Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound . |
| 2 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 3 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot . |
| 6 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 7 | This was another futile pretension of formality , since anyone wanting to buy from Nana 's small , dusty stock of essentials when the window was shuttered simply wandered into the yard and called for attention . |
| 8 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 9 | The Lorne plateau , between Loch Awe and Oban in western Scotland , lies to the north-east of Kilmelford where the Lagalochan intrusive complex has been investigated for copper and gold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 12 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | respectively , within this volume M is defined as the inverse of L. Then the tensors are defined as the weighted averages of the tensors of each phase r : thus where is the volume concentration of phase r ( that is ) and , by analogy with the isotropic case discussed earlier on p. 115 , are concentration factor tensors such that and where I is the unit tensor . |
| 17 | Formal objections are not invited at this consultation stage as a further period will be allowed for the submission of objections when the proposals are formally advertised . |
| 18 | Some very good examples of solution effects may be observed on the coast of Glamorgan where the Carboniferous Limestone emerges as the wavecut platform from beneath Liassic cliffs , for example near Nash Point . |
| 19 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
| 20 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 21 | Could we put on the agenda for a future meeting something called review of guidelines where the , this is exactly the issue . |
| 22 | ‘ No action of damages where the damages claimed consist of or include damages … in respect of personal injuries to any person shall be brought in Scotland against any person unless it is commenced … before the expiration of three years from the date of the act , neglect or default giving rise to the action … |
| 23 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 24 | This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives |
| 25 | All too often the change of conditions when the sale is made and the fish is taken home , is all that is needed finally to send the unfortunate creature to that great big goldfish bowl in the sky . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was against ‘ a very static kind of Wagner where the set is the concept ’ , to the neglect of intellectual excitement and engagement . |
| 29 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 30 | 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 . |