Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this anecdotal kind of story the device is , on the whole , pleasing to the reader , even after being caught out by it , and so it is permissible . |
| 2 | Every time he drove along that narrow strip of tarmac the stupidity , lack of taste , destructiveness , wastefulness , limitedness of human beings when left to their own devices was borne in on him . |
| 3 | This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing . |
| 4 | Thus in the theoretical study of language the deference previously accorded to analysis and explanation by the informed observer has been questioned in favour of an uncommitted approach to enquiry , without preconception and without privilege , into the ways in which participants negotiate their own conditions for achieving their purposes . |
| 5 | Under the old law of larceny the thing had to be carried away ( asportation ) . |
| 6 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 7 | After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes . |
| 8 | The projected campaigns will provide the opportunity to study the work of little-known and undervalued artists like Niccolò Martinelli , called il Trombetta , a late Mannerist follower of the Zuccari , who executed the absidal frescoes in Santa Maria in Aracoeli : ‘ From a cultural point of view the restoration of these works will be of great importance ’ , says the Soprintendente . |
| 9 | I do n't think , I do n't think it will , I think erm certainly from a cultural point of view the questions that comes up of erm in that type of society they think sod this I 'm going hunting , but the fact of the matter is the men . |
| 10 | ‘ In a funny sort of way the injury helped . |
| 11 | The white and the gold together shone in holy radiance , and even in the stilted emphasis of embroidery the angel was watchful in its fluttering , heaven-touched thread . |
| 12 | High rate of growth The rate of growth is a measure of the increase in output over a period of time . |
| 13 | I am sure there was a different topic of conversation the following Monday morning at certain South Shropshire hairdressing establishments ! |
| 14 | Like Frank Sutcliffe at Whitby , Louisa lovingly recorded the vanishing way of life the ploughing horses , craftsmen in their dusty workshops , villagers trailing home behind the laden hay wagon , rakes on their shoulders . |
| 15 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 16 | According to the required direction of rotation the cation SHIFTX is loaded with the instruction code to either increment register X ( positive rotation ) or decrement ( negative rotation ) . |
| 17 | But the overall winner of Guide the Brush was Tom Metson of Loughborough , Leics , who said ‘ An original painting would mean a boy remembering the B-17s at Ridgewell and now understanding the sacrifices being made for us all in 1942–1945 ’ . |
| 18 | Despite the difference in overall level of performance the relationship between risk and recognition performance in the two studies was remarkably similar . |
| 19 | In an ill-advised piece of muck-raking the newspaper printed comments by two former Wolves players , the ex-Irish Internationalist Danny Hegan and the former Scottish defender Frankie Munro . |
| 20 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 21 | The fractional increase of volume fv in this case is and the specific volume of free space , or free volume Now if the coefficient of expansion remains constant throughout the entire range of temperature the fractional free volume fv is just . |
| 22 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 23 | He swung one leg over the chair dismounting to replace it , while Gina watched with an aching feeling of sadness the supple play of his muscles , the lithe perfection of his strong body . |
| 24 | For preference shares issued pre 6.4.73 at a fixed rate of dividend the new rate should be shown . |
| 25 | For instance , after she had said I would have remained in ignorance , the tree opens wisdoms way though secret she retire , the word secret catches up almost by a mechanical verbal train of association the thought and on it perhaps secret and then all these uneasy feelings that perhaps God 's so far away , or he was n't watching , or in some way or other he did n't actually see . |
| 26 | By a substituted notice of appeal the local authority appealed against the order for costs . |
| 27 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 28 | So if electrons can move freely in three dimensions , at the absolute zero of temperature the occupied states in k -space form a sphere ( dashed in the Figure ) . |
| 29 | In the real world of politics the distinction between ‘ bias ’ and ‘ commitment ’ is not always clear . |
| 30 | The average amount of sunshine the vines receive annually is only 1,537 hours ( Bordeaux : 2,07I hours ) spread over 289 days . |