Example sentences of "the [noun] of [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is , similarly , often argued that the racism manifested by the central institutions of British society is actually due to the activities of a few individuals — the rotten apples . |
| 3 | Whilst the daisies look fine as they are , they will look quite stunning with the addition of a few butterflies and these are great fun to create . |
| 4 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 5 | Analysts also believe that the majority of the those people who would not disclose how they were going to vote were more likely to be Conservative than Labour . |
| 6 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |
| 7 | But the rigour of the criminal law is relaxed in her favour by the provision of the same Act that , on a charge against her for any offence , other than treason or murder , it is a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of and under the coercion of her husband . |
| 8 | The argument does not depend at all on demand growth : it rests on the view that to invest in Sizewell to replace old , but not necessarily worn out , plant will actually cheapen the provision of the same amount of electricity . |
| 9 | A mistrial was declared on Aug. 26 in the trial of a former CIA deputy director of covert operations , Clair George . |
| 10 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 11 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 12 | The same percentage of votes ( PV for short ) in different elections has not resulted in the award of the same percentage of seats ( PS ) . |
| 13 | He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below . |
| 14 | They are concerned , first , with the demoting of the former county boroughs and the consequent loss of the strengths that Redcliffe-Maud identified ; second , with more general questions of relations between the two tiers ; and third , with the party political considerations that cast shadows behind the curtain of official reports . |
| 15 | An " arrangement " under s103(3) includes a scheme of arrangement under s425 , but it must be open to all the shareholders ( or all the shareholders of the same class ) to take part in it ( s103(4) ) . |
| 16 | In 1995 , one in 3 qualified youing people will go to University ; that is the measure of the this Government 's commitment to higher education . |
| 17 | Back in Scotland , in 1712 he attempted to extend his dominions , which stretched from Dumfries to the braes of Glenapp in south-west Ayrshire , into the heart of the latter county ; however , his troops were defeated at Newton of Ayr by ‘ a powerful body of Tinkers from Argyll and Dumbarton ’ . |
| 18 | Now , in the afternoon of the same day , I was resting in a perfectly made bed after a hot bath in a perfectly designed bathroom . |
| 19 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 20 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 21 | He believes standards have only slipped in the case of a few companies , but that the press tends to seize on these examples and blow them up out of all proportion . |
| 22 | However , the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars , while significant struggles and in the case of the latter conflict involving savage warfare in Manchuria anticipating the kind of warfare to be seen in Europe between 1914 and 1918 , did not constitute a confrontation between two superpowers set against a background of vitriolic suspicion and rivalry , as happened in 1950 . |
| 23 | In the case of the latter report , this illustrates that the " least favoured regions " are almost exclusively large agricultural areas on the periphery of the Community in contrast to the " most favoured " regions which are characterised either by being large administrative/service centres or by containing large industrial concentrations . |
| 24 | In the case of the former novel , the sections were 14-line stanzas based on the verse form used by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin ; at 300 pages , The Golden Gate was a fast read . |
| 25 | The report also claimed that the plenum reviewed the case of the former party general secretary , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 26 | With the retirement of Lord Denning , it seems that the issue has been laid to rest for some time , since his successor , Lord Donaldson , and most of the current Lords Justices of Appeal do not appear to share the views of the former Master of the Rolls . |
| 27 | If the wavelength of a line produced in the observer 's laboratory at A is and the wavelength of the same line observed in the spectrum of the collapsing object is then the fractional increase z= ( — ) / is called the red shift of the spectral line . |
| 28 | Their optical spectra show large red shifts z , where being the wavelength of a spectral line from a source on Earth and the wavelength of the same line observed in the quasar spectrum . |
| 29 | Mr Fosten quotes a Horse Guards memo dated 17 June 1823 to all Regimental Clothiers : ‘ Patterns of Wings ( and tufts ) to be worn by NCOs and men of the Army ( distinguishing Grenadiers , Light Infantry and Battalions ) have been attached to the sealed patterns of the jackets deposited at the Office of Military Boards , and the Clothiers of the several regiments are directed to prepare their annual patterns for sealing in exact conformity thereto . |
| 30 | It was further provided by Statute that , in supplying a vacancy occurring during the sitting of Parliament , the burgh which presided at the election of the former member should preside at the new election . |