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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 4 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 11 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 18 | Unlike novation , assignment involves the transfer of property namely the rights in relation to a contract which continues to exist and is not extinguished . |
| 19 | If a reasonable man would believe that there was a real likelihood of bias then the decision is overturned ; surmise or conjecture is insufficient . |
| 20 | If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong . |
| 21 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 22 | Electronic mail makes the importance of context all the clearer . |
| 23 | In this last period of devastation even the gorse bruiser and the rest of the Collector 's inventions met their doom . |
| 24 | In the case of the thermal printer it is essential to get the correct grade of paper otherwise the image does not develop properly . |
| 25 | However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization . |
| 26 | But if the Devil has no reality or active role in the divine drama of salvation then the vision of the Great Battle is lost . |
| 27 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 28 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 29 | In the Court of Appeal yesterday the National Union of Mineworkers failed to overturn an injunction granted to its South Wales area in May , banning the union from issuing ballot papers for an election for a new national vice-president because of an ‘ unlawful ’ ruling by Mr Arthur Scargill . |
| 30 | Not merely is the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal hardly the most suitable tribunal to determine complex questions of civil law — the pressures on the court 's time aside — but the very fact that this is the Criminal Division carries with it the consequence that whatever we decide can not be the subject of appeal : see section 33 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 . |