Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As described on page 104 , not a great deal survives of the great capital city of the eastern half of the later Roman Empire . |
| 2 | Maxwell concluded that ‘ we can scarcely ; avoid the inference that light consists of the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena . ’ |
| 3 | In commenting on the enabling function of the tribunal , the research study speaks of the heavy burden placed on the tribunal of eliciting all the relevant information about the case and applying the law to the facts in an impartial and objective manner . |
| 4 | HURRICANE IIA Z2505 , looks set to return to Scotland once aviation archaeologists at Duxford have examined the remains for parts that may be useful in any future rebuilds of the rare fighter type . |
| 5 | It describes the process whereby the prospective auditor/adviser enquires of the incumbent auditor/adviser whether there are any professional reasons which , in the opinion of the incumbent , would affect the successor 's acceptance of the nomination . |
| 6 | Landry writes of the whole poem : ‘ These verses are hardly sapphic in any technical sense . |
| 7 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 8 | The attractiveness of a group consists of the interpersonal attractiveness of members of the group for one another . |
| 9 | The second group consists of the even-toed ungulates such as the hippopotamuses , giraffes , antelopes , and camels , goats and sheep , wild and domestic . |
| 10 | This process consists of the following steps : |
| 11 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |
| 12 | The upper millstone consists of the new gas plants , which are protected by their 15-year contracts . |
| 13 | The description continues , but the essential point emerges of the close relationship of man to locality on which the Saxon economy and social order was based . |
| 14 | ( m ) The question of reliance It is not enough that the seller knows of the particular purpose of the goods sold , the buyer must also have relied upon the credit-broker or seller 's skill and judgment at the date of the contract . |
| 15 | Like a stickered exclamation mark , the title warns of the inflammatory material within its letter-box size covers . |
| 16 | Ample evidence exists of the real destroyers of the forests being private contractors who supply the timber demands of industry ( Centre for Science and Environment 1982 ; Gribbin , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Around 1109 on the death of Fulk le Réchin , a monk , perhaps the abbot Eudes of the great house of Marmoutier , produced the first version of the Gesta , a series of brief biographies of the counts . |
| 18 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 19 | The 29-member unicameral Legislative Assembly consists of the Privy Council , nine hereditary nobles ( elected by their peers ) and nine popularly elected representatives . |
| 20 | For example , would set " length " to 15 since the sting consists of the 12 characters of BBCBASIC(Z80) followed by 3 spaces . |
| 21 | The procedure consists of the following stages : |
| 22 | Water sports on reservoirs are threatened as more evidence emerges of the blue-green algae , which feed on pollution and were first seen in Britain this summer . |
| 23 | The retina consists of the inner lining at the back of the eye and is a delicate membrane , constructed of ten different layers , one of which contains the two types of light-sensitive cells , the rods and cones . |
| 24 | The cottage consists of the living space on the ground floor divided up into small rooms , with an attic store for beans , grain , potatoes etc . |
| 25 | The Standard Grade course consists of the three elements TRANSLATION , INTERPRETATION and INVESTIGATION and is well designed to cater for the aims mentioned above . |
| 26 | Writing with hindsight , one expert on French space policy says of the French Diamant and the ELDO — Europa rocket experiments of the 1960s and early 1970s : Judged in terms of their operational capacity , the results were nonexistent . ’ |
| 27 | Finally , all the cathode leads of the right hand line are connected to the p.c.b. , with the lowest l.e.d. to copper pad 1 , the next to pad 2 etc . |
| 28 | His story tells of the brave men of the New Zealand Shipping Co Tekoa . |
| 29 | This monograph consists of the nine papers presented at a two day international symposium held at the University of Manchester in April 1988 . |
| 30 | When a dictatorship seriously violates human rights and attacks the common good of the nation , when it becomes unbearable or closes all channels of dialogue , of understanding , of rationality , when this happens , the Church speaks of the legitimate right of insurrectional violence . |