Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the effectiveness of rewards varies with the desired behaviour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For a number of reasons to do with the local labour market and domestic economies , staff clung to a twelve-hour shift system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Four were from Edinburgh , and possibly resulted from consultation of copies borrowed outwith the normal inter-library loan system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Figures on the value of estates left by the deceased are sometimes used to calculate the overall distribution of wealth . |
| 15 | Volume is usually measured as the total number of contracts traded during the specified time period . |
| 16 | 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% ) . |
| 17 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 18 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 19 | Suddenly you hear the scrabble of claws coming in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | They they w s they withheld and suppressed evidence of suicides occurring during the pre-release trials . |
| 21 | In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media . |
| 22 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 23 | Generations of artists travelled about the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 25 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 26 | The endless catalogue of objects displayed in the international expositions , however awful aesthetically , are monuments to the pride of those who made them . |
| 27 | The Migration Period in Scandinavia witnessed the production of objects made from the great quantities of gold accumulated in the Roman world , much of which moved north when the Empire collapsed . |
| 28 | Horatio Nelson was born in Norfolk , died at sea , and is buried in St. Paul 's Cathedral — why does Monmouth have a museum full of objects associated with the famous admiral , including weapons , pictures , fine ceramics , silver and glass , ship models and letters ? |
| 29 | The numbers of teeth digested in the European eagle owl and tawny owl assemblages are much higher than in the categories 1–2 species ( Table 3.12 ) . |
| 30 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |