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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 4 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 12 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 13 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus , we find that if certain facts must exist before the exercise of judgment then the court will examine whether those facts exist , whether a decision was made upon a proper self direction as to those facts , and whether irrelevant facts were taken into account . |
| 18 | In this case the same precautions apply and it is even more important to deal with ownership of copyright otherwise the agency ( as employer ) could turn out to be the ultimate owner of the copyright . |
| 19 | The Factory Inspectorate , part of the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities , responsible for the enforcement of the present health and safety at work laws , would be mainly concerned with the latter , being a source of danger to the health of employees ; the control of odour nuisance , whilst not ignored being accorded a lower priority , as the legal requirements concerning occupational hygiene are mainly orientated towards the degree of risk i.e. the harmful effects on the body , arising out of exposure to toxic materials in the form of fumes , gases and dust . |
| 20 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 21 | Unlike novation , assignment involves the transfer of property namely the rights in relation to a contract which continues to exist and is not extinguished . |
| 22 | If a reasonable man would believe that there was a real likelihood of bias then the decision is overturned ; surmise or conjecture is insufficient . |
| 23 | If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong . |
| 24 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 25 | Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures . |
| 26 | Electronic mail makes the importance of context all the clearer . |
| 27 | In this last period of devastation even the gorse bruiser and the rest of the Collector 's inventions met their doom . |
| 28 | In the case of the thermal printer it is essential to get the correct grade of paper otherwise the image does not develop properly . |
| 29 | A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice . |
| 30 | However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization . |