ruins of Tantallon on its seagirt rock above the mouth of the Forth look virtually unassailable even today . |
| 4 | Based on their level of homology the type III repeats 6–9 form a group as do repeats 3 , 5 , 14 and 15 . |
| 5 | It 's obvious that in their heart of hearts the Japanese do n't really trust calculators . |
| 6 | Relieved of its weight of ice the land too has risen , but many former coastal areas , including sites of human settlement , remain under the sea around present-day northern coasts . |
| 7 | She said during her term of office the organisation 's base in Stockton Road , Middlesbrough , had seen many changes and was now a thriving day centre for people with a visual impairment . |
| 8 | Like kung fu , karate is broken up into many styles , each professing to have within its range of techniques the answer to many combat situations . |
| 9 | After depositing its cargo of arms the plane was loaded up with 25,000 pounds of marijuana and flown to the US Air Force base at Homestead , South Florida . |
| 10 | It will also depend upon which type of promotion the editor is prepared to tolerate in his or her pages , for the choice of medium is as important here as many other parts of the media programme . |
| 11 | In Scotland , once sentence is passed by the court , the prison service takes over , deciding which type of prison the convicted person should go to . |
| 12 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 13 | This may be due to greater familiarity with the cost of lower priced letters or to the greater difficulty of keeping in mind which band of prices the weight related to in the body of the table . |
| 14 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 15 | First , structural linguistics shifts from the study of conscious linguistic phenomena to the study of their unconscious infrastructure ; second it does not treat terms as independent entities , taking instead as its basis of analysis the relations between terms ; third , it introduces the concept of system … ; finally , structural linguistics aims at discovering general laws , either by induction ‘ or … |
| 16 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 17 | In summary , though choice theories appear to take as their point of departure the priority of individual autonomy , when we step beyond their criterion of personal responsibility , as defined by the concept of voluntary consent , to the question of the kinds of obligation which the state will enforce , we find that choice theorists admit that they introduce a style of moral paternalism at odds with liberal values . |
| 18 | From their point of view the results are rather disappointing . |
| 19 | On the contrary , ‘ From their point of view the RUC is now being used as a political force to impose the Anglo-Irish Agreement on an unwilling majority in the province ’ ( Weitzer , 1987:93 ) . |
| 20 | The Gestapo was just about running the Communist party by 1944 , but to do that they 'd have to let some small fry run free , and from their point of view the Eismarks would be very small indeed . |
| 21 | The only thing she omitted was her suspicion of Bryce the handyman . |
| 22 | On their issue , the company removes from its register of members the name of the former registered holder and merely states the fact and date of the issue of the warrant and the number of shares ( or amount of stock ) to which it relates . |
| 23 | ‘ There is no reason why these people can not be integrated within the community and pay their share of rates the same as anyone else . |
| 24 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 25 | With its careful experiments and its use of statistics the Society was , however , doing work not altogether remote from experimental psychology . |
| 26 | ‘ To a certain extent there is already an answer to the question which form of power the people support , ’ he said , adding that opinion polls showed most Russians favoured a presidential system . |
| 27 | A company ( and every officer of it who is in default ) which fails to annex to its memorandum of association the court order sanctioning the scheme is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one-fifth of the statutory maximum ( CA 1985 , s425(4) and Sched 24 ) . |
| 28 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 29 | In order to start drawing useful inferences leading to sensible modifications of the material , we should also keep in mind these points : ( a ) the observer must thoroughly understand the curriculum designer 's aims and objectives and report in relation to these ( b ) it is necessary for the observer to understand how the teacher has interpreted these intentions ( c ) the curriculum designer must thoroughly understand the facts that the observer has brought back to him ; the dialogue that this implies can produce valuable suggestions for improving the unit ( d ) teachers of differing style must be observed and teachers at differing levels of acclimatization to the program must be observed to obtain full data ( e ) it is also important for the observer to understand which stage of development the unit has reached . |
| 30 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |