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

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1 It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden .
2 Few , however , reflect the kind of commitment to effective professional service which inspired McClellan 's system in the borough of Tottenham in the 1950s .
3 CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years .
4 Not all cases known to the indicator agencies were examined , but only those who were resident in the Borough of Wirral during the specified time period .
5 Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population .
6 He 'd fallen in love with the decorative arts of France of the 17th and 18th centuries and wanted to furnish his house in that style .
7 A well-known Serbian-American historian , Michael Boro Petrovich , considers that the most far-reaching effect of the Ottoman occupation was the isolation of Serbia from the main currents of western thought and western social development .
8 The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) .
9 ( This type of motion is in the borderland that one may or may not choose to call turbulent , but it shows sufficient of the characteristics of turbulence for the present purpose . )
10 One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs .
11 Lewis and Townsend describe the North-South divide as ‘ one of the distinctive characteristics of Britain in the 1980s ’ .
12 If you want to know more about a rug you already own , or simply want to develop a general interest in the subject , study the design schemes ( described in Chapter IV ) , and the characteristics of rugs from the various producing countries ( Chapter V ) .
13 The pretreatment characteristics of patients in the two groups were similar ( table I ) , although the median time from original diagnosis of colorectal cancer to entry was slightly longer for patients with chemotherapy ( 8.5 ( range 0 to 61 ) months ) than for those who received supportive care alone ( 5.5 ( 0 to 22 ) months ) .
14 Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range .
15 This project considers the characteristics of individuals in the same households in a study of migration between 1966 and 1970 and between 1970 and 1971 .
16 If , as is very likely , experiments finally prove the ‘ scientific ’ feasibility of fusion in the next few years , there will be plenty of interest in the topic .
17 When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts .
18 He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’
19 However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting .
20 Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan .
21 As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal .
22 Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence .
23 Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have .
24 These two projects — on the one hand a wish to investigate the constraining influence of social wholes , and on the other a desire to understand the shaping power of individuals — answer to different sorts of concern with the social world .
25 Having reached the high-water mark in his claim for the nature and purpose of the birth of Jesus , Matthew goes on to cause all sorts of problems for the modern reader .
26 'Mill 's short-passing game was certainly not suited to the conditions , whereas Chiddingfold 's long balls out of defence caused all sorts of problems for the visiting defence .
27 It has 66 courses and 75 hotels , motels and condominiums offering a wide selection of accommodation , with all sorts of deals for the visiting golfer .
28 M. B. There were all sorts of people in the old Chinatown area .
29 Customs manufactured before the humbucking age feature two sorts of pickup on the same guitar : a P90 by the bridge , and an Alnico by the neck — a really old-fashioned looking thing , with huge great rectangular polepieces .
30 Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ?
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