Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 2 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 3 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 4 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 5 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 6 | The full stage production has the advantage of scenery — the exterior and interior of the home in the Boston area — but loses the intimacy of the in-the-round presentation at the Studio theatre . |
| 7 | Major topics in this literature are marital happiness , the division of labour and the general patterning of husband-wife roles ; the combination of women 's employment with marriage , and its consequences for husband-wife and mother-child relationships ; the inter-relationships between the nuclear family and the wider kinship system ; and the ‘ captive wife ’ syndrome — the socially isolated situation of women with young children . |
| 8 | Full appreciation of place will involve exploration of the inter-relationships among the physical environment , the built environment , and the people . |
| 9 | Webb was one of the key figures in the restructuring of the Football League following the breakaway of the Premier League . |
| 10 | It is impossible for me , for reasons of space , to do more than summarise the most relevant parts of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada . |
| 11 | But both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords supported the Minister , Lord Keith saying that the judgments in the Divisional Court illustrated the danger of judges wrongly , though unconsciously , substituting their own views for the views of the decision-maker who alone was charged and authorized by Parliament to exercise a discretion . |
| 12 | Loretta turned to Simmons , feeling it was not an auspicious moment to trouble the porter with a sensitive request . |
| 13 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 14 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 15 | She was involved in planning the activities with the advisory teacher and took on full responsibility for organising the equipment for each session . |
| 16 | A judicial inquiry into the activities of a Liberal Party fund raiser in Ontario , Patricia Starr , opened on Sept. 18 , 1989 . |
| 17 | In the area of competition and canvassing there are three general headings under which the courts will examine the existence of reasonableness of a restraint : 4.1 Restricted activities If the employer seeks by contractual restraint to restrict the activities of a former employee by proscribing the types of business in which the employee may become engaged once employment is over then he can only do so if he can establish a close connection betwee the restriction and the work done by the employee prior to leaving . |
| 18 | Each committee covers a major section of work within a geographical area , linked to the activities of a broad management function , for example ‘ transport ’ ( i.e. train crew , stations , signalboxes , etc. ) , ‘ works and installations ’ ( i.e. permanent way activities ) , offices and workshops . |
| 19 | The National Old People 's Welfare Council , now known as Age Concern , coordinates and encourages the activities of a vast number of local groups concerned with old people 's welfare . |
| 20 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 21 | Indeed he suggests that despite its problems hierarchy remains the most efficient mechanism for integrating the activities of a large group of people , of making an organization work effectively . |
| 22 | If central Government are to pay even more of the cost , there must be greater control over the activities of every local authority . |
| 23 | The activities of the Preparatory Commission which is already functioning have made the position even more complex . |
| 24 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 25 | Post-demonstration coverage also marginalised the political content , focusing , instead , on the activities of the violent minority . |
| 26 | The activities of the Japanese ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) provide an important counter-example to the proposition that planning requires extensive state ownership . |
| 27 | The Slovak parliament on March 19 agreed to investigate the activities of the Interior Ministry since November 1989 ( i.e. under Meciar , who was Slovak Interior Minister before becoming Prime Minister in June 1990 ) , and the visits abroad by Slovak delegations . |
| 28 | Further evidence of a new mood in the legislature in this period can be seen in the steps taken to curtail the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 29 | Any increase or decrease in the money stock is thus directly attributable to the activities of the central bank . |
| 30 | To present an oversimplified example , it can be argued that many occupational groups within the middle class in Western society plan , organize and coordinate the activities of the working class . |