Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for skilled management developers to use their expertise in the management of change to mitigate the worst effects . |
| 2 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 3 | The RSPCA has called in the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the living conditions of animals on a farm which was hit by an arson attack . |
| 4 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 5 | The following season he was Celtic 's star player in a memorable cup final when his heroic saves and faultless display of goalkeeping held the great Rangers side of the early ‘ 60s to a 1–1 draw . |
| 6 | From vitality of faith sprang the great cathedrals of France and England . |
| 7 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School of course recognised the various forms of conscious and institutional forms of control which only conceptualising human beings could achieve . |
| 9 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 10 | The most general account of vegetation so far published is that of Wilmott ( 1945 ) for Uig , but that does not of course use the modern methods for vegetation description . |
| 11 | The 18 species of bowerbird inhabit the damp forests of New Guinea and Australia . |
| 12 | Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities . |
| 13 | In particular , recourse to the quantity theory of money enabled the classical writers to pin down the absolute price level and this , together with a knowledge of the full-employment real wage rate , w * ; , made the money wage rate a determinate variable . |
| 14 | He and his agents collected very large sums of money to supply the urgent needs of the Crown — mainly Forest amercements , fines paid for privileges in the forest , the proceeds of sales of wood and of the leasing of assarts . |
| 15 | On April 23-27 an international advisory committee composed of international experts and officials of the IAEA , approved a plan of action to assess the radiological consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station accident in the Soviet Union [ see pp. 34460 ; 34749 ; 34841 ; 35401 ; 36471 ] . |
| 16 | In Italy the technological renovation of industry altered the basic conditions of employment in different ways across various firms and sectors , resulting in the general clauses of national agreements becoming obsolete and moving the centre of industrial conflict towards the enterprise itself ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | The parties can not , however , by an express statement of intention alter the legal consequences of their bargain . |
| 18 | In this study , differences in the histological sites of amyloid deposits between the chemical types of amyloid affected the clinical signs of intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 19 | Main change introduced in the Esprit III programme is a new category of research called the Open Microsystems Initiative ( OMI ) . |
| 20 | Other erupted on it , while hostile lances of light sought the gaping wounds those explosions had opened … |
| 21 | Behind a low wall , a ragged hedge squatted like a moulting hen over a clutch of empty drink cans and discarded crisp bags ; a couple of unkempt evergreen trees , grown to roof height , screened the house from the road and severely restricted the amount of light reaching the dingy windows . |
| 22 | Out of the darkness beyond the white wall , streaks of fireflies : sudden lines of light matching the projected gashes on the film , which would suddenly stop and the lights come up to make an interval . |
| 23 | Furthermore , at a time of heart-searching following the commercial difficulties of the Anglo-French Concorde project , and with de Gaulle no longer in power , the French space science community had difficulty in persuading the politicians of the need for France to go it alone in space . |
| 24 | Its terms of reference reflect the current objectives of IT Division . |
| 25 | Closer yet , and the clustered spires of each hive soar from the wastes of ash to pierce the highest clouds . |
| 26 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |
| 27 | The next day while Andy 's still asleep I take ( a ) some painkillers and ( b ) the car into Kyle of Lochalsh to tell the local police I 'm here . |
| 28 | Its part is written in the treble clef but by a curious quirk of transposition gives the actual notes sounded if the bass clef is thought of as displacing the treble . |
| 29 | Against these regions of contraction stood the prosperous secanos of the centre and the irrigated lands of the Ebro valley . |
| 30 | The last gleam of sun touched the ruined battlements as they watched , hung there for a moment like a tattered cloth caught on a briar , and was gone . |