Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a vague smell of drains in the still air , of a cesspool somewhere . |
| 2 | But , unlike natural membranes ( nerve cell membranes , for example ) the ionic resistance of an artificial membrane can not be varied once it is in place ; and so the flux of ions across the membrane can not be fully controlled . |
| 3 | The number density of ions in the torus varies , presumably because of variations in the volcanic activity of Io . |
| 4 | The formula of an ionic compound shows the simplest ratio of ions in the ionic lattice . |
| 5 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 6 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 7 | Thus , competitive equilibrium models , with all markets clearing , have been used to investigate the incidence of different taxes , whereas a quite separate literature , using aggregate demand/monetary models , has examined the implications of taxes for the level of employment and the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | Mrs Yaxlee propped her machine against the outer wicket gate of the porch and placed her two armfuls of dahlias beside the door . |
| 9 | There are already a lot of Puritans on the London City Council , and they 'd love to close the theatres down . ’ |
| 10 | However , Russia formally protested to the Council of Europe over the status of Russians in the Baltic states , it was reported in The Baltic Independent of May 15-21 . |
| 11 | However , on Oct. 3 , Russian President Boris Yeltsin warned that Russia would take " appropriate measures " if the lives of Russians in the conflict area were threatened . |
| 12 | Hierarchy in a grid is most readily achieved by superimposing one set of parallels over the other . |
| 13 | The explanation of this remarkable correspondence between patterns of sexual dimorphism in humans and gelada baboons is to be found in evidence of parallels in the evolution of the two species which have been attributed to the likely existence of our hominid ancestors in a habitat similar to that of today 's gelada baboon and to a resultant comparability of life-style and evolutionary adaptation . |
| 14 | There is some ’ height ’ function H of states of the target system , which we want to optimize . |
| 15 | The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 16 | As an organising principle collective security was expected to underpin an Asian ‘ coalition ’ of states under the Soviet aegis , which would constitute a barrier against the emergence of Chinese influence in the 1970s . |
| 17 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom is supporting the applications of states from the Commonwealth of Independent States to join the United Nations and the IMF . |
| 19 | Second , a number of states in the Hellenistic period reduced the weight of their coinage . |
| 20 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 21 | In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith . |
| 22 | This is a metric on the space of states in the game studied above , with eight tiles which have to be moved to the goal position : |
| 23 | A poor rule will not be penalised until the Nth attempt at search , where N is the number of states in the entire search subspace accessible through this rule . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union , with Cuban assistance , experimented with the idea of a left-leaning confederation of states in the Horn of Africa in spring 1977 . |
| 25 | Washington had agreements with a number of states in the Indian Ocean basin , he claimed , on the joint use of local military bases and installations by American and national armed forces . |
| 26 | Since there are substantially fewer syntactic categories than words in the language , the number of states in the model is reduced . |
| 27 | On one level all treaties and other international transactions affect strangers to the transaction , which must respect the allocation of values between the parties . |
| 28 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 29 | What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people . |
| 30 | Study the following table of values for the equation y = x + 1 . |