Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 2 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 3 | In all three parts " reasonable " means providing no more than relevant and necessary protection for the legitimate interest of the covenantee . |
| 4 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 5 | The position of the DBMS , acting as a cushion between the logical views of the data structure and the physical schema , is shown in Figure 4.1 . |
| 6 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 7 | Being a Member of Parliament during the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century could be a hazardous occupation . |
| 8 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |
| 9 | Of course , not all their games have this aspect of preparation for the serious business of life . |
| 10 | He has been thrifty and pored over contracts , although there is no preparation for the mental upset of a group folding . |
| 11 | These drawings were originally prepared on the assumption that the Tussaud carriage was built in 1811 in preparation for the Russian campaign of 1812 in which it was reputed ( erroneously ) to have taken part . |
| 12 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 13 | The Presidents of the four member countries , Uruguay , Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay , agreed to set a ceiling of 20 per cent for common trade tariffs on most commodities , in preparation for the complete elimination of tariffs by the end of January 1994 . |
| 14 | In preparation for the complete reconstruction of the Frauenkirche , the Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege has made an appeal for any documents , photographs , letters or memoirs that could help in their task . |
| 15 | He picked at another piece of raw wood that had been crudely cut in the workshop across the compound in preparation for the finishing work of the lathes . |
| 16 | The government saw it as essential to slim down the coal industry [ see p. 38781 ] in preparation for the eventual privatization of British Coal itself . |
| 17 | He disarmingly admitted his lack of preparation for the huge range of problems with which he had to grapple . |
| 18 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
| 19 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 20 | The formal relationships outlined above need to be complemented by an appreciation of informal linkages , such as the sharing of knowledge and experience through the regional branches of professional associations . |
| 21 | There is a unity about the fictional world of Lawrence Durrell , but , to this reader at any rate , a meretricious one . |
| 22 | Carlisle Cathedral suffered badly from the attentions of garrisons between 1645 and 1652 , and York Minster only avoided serious damage through the personal intervention of the New Model Army commander , Sir Thomas Fairfax . |
| 23 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 24 | From the content of the text the analyst can , in principle , determine what aspects of the context are explicitly reflected in the text as the formal record of the utterance . |
| 25 | Politically , Bradley argues Charles de Gaulle 's case for the independent French deterrent and for the Paris-Bonn link as the real linchpin of European security . |
| 26 | The presence of this type of homophilic interaction as the dominant form of molecular association in the sCD2 crystals lends support to the general hypothesis . |
| 27 | ( With the privilege of hindsight , some may see here an anticipation of the modern emphasis on transactions and interaction as the basic nexus of symbolic life . ) |
| 28 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 29 | In APL , the previous experience is more varied and is therefore not usually supported by a certificate as the main evidence of competence . |
| 30 | In addition the development of birth-control techniques provided the opportunity for the above changes of attitudes to be encouraged . |