Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the system of fixed exchange rates any export of capital affected the reserve position though precisely how depended on the manner in which the investment was financed . |
| 2 | One — extreme — interpretation is that governments suspected communications that they did not control : many an allegation of phone-tapping marked the politics of the Fourth and ( early ) Fifth Republics . |
| 3 | Had his violent loss of temper done the trick after all ? |
| 4 | The programme of privatization involved the sale of the national airline , telecommunications company and shipping line to local and foreign investors . |
| 5 | Readers of this column who can cast their minds back to 1984 may remember a piece of equipment called the Nava Skiing System . |
| 6 | Overnight , Corman wrote the start of a screenplay for a piece of nonsense entitled The Terror and hurriedly the cast went to work the next morning to make use of the sets before they were torn down . |
| 7 | Sheer weight of dollars forced the ARFU to change hose broadcasters and the finer details , such as broadcasting times , have yet to be finalised . |
| 8 | Newsreel coverage of sport paved the way for this . |
| 9 | Main change introduced in the Esprit III programme is a new category of research called the Open Microsystems Initiative ( OMI ) . |
| 10 | Thus the addition of phosphatidylcholine prolonged the nucleation time by two mechanisms : ( A ) shift of biliary cholesterol to the more stable carrier ( non-vesicular ) and ( B ) a decrease in the cholesterol/phospholipids ratio of the metastable carrier ( vesicles ) . |
| 11 | When it fell vacant , one bit of history conditioned the argument . |
| 12 | More emphasis on domestic subjects in the curriculum of secondary school girls was now recommended on the grounds that ‘ every girl should be looked upon as a potential wife and mother ’ , just as the Board of Education promoted the teaching of housewifery , laundry and cookery to working class girls . |
| 13 | The kind of bird called the jacana is one . |
| 14 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 15 | Silver smiles A GREAT variety of activities marked the silver jubilee of the Holy Family Primary School in Sale . |
| 16 | The majority of blacks occupied the most menial and subservient occupational statuses , being employed as agricultural labourers and as unskilled and semi-skilled manual workers in industry . |
| 17 | For the purpose of upkeep the Wall was built approximately three metres east of the true border , creating a strip of land called the Untebaugebiet . |
| 18 | Further to the law on political parties of July 25 , the Ministry of Justice authorized the creation of 10 new political parties during September and October . |
| 19 | The detailed study waits to be written on the way in which developments in the law of certiorati affected the law on natural justice . |
| 20 | The truce of Tours marked the beginning of another brief phase of diplomacy . |
| 21 | An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower . |
| 22 | Under this procedure , each summer a committee of officials called the Public Expenditure Scrutiny Committee ( PESC ) prepares a report forecasting public expenditure over the following five years . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , we should not lose sight of the fact that even such relatively immature communicators in terms of message evaluation — as the seven-year-olds are able to progress with a substantial degree of success given the opportunity to use their negotiating powers . |
| 24 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 25 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 26 | P.H. Sawyer has drawn attention to rune stones in Denmark and Västergötland raised in honour of men accorded the English epithet thegn , and concluded that the latter area was the part of Sweden controlled by Cnut , through agents who received a title borne in England by royal subordinates . |
| 27 | If , in perspective , the loss of the American Empire was the greatest single consequence of the crisis of 1808 , the legacy of the War of Independence moulded the subsequent history of Spain itself . |
| 28 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 29 | There 's a Caribbean island and apparently they just because The men their sort of ancestors invaded the island , all the men and you know they |
| 30 | Erm did you see that th they 're , they 're going to look for some sort of gene called the Churchill factor ? |