Example sentences of "of [noun sg] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to underline fears about new diseases from Europe , that symbol of unity the Channel tunnel has been fitted with electronic fox traps to prevent that most dreaded of diseases , rabies . |
| 2 | During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime . |
| 3 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 4 | Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident . |
| 5 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 6 | Montage always ‘ places the spectator 's look in question , ( it ) poses the question of its constitution , and makes the institution of cinema the question of every film ’ . |
| 7 | In the case of a star of mass the time constant is of the order , which means that when the signals from the probe begin to fade they do so quickly . |
| 8 | Section 663 provides that where there is a settlement , and during the life of the settlor any income is paid to or for the benefit of a child of the settlor in any year of assessment , the income shall , if at the time of payment the child is unmarried and below the age of 18 , be treated as the settlor 's income and not the income of any other person . |
| 9 | From the early stages of industrialisation the demand for unskilled labour was exceeded only by the supply ; as an occupational category it remained dominant . |
| 10 | At the start of take-off the stick is held fully back so that , as the aircraft accelerates , the floats ' bow-waves build up to lift their fronts . |
| 11 | At the time of take-off the aircraft 's weight was close to the maximum authorised weight and the centre of gravity was within limits . |
| 12 | In this anecdotal kind of story the device is , on the whole , pleasing to the reader , even after being caught out by it , and so it is permissible . |
| 13 | Gatwick — set in over 100 acres of woodland the Copthorne Hotel . |
| 14 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 15 | At the end of the first hour of prayer the Sergeant who had branded Lexandro — Sergeant Zed Juron — summoned him and Valence and Tundrish and another cadet , Omar Akbar , the number that would make a squad of Scouts , in fact . |
| 16 | The levels of precaution differ in the amount of freedom the patient is allowed and the intensity of observation . |
| 17 | Whether a translation conforms to the source-text patterns of cohesion or tries to approximate to target-language patterns will depend in the final analysis on the purpose of the translation and the amount of freedom the translator feels entitled to in rechunking information and/or altering signals of relations between chunks . |
| 18 | At the time of diagnosis of leukaemia the TNF was 3 pg/mL ; during her pneumonia , 40 pg/mL ; 2 months after , 8 pg/mL ; and 5 months after , 7 pg/mL . |
| 19 | Therefore he developed of necessity the system which Gladstone started under Queen Victoria , a little private team of secretaries or advisers . |
| 20 | Of necessity the pronunciation of the individual sounds , the various vowels and consonants , will have to be mastered as soon as possible , otherwise it will be impossible to speak intelligibly . |
| 21 | In the absence of any agreement , or undertaking , then probably out of necessity the wife will have to pay for repairs , and explore the possibility when the trust comes to an end of applying to the court ( under " liberty to apply " ) for a variation of the division of the sale proceeds so that she is reimbursed . |
| 22 | They imbibed of necessity the belief in order and stability and , inevitably and as was intended , projected the same values on to the street people . |
| 23 | So half the room was tiddly and the other half looked a little confused at the amount of noise the others were making . |
| 24 | His passionate involvement with it had been sharpened by the realisation that owing to Géricault 's heavy use of bitumen the picture was in a very poor condition . |
| 25 | With a bit of luck the passage would be empty . |
| 26 | In an ill-advised piece of muck-raking the newspaper printed comments by two former Wolves players , the ex-Irish Internationalist Danny Hegan and the former Scottish defender Frankie Munro . |
| 27 | As both contain the same quantity of dispersant the difference represents the weight within the size interval concerned . |
| 28 | With its massive gatehouses , water defence and concentric lines of defence the castle was virtually impregnable against contemporary methods . |
| 29 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 30 | In assimilation , by contrast , the environment is incorporated only at the level of comprehension the child has attained at any given stage ( Furth 1969 : 14 ) . |