Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 2 | The following evening , the Ulster Hall hosts the gutsy folk and rock of Brighton lads The Levellers . |
| 3 | Just in case , somebody escape that net of dread diseases The lucky ones . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it is a consortium of humanities scholars the likes of which we need anyway to establish more and better contact with . |
| 5 | By focusing on the tensions caused by the imposition in April 1984 of milk quotas the study will document an instance of ‘ agricultural exceptionalism ’ under stress . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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% . |
| 8 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 9 | Also that the higher the pointage of entry qualifications the more likely the student was to be successful . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | Over twenty years after the introduction of village tribunals the Government Agent at Kurunagala discovered that presidents refused to accept any criminal plaints not endorsed by the village headman . |
| 12 | For a fuller treatment of a.c. bridges the reader should consult a specialist book such as Alternating Current Bridge Methods , Sixth Edition , by B. Hague and T. R. Foord , Pitman , London ( 1971 ) . |
| 13 | Giddens ( 1973 , p. 107 ) emphasises this idea with his concept of ‘ structuration ’ : ‘ The greater the degree of ‘ closure ’ of mobility chances the more this facilitates the formation of identifiable classes . |
| 14 | With the exception of winter weekends the Folk Park is open to visitors throughout the year . |
| 15 | For other sets of motor/drive parameters the characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis ; the torque tends to zero at an infinite stepping rate . |
| 16 | The decision , regarded as inevitable due to the activities of Loop offshoots The Hair And Skin Trading Company and Main , puts paid to speculation that the band would reunite for a US tour . |
| 17 | focus ( ii ) : Texts examples Coleridge 's " Kubla Khan " ; Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man ; poems by Sylvia Plath. focus ( iii ) : Generic groupings of texts examples The sonnet ; eighteenth-century pastoral poetry ; kitchen-sink drama . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 20 | She once summed up to a gathering of marketing specialists the extent of her success , which earned The Body Shop the award of business of the year in 1987 : |
| 21 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 22 | I find a glass or two of wine aids the digestion and makes an excellent nightcap . |
| 23 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They include : domiciliary support and mundane practical help ensuring contact between individuals and services ensuring contact between the range of staff contributing to care a structured " care process " the active coordination of case management the development of service schemes the mobilisation of informal and voluntary care resources One might add , as well , that the contribution of service users and their carers to the provision of care is to be acknowledged and their participation ensured . |
| 29 | On a lesser scale the clearance of the Weald continued much as before , with the slow , back-breaking burning of scrub and grubbing-up of tree stumps the task entailed . |
| 30 | Secondly , when governments spend in excess of taxation receipts the budget deficit incurred will be reduced as income levels rise and taxation receipts subsequently increase . |