Example sentences of "of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Therefore he developed of necessity the system which Gladstone started under Queen Victoria , a little private team of secretaries or advisers . |
| 32 | They imbibed of necessity the belief in order and stability and , inevitably and as was intended , projected the same values on to the street people . |
| 33 | Of necessity the pronunciation of the individual sounds , the various vowels and consonants , will have to be mastered as soon as possible , otherwise it will be impossible to speak intelligibly . |
| 34 | In the absence of any agreement , or undertaking , then probably out of necessity the wife will have to pay for repairs , and explore the possibility when the trust comes to an end of applying to the court ( under " liberty to apply " ) for a variation of the division of the sale proceeds so that she is reimbursed . |
| 35 | Using a conversion factor of 1,250 feet per inch of mercury the approximate height above ground , at least in relation to the take-off point , could be calculated . |
| 36 | So half the room was tiddly and the other half looked a little confused at the amount of noise the others were making . |
| 37 | His passionate involvement with it had been sharpened by the realisation that owing to Géricault 's heavy use of bitumen the picture was in a very poor condition . |
| 38 | With a bit of luck the passage would be empty . |
| 39 | With a bit of luck the three of us should be able to get together tonight . ’ |
| 40 | In an ill-advised piece of muck-raking the newspaper printed comments by two former Wolves players , the ex-Irish Internationalist Danny Hegan and the former Scottish defender Frankie Munro . |
| 41 | Despite this absence of co-ordination the British government was eager to move against the French and make sure they could not endanger the American colonies . |
| 42 | As both contain the same quantity of dispersant the difference represents the weight within the size interval concerned . |
| 43 | With its massive gatehouses , water defence and concentric lines of defence the castle was virtually impregnable against contemporary methods . |
| 44 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 45 | In assimilation , by contrast , the environment is incorporated only at the level of comprehension the child has attained at any given stage ( Furth 1969 : 14 ) . |
| 46 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
| 47 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 48 | As a result mechanization in agriculture has wrought a spectacular change in the implements that the workers use to produce the crop and an equally drastic change in the pace at which each step in the productive process is carried out , but in most branches of agriculture the fundamental sequential organization of production remains undisturbed . |
| 49 | The Unit 's forester Andy Powell said that because of the changing nature of agriculture the need to remove hedgerows for farming efficiency is now less important . |
| 50 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 51 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |
| 52 | In the development through the years of adolescence the number of foreclosure pupils will diminish , hence the recruitment of boys into science would be cut . |
| 53 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |
| 54 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 55 | In areas where farmsteads are the normal form of settlement the pattern is very dense on good land , such as at Hanbury in Worcestershire , and less dense in upland areas such as Exmoor and Dartmoor . |
| 56 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 57 | 1.64 In Chambers v Karia where the order had not assigned the payment to any particular head of damage the whole of the interim payment was deducted just from special damages and not applied pro rata to all the heads of damage awarded , which does seem to be the correct approach . |
| 58 | Aye it did a lot of damage the dykes and that . |
| 59 | Is the appeal of physics the same for women as it is for men ? |
| 60 | Furthermore , where an Act of parliament imposes a statutory duty on the defendant(s) to perform some necessary function , such as the provision of electricity or gas and public sewers , if in carrying out this statutory duty a nuisance arises by way of odours , for example , then in the absence of negligence the nuisance must be borne by the neighbours , however injurious to them or their property . |