Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was one of the problems with the public perception of women deacons the fact that they did , often , look so like librarians ? |
| 2 | As with any other policy the insurers will commonly require exclusions against the following : ( 1 ) The adequacy of insurance arrangements The view of the insurers is that it should be for the purchaser to determine whether existing insurance cover for the business is adequate and if it is not to increase the level of cover with effect from completion . |
| 3 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 4 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 5 | The following evening , the Ulster Hall hosts the gutsy folk and rock of Brighton lads The Levellers . |
| 6 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 7 | Anne Harper , until recently a senior executive with BP , heightened the feeling that there is a real and all-too-close-to-home problem when she compared her experience of working with the group 's local company boards in Scandinavia , where partly due to the existence of worker representatives the woman board member is not an unusual phenomenon , and in the machismo-oriented ‘ southern Mediterranean countries of Portugal , Spain and the Republic of Ireland ’ where it is — and promptly included her experiences in Scotland with the latter . |
| 8 | In spite of the wide range of supporting evidence for the existence of plate tectonics the question of what causes plates to move has yet to be fully resolved . |
| 9 | However , the election of Oscar Salasas the COB 's new executive secretary , an ex-Communist Party militant and the current leader of the small Democratic Socialist Alternative party ( ASD ) , indicated that the moderates held the initiative rather than the more militant sections . |
| 10 | None of these was Marine Projects standard , and he could n't help wondering what kind of water sports the original owner might have gone in for . |
| 11 | Research shows that , while across the majority of industry sectors the average telecommunications content of any given systems integration project is approximately 57% , the proportion in financial sector deals is more likely to be about 71% . |
| 12 | This branch of medicine studies the effects of brief high-dose exposures ( as during an industrial accident ) and long-term exposures at a lower level ( but still much higher than most people would encounter ) . |
| 13 | Also that the higher the pointage of entry qualifications the more likely the student was to be successful . |
| 14 | In the case of treasury bills the reason for this is obvious but commercial bills can acquire a similar status . |
| 15 | In the case of orphan children the position is relatively clear : a child without parents needs someone to care for it . |
| 16 | In the case of preference shares the company pays a fixed annual sum to the shareholder , and there is also the possibility of capital appreciation when the share is sold . |
| 17 | In the case of holiday firms the main element here would seem to be the financial advantages of being part of a larger conglomerate grouping . |
| 18 | In the case of T. axei the changes induced in the gastric mucosa are similar to those of Ostertagia with an alteration in pH and an increased permeability of the mucosa . |
| 19 | [ I ] t appears to us that unity of interest imports the existence of joint rights and obligations . |
| 20 | But whereas the male version of Surrealism presents an image of woman as a being controlled by her childlike vision and magical powers , a priestess who is a powerless conduit between the known and unknown , in the work of woman Surrealists the female is in tune with , and at the helm of her powers . |
| 21 | In the display window of Joy Jewels the sun set the rhinestone ropes and little gilt collarets ablaze , and the plane tree leaves shadowed the pavements in damask tablecloth patterns . |
| 22 | However we feel that it is important that each type of service debates the issues fully , in order to reach a realistic agreed policy , which also fits in with the policies of other local services . |
| 23 | With the help of specialilst consultants the policy and organisation has been reviewed . |
| 24 | On the contrary , it is a consortium of humanities scholars the likes of which we need anyway to establish more and better contact with . |
| 25 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 26 | At the same time they tried other jobs , the sort of also-ran jobs the music business is full of where you never become a celebrity but you are paid union rates and allowed to stand nearby . |
| 27 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 28 | This sort of language dismays the traditional ranks of SPD supporters , especially the big trade unions , who fear their voice within the party is being muffled . |
| 29 | The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making . |
| 30 | Knowledge of discourse aids the selection of coherent sentence progressions from incoherent ones , and involves aspects such as argument formation , dialogue continuity , story grammars , etc . |