Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its ‘ strong ’ form , this emergent cosmology of biographical medicine places the patient and his biography at the centre of ‘ the medical gaze ’ and relegates hospital medicine to a purely technical role ; in its weaker form , the two cosmologies are different , but equal . |
| 2 | There is n't a great deal of historical precedent to support the view that patriarchy can be transformed by sweet reason and persuasion . |
| 3 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 4 | However , we interpreted this as being the result of cytoplasmic staining overlying the nucleus , rather than nuclear staining . |
| 5 | The conference , organised by the World Bank and European Investment Bank and successor to one held in Barcelona in 1989 , aimed to draw up a programme of technical assistance to protect the Mediterranean from pollution . |
| 6 | The appalling health of the population , revealed by Boer War recruitment , did much to persuade the Establishment of the need for an extensive programme of social reform to improve the condition of the working class . |
| 7 | A study of deductive reasoning constitutes the discipline of logic . |
| 8 | Public choice theory is an approach to the study of political decision-making using the tools of orthodox economic theory ( of the type discussed in Chapter 3 , section 3.2 ) . |
| 9 | A study of electoral propaganda conveys the impression that many of the General Elections were fought out on the great party issues of the day : religion , the war , and the security of the protestant succession . |
| 10 | In his book Gotcha ! — The Media , The Government And The Falklands Crisis , Robert Harris noted the dismay of Ministry of Defence officials at the readiness of British tv to report the enemy 's view of the war , even using Argentine footage . |
| 11 | A gale of easy laughter closes the Q&A and we leave the magazine 's offices together , the critic due at a screening uptown ; I offer to help hail a cab but Kael prefers the services of the doorman at the neighbouring Algonquin Hotel . |
| 12 | In Sybil , the humble heroine turns out to be an heiress and is able to marry her well-meaning aristocratic lover without compromising the class system , and a similar stroke of good fortune resolves the love stories in Shirley and North and South . |
| 13 | Neat little white pots , with a crust of yellow butter suggesting the spicy treat beneath , beef , ham or tongue , handiwork of the second or third kitchenmaid … " |
| 14 | The major line of development of the College has thus been its transformation from a teaching school attached to an equine infirmary , to a fully fledged university school in which teaching at undergraduate level and research of high standing encompass the whole range of domesticated animals , and where postgraduate courses meet the increasing demands of specialisation in such subjects as animal health , pathology and laboratory animal science . |
| 15 | Furthermore , an adequate characterisation of spoken language requires the integration of descriptive frameworks from different branches of linguistics and psychology . |
| 16 | In 1967 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease decimated the herds of Cheshire in particular and a small group of local farmers restocked with imported Holsteins , because they were cheaper than British Friesians , and continued to import from North America in larger numbers . |
| 17 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |
| 18 | His removal to the USA was a violation of Panamanian law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , and , as a foreigner who had committed his alleged crimes outside the USA , the US claim to jurisdiction to try Noriega was far from certain , although some legal experts suggested that sufficient precedents existed to circumvent any such defence . |
| 19 | Undo the backnut , with a second person or piece of wedged wood stopping the tap turning . |
| 20 | On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done . |
| 21 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 22 | He said Labour 's proposed end to support for the closed shop , rather than evidence of a changed attitude to Europe , was a piece of clever opportunism to get the party where it wanted to be . |
| 23 | You can also use a piece of round rod to mark the smooth concrete into a pattern that looks like crazy paving . |
| 24 | Dr Kumar said : ‘ This is a subtle piece of anti-Labour propaganda creating the quite unjustified worry in many people 's minds that Labour plans to attack their financial security . ’ |
| 25 | The Colour badge is stitched on to a large piece of scarlet cloth matching the material of the jacket . |
| 26 | In 1930 the Royal College of Public Health started the first family-planning courses for physicians . |
| 27 | At the same time the imperative of economic growth to minimize the contradictions of capital , creates an apparent dependence on the logic of scientific and technological progress . |
| 28 | ‘ A rule compelling the critic of official conduct to guarantee the truth of all his factual assertions — and to do so on pain of libel judgments virtually unlimited in amount — leads to a comparable ‘ self-censorship . ’ |
| 29 | This is because the crime of indecent assault requires the defendant to do something to the victim . |
| 30 | But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions . |