Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |
| 2 | In the three studies that have reported the natural course of the disease in placebo arms of trials of medical treatment the disease progressed in about half the patients . |
| 3 | The number of pieces of heavy luggage the guest has on arrival should be entered into the luggage book ( Fig. 3.22 ) , which is usually kept at the hall porter 's desk . |
| 4 | After hundreds of years of embattled resistance the Dwarf city of Karak Eight Peaks falls to attack by Orcs , Goblins and Skaven . |
| 5 | The authority 's sewage works vary in size from those producing many millions of gallons of treated effluent a day to those serving a few houses in a rural area where the discharge may be the merest trickle . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) For purposes of this section a person is to be treated as obtaining property if he obtains ownership , possession or control of it , and ‘ obtain ’ includes obtaining for another or enabling another to obtain or to retain . |
| 7 | I start browsing out of a sense of duty to begin with , and drench myself with showers of settled rainwater every time I reach into a bush . |
| 8 | Under conditions of binocular vision the two eyes do not contribute equally to providing a stable binocular percept . |
| 9 | It should be remembered that in meetings of this type the minutes act as the authority for implementing the decisions . |
| 10 | In essays of this sort the pragmatist 's conception of practical judgment captures the essence of the legal realist 's criticism of legal formalism . |
| 11 | In cases of individual atonement a whole burnt-offering of a male victim was made ( Lev . |
| 12 | In this procedure the patient loses the entire cortex of one half of the brain , though in cases of recurrent tumour the hemisphere may be removed in two or more stages . |
| 13 | Remember too that in times of industrial strife the photograph could be blacked if the photographer is not an NUJ member . |
| 14 | Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time . |
| 15 | He points out that in times of national emergency the public turns automatically to the BBC . |
| 16 | Although McPhee , as Assistant Commandant , was nominally ranked higher than Owen , in operations of this sort the Mamur Zapt , responsible for order in the city , was in control . |
| 17 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 18 | In areas of lower incidence the cost-benefit ratio of this approach does not justify such large scale screening , and the risk of adverse effects outweighs the benefits . |
| 19 | In areas of declining population the designation of key villages has become an emotionally charged issue with allegations of villages being ‘ left to die ’ by cold-hearted and remote planners . |
| 20 | In periods of rapid expansion an increase in their own scale of operations has been paralleled by an expansion of output in smaller affiliated companies . |
| 21 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field . |
| 22 | Flying at around 50 feet in conditions of poor visibility the Blenheims pressed on over the sea , crossing into Germany just south of Cuxhaven and swinging south towards Bremen . |
| 23 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |
| 24 | Moore is two weeks older than Hills but in terms of international experience the Harlequins hooker is a lifetime ahead . |
| 25 | In terms of legal status the clerk had first of all the right to have his case tried only before a church court — the " privilege of the forum " . |
| 26 | In terms of overall gradient a similar trend to the European Carboniferous examples is evident . |
| 27 | In terms of individual responsibility the contrast between libertarianism and Christianity could not be greater . |
| 28 | In terms of official policy the movement from child care to family welfare resulted in demands for the creation of a more effective family service . |
| 29 | In terms of professional development the UK lags somewhat behind , having no fully recognised body of interpreters ( although such an organisation may now be close to recognition ) and , as far as we can make out , only one full-time interpreter in the whole country . |
| 30 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |