Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation .
3 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 .
4 In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l
5 It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick .
13 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 .
14 Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label .
15 If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up .
16 ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home .
17 They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors
18 She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off .
19 In the case of ANLT however the number of parses suggested can be excessive ( e.g. ‘ I enter orders until the markets close ’ produced 4,848 different parses )
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation .
23 It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years .
24 the type of department where the student was registered did not always give a good indication of the research area being covered ;
25 To be ‘ ashore ’ the vessel must be out of the reach of the tides completely — see the Laid-up Type on the risk and statistics screens and the Polisy User Manual ( Claims ) , for a description of the type of mooring/location where the vessel should be laid-up .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre .
30 Unlike novation , assignment involves the transfer of property namely the rights in relation to a contract which continues to exist and is not extinguished .
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