Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 2 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 3 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 4 | But the effectiveness of rewards varies with the desired behaviour . |
| 5 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 6 | The numerical growth of states participating in the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s reinforced the Soviet perception that the global ‘ correlation of forces ‘ was shifting away from the West and that Western-sponsored multilateral military alliances and alignments in the Third World were fragmenting or weakening . |
| 7 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 8 | Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 10 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 11 | For a number of reasons to do with the local labour market and domestic economies , staff clung to a twelve-hour shift system . |
| 12 | The group of products falling into the three diagonal squares are between these two extremes on one or both axes . |
| 13 | The Woodcliffe , New Jersey-based Ascom Timeplex Inc subsidiary of Ascom Holding AG , Berne , Switzerland , last week launched a series of products aimed at the corporate networking market . |
| 14 | Every child knows too , that the mass of products corresponding to the different needs require different and quantitatively determined masses of the total labour of society . |
| 15 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
| 16 | Carthaginian coinage provides a good example , since the axis of coins made at Carthage was normally fixed at twelve , whereas that of coins made in the Sicilian or Sardinian provinces was variable . |
| 17 | For example , the large numbers of coins recovered from the Roman bath at Bath tapered off in number from the middle of the fourth century . |
| 18 | An ‘ edition ’ of a book is the whole number of copies printed from the same setting of type . |
| 19 | Four were from Edinburgh , and possibly resulted from consultation of copies borrowed outwith the normal inter-library loan system . |
| 20 | In Britain , a number of projects developed in the 1970s with the objective of bringing together socialists , trade unionists and community activists . |
| 21 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 22 | Wherever you look , the French countryside is brimming with light , colour , the aroma of herbs growing in the wild , and a people and scenery that make it one of the most wonderfully enticing parts of the world . |
| 23 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 24 | This group of authorities added to the six mentioned above , equalled 14% of our sample . |
| 25 | Figures on the value of estates left by the deceased are sometimes used to calculate the overall distribution of wealth . |
| 26 | This is not the only advantage offered by an integrated spatial database for , given appropriate GIS software and hardware that are jointly capable of providing the kind of operations described in the earlier part of this chapter , geographical referencing opens up the possibility of combining cartographic and attribute data in logical ways , such as in determining those areas which possess characteristic A and ( or/not ) characteristic B. |
| 27 | Their work can be seen as a range of attempts to deal with a shared set of problems which have perhaps been most clearly formulated by the greatest among them — by Bloch and Febvre ( the founders of the journal ) in the first generation , by Braudel in the second , and more recently by Le Roy Ladurie . |
| 28 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 29 | Volume is usually measured as the total number of contracts traded during the specified time period . |
| 30 | Indeed , the median number of γ-interferon expressing cells in the lamina propria was almost half the total of leucocytes identified by the anti-CD45 antibody ( range : 20–88% ) , while 13.5% of normal intraepithelial lymphocytes were positive for γ-interferon ( range : 2–35% ) . |