Example sentences of "of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
| 2 | That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales . |
| 3 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 4 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 5 | Since few living rooms have a naturally humid atmosphere , unless you happen to have a humidifier installed for your own comfort , it 's necessary to create localised humidity for those plants that need plenty of moisture in the air . |
| 6 | A rainbow is formed from the interaction of pure white sunlight with molecules of moisture in the atmosphere acting as prisms that break up the light into the respective colours perceived through our senses . |
| 7 | HUNDREDS of animals were treated by St Tiggywinkle 's hospital for dehydration due to the lack of moisture in the soil this year . |
| 8 | Constant wetting makes nails soft and opaque , and chemical detergents and varnish removers decrease levels of moisture in the nail . |
| 9 | Crop mark sites are mainly caused by differences in the amount of moisture in the soil . |
| 10 | Apart from the discomfort of rain , cold , wind or excessive heat , the amount of moisture in the soil affects the visibility of the layers that are being excavated . |
| 11 | Amber is said to have her eyes on the plum part of Beatrice in the screen version of Dante 's Divine Comedy– . |
| 12 | There was a vague smell of drains in the still air , of a cesspool somewhere . |
| 13 | With hopes of unity in the Western Cape there is a real prospect of international rugby once again this season . |
| 14 | But this was a rare moment of unity in the expression of oppositional definitions of the ‘ national interest ’ . |
| 15 | Various effects can be attributed to other instances of recurrent imagery besides that of merely providing a satisfactory feeling of unity in the narrative performance . |
| 16 | Until new institutions could be put in place , this common confidence in de Gaulle was the only effective source of unity in the nation . |
| 17 | In the late medieval period , although the sense of unity in the Church was stretched to near breaking point as the upsurge of spiritual enthusiasm from the grass roots which had been fostered by the Church 's own mission for reform since the thirteenth century became viewed as a potential threat by the establishment , there was nevertheless a fruitful tension between individual and corporate senses of identity . |
| 18 | The number density of ions in the torus varies , presumably because of variations in the volcanic activity of Io . |
| 19 | The formula of an ionic compound shows the simplest ratio of ions in the ionic lattice . |
| 20 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
| 21 | Robert Van Lierop of Vanuatu in the West Pacific and chairman of the group , told the delegates that nations like his ‘ do not have the luxury of waiting for conclusive proof ’ of global warming . |
| 22 | ‘ I assume you know the state of play in the admin assistants ’ dispute ? ’ |
| 23 | Two unconnected events , but they present a picture of sport on television which brings the state of play in the battle for the sporting viewer into sharp perspective ; BBC , centre circle , triumphant ; ITV pushed to the wings ; and the satellite and cable companies warming to the game after their first year 's play . |
| 24 | Rounding up the state of play in the RISC market , Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha and the MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 part are already 64-bit . |
| 25 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 26 | The second distinction between the results here and those of Kreps and Wilson is the behaviour of play in the infinite time horizon case . |
| 27 | David Dimbleby will bring on-the-spot coverage of the state of play in the world 's most powerful country as it goes to the polls and the fates of Bill Clinton , George Bush and Ross Perot are decided . |
| 28 | But Wednesday took the lead against the run of play in the 27th minute . |
| 29 | The Board made it clear that ‘ if a School Board is resolved upon , the arrangement by which the Company now pay rates upon their cottage property will be terminated , and that the rates will have to be paid by the tenants themselves : On the other hand , if the Board is not decided upon , the Company will combine with the remaining £4,000 of assessment in the Parish with a view of providing a small Infant School at Old Bradwell . |
| 30 | Look at the different requirements and forms of assessment in the following questions . |