Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 2 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 3 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 4 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 5 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 6 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 7 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 8 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 9 | Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered . |
| 10 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 11 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 12 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 13 | In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | At a higher level of intensity again the treaty may amount to the attempted bestowal of a right or the imposition of an obligation upon a third party . |
| 15 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 16 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 17 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 18 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 19 | Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label . |
| 20 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 21 | ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home . |
| 22 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 23 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 24 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 25 | In the case of ANLT however the number of parses suggested can be excessive ( e.g. ‘ I enter orders until the markets close ’ produced 4,848 different parses ) |
| 26 | Work out the times of day when the desire for a cigarette is most likely to undermine your good intentions , and be prepared . |
| 27 | If the case raised factual issues , then the fact-oriented procedure should be allowed unless there were compelling reasons of time why the extra delay this would cause was unacceptable . |
| 28 | As the use of equity based financing mechanisms reduces the degree of inequality of allocation nationally the potential benefits to be derived from developing increasingly elaborate models for allocation are likely to be small . |
| 29 | There are more living arthropod species than all other phyla combined ; if diversity is a measure of success then the arthropods are the easy winners . |
| 30 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |