Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 2 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 3 | Having propped up the Ottoman empire for the latter part of the nineteenth century , Britain and France now set about dismantling it . |
| 4 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 5 | And besides , there was soon a property wagon and two more sleeping wagons for the many members of the wealthy company . |
| 6 | If however the desired labour supply exceeds that demanded , L D , the consumer is rationed on this market and utility is maximized subject to the constraint L s = L D ( the process of rationing is assumed to be such that each worker is employed for the same fraction of the desired L s ) . |
| 7 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 8 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 9 | ‘ But clearly , although they are not producing computers for the same sector of the market place , they are both manufacturing plants . ’ |
| 10 | The solution may be stable on either the success or the failure surfaces for the same value of the logical rigour factor . |
| 11 | During the latter part of the night , in spite of having had no sleep , feelings of fatigue begin to diminish . |
| 12 | Thus the plant can , during the latter part of the night , move its leaves to a position appropriate for sunrise ; predatory animals can prepare themselves for the activity of hunting and hunted animals can escape to safety before it is too late . |
| 13 | During the latter part of the century visits by famous Nonconformist ministers as great public figures , and not as denominational delegates or visiting preachers , became part of American cultural and religious life . |
| 14 | During the latter part of the eighteenth century several handsome houses were built overlooking the river there and the name became ‘ Strand on Green ’ , and not until the early part of the nineteenth century did the present name of ‘ Strand-on-the-Green ’ become formally adopted . |
| 15 | Some of the first references are to a fulling mill , known during the latter part of the 17th century , as Fields Mill . |
| 16 | It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Tewkesbury 's commercial decline began for , at the time of building of Healing 's substantial mills , many of the smaller cottage-based trades disappeared . |
| 17 | During the latter part of the 19th century , the mill was used by the Lane family in connection with their edge-tool business in Cirencester . |
| 18 | It did n't take long for him to bounce back , however , and during the latter part of the 1970s and early 1980s he and Trevino put themselves in for further chances of Open glory . |
| 19 | The aim is to gybe just before an oncoming wave , thus using the ‘ downhill ’ part of the wave , when you are most vulnerable , ie during the latter part of the turn . |
| 20 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century , the application of quantitative methods of science was extended to psychology and so to education . |
| 21 | During the latter part of the 19th century the Royal College of Chemistry ( subsequently retitled the Royal College of Science ) and the Royal School of Mines moved to the site from their previous buildings in the West End and the City and Guilds Institute was built there . |
| 22 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | During the latter part of the 1970s , cash limits , known as External Financing Limits ( EFLs ) , were introduced as governments tried to control public spending . |
| 24 | This did , however , enable me to test Mr Getty 's hospitality to the full during the latter part of the day , and I can confirm it is as fulsome as previous Press reports have indicated . |
| 25 | The flourishing of more liberal trends during the latter part of the war and the early 1920s seemed to mark a shift from autocratic , oligarchic rule to representative party politics , giving the period the title ‘ Taishó democracy ’ , after the Taishó emperor who came to the throne in 1912 . |
| 26 | It is advisable when planning the leave year to exclude the last two weeks to permit " mopping up " of outstanding leave entitlement arising through sickness or staff joining during the latter part of the year . |
| 27 | Unemployment , in contrast , has risen sharply during the latter part of the period , in terms of both numbers and rate ( see Figure 2.1(b) and ( c ) ) . |
| 28 | It appears to reflect a course of practice , developed during the latter part of the 19th century , to abstain from questioning , not after charge , but after the suspect had been taken into custody ; and it appears that in general any evidence obtained from such questioning was regarded as inadmissible : see Archbold 's Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 28th ed. ( 1931 ) , p. 407 . |
| 29 | Admittedly , he was disturbed by the news of the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in March , and dismayed above all by the noninterventionist policies adopted by France and Great Britain towards Spain during the latter part of the year , but despite these setbacks , Nizan 's mood throughout 1936 was generally optimistic . |
| 30 | In a review of Jean-Richard Bloch 's essay , Naissance d'une culture , Nizan refers to the issue of the " legacy of cultures and the invention of a new culture " as the major problem confronting the contemporary writer , intellectual , artist.38 Nizan signals his agreement with Bloch that bourgeois humanist and individualist culture , optimistic , progressive and outward-looking in its origins , degenerated during the latter part of the nineteenth century into a solitary , self-preoccupied and defensively reactionary activity . |