Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Now , the average age has plummeted , in great measure due to the efforts of this remarkable character .
2 Whilst the situation has improved greatly in the UK , in large measure due to the efforts of the British Library , Aslib , and the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL ) , there are , regrettably , still some British universities which cling to restrictive practices with regard to the consultation and loan of theses .
3 He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 .
4 Changes in style are in part due to the emphases of different Evaluation Officers .
5 Flows due to the transactions of these customers influence the cash position of the money market but are not disclosed by the Bank .
6 This was clearly insufficient to produce a building adequate for the needs of the county , and another circular letter was sent out asking for support .
7 Richard Rampton QC , read out a draft of a speech which Lord Aldington gave in March 1985 to the pupils of Winchester College where he was Warden .
8 5 of vol. 2 of The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) .
9 The value of computerized information retrieval lies not only in the in-depth storage and retrieval of information but in the opportunity for developing in-depth search strategies free from the restraints of searching a number of bibliographic tools for relevant information .
10 Without their support some of the giants of British business would quickly grind to a halt .
11 Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence .
12 Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen .
13 It is particularly suitable for displaying very low frequency trends ( such as a battery discharge ) which can not be displayed on an oscilloscope due to the limitations of a CRT .
14 Between achieves a balance between the mobility and indeterminacy inherent in the postulates of our post-Einsteinian age and the rigid conventions toward which mass culture tends .
15 I explained this ( J. Milroy , 1982b : 43 ) in relation to the simplification pattern in short /a/ ( see chapter 4.5 for the findings of this study ) , which we measured by using a three-way analysis of variance .
16 Have you ever felt angry about the misogyny rampant in the lyrics of certain rap groups ?
17 This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time .
18 Before that we consider in the next chapter some of the criticisms of the model and of the major results we have derived from it .
19 The previous section has brought to light some of the difficulties of carrying out a radical approach to the development of information systems in many organisations .
20 This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 .
21 He became a model landlord , a horticulturalist ( he won a gold medal from the Royal Society for some successful experiments with a variety of potatoes ) and he began to put into practice some of the notions of public service which he felt appropriate to his station in life .
22 In therapy some of the sources of his rage were exposed , particularly the lack of love within the alternating violence and apathy of the parenting he had received .
23 ( 2 ) That , although there was power under rule 22 of the Rules of 1991 to order the local authority to pay costs , orders for costs in cases involving children were unusual ; that the justices ' findings and reasons , even taking into account their extended reasons , were insufficient to sustain their order for costs ; that the local authority 's exercise of its statutory role in the changing circumstances affecting the children could not be criticised ; and that , accordingly , the award of costs should be set aside ( post , pp. 527H , 528H , 530D–E , 531B–D ) .
24 The first is a steering approach and formulates disequilibrium policy by minimising a quadratic welfare loss criterion subject to the constraints of a large nonlinear econometric model .
25 A registrar having made that order , and the administrators having refused to disclose that statement to the accountants , the accountants applied to the court for leave under rule 9.5 of the Rules of 1986 to inspect the statement of grounds and to set aside the registrar 's order .
26 The importance of the family unit is most evident amongst the scythesmiths , with local dynasties such as the Rayboulds of Lower Gornal , the Waldrons of Clent , the Hill and Lea families of Bloomers End , Cradley , the Badgers of Kingswinford and others whose names constantly recur in local records .
27 Thus the main rhythms are not static , but suggest a movement of circulation appropriate to the transactions of the Post Office . ’
28 That is a round figure subject to the hazards of forecasting , but no one should doubt that , among the quarter of a million people who lost their jobs in the recession , there will be many craftsmen and trainees , who will be permanently lost to the industry .
29 Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to .
30 Comparing the proportion of never smokers in the groups using the family and smoking project and those not using it by χ 2 analysis gave a result consistent with the results of the model ( χ 2 a d j =3.7 , df=1 ; p=0.05 ) .
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