Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 2 | The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level . |
| 3 | Each kind of water contained the sewage of London and was supplied with very little attempt at purification . |
| 4 | For Smith , the difference is ‘ merely subjective ’ : the division within the enterprise is confined to one location and can be surveyed synoptically while in the case of the division of labour in society ‘ the spreading-out of the work over great areas and the great number of people employed in each branch of labour obscure the connection ’ ( paraphrased by Marx , 1976 , p. 475 ) . |
| 5 | But that course of action defies the logic of business . |
| 6 | Top of the Pops stuff does n't , in the sense that people who like to go and see live music do n't people who like that kind of music prefer the dis prefer it in a |
| 7 | That piece of cord contained the very wire that could be used to fix the car . |
| 8 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 9 | This change of orientation allows the light to pass . |
| 10 | This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles . |
| 11 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 12 | This kind of development characterized the transition from absolution to liberalism , just as the re-emergence of bureaucratic power has marked the transition from the liberal to the interventionist state of monopoly capitalism : ‘ in the last analysis this democracy was erected precisely in order to place institutional limits upon the privileges bequeathed to the administration by the Absolutist State ’ ( Poulantzas 1978 , p. 226 ) . |
| 13 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 14 | And going it alone in this kind of way increases the risks as well as limiting choice . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but this kind of thing gives the Government a bad name . |
| 16 | This level of magnification shows the eye as an optical instrument . |
| 17 | Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife . |
| 18 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 19 | This variety of lily produces the most beautiful fully-double white blooms — possibly the best white lily ever cultivated . |
| 20 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 21 | This conception of subjectivity paves the way for the contestation in Brooke-Rose 's later fiction of the hierarchical relations implicit in the conceptions of discursive identity by which we live . |
| 22 | On March 5 another outbreak of fire caused the search for some 150 missing men to be called off as the mine was sealed . |
| 23 | This piece of whimsy baffled the sergeant so he pressed on , ‘ The inspector said , if you could let him know the cause and time of death , he 'd be very grateful . |
| 24 | This stretch of coastline contains the outlets of no fewer than seven rivers . |
| 25 | On the one side of this act of rebellion lie the details of the plan for the tabernacle ( Exodus 25–31 ) , and on the other side the details of the execution of that plan , point by point ( Exodus 35–40 ) . |
| 26 | This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes . |
| 27 | Another type of experiment involves the reconstruction of finds : experiments on stone tools , for example , have greatly increased knowledge about how they were used and what they were used for . |
| 28 | This type of work avoids the issue of providing synonym access to information stored in the microcomputer — a problem heightened by the increased access to information through keywords and a release from the restraints of card-based subject indexes and catalogues . |
| 29 | This type of issue involves the issuing company itself offering the shares to the public . |
| 30 | This type of insurance involves the four-weekly collection of premiums in policyholders ' homes . |