Example sentences of "of the [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The quiescence of the Jurassic culminated in the widespread Tithonian limestones of southern Europe . |
2 | " Ultimately we have the base of the Jurassic defined by a single bedding plane on the coast of Somerset , where we took the Jurassic specialists of the world to see it during our celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of William Smith in 1969 . |
3 | ‘ Fan ’ and ‘ step ’ experiments led him to doubt this , and , combined with close observation of the dance led to the decoding of the language . |
4 | In many of the experiments described in the earlier parts of this chapter , the context was changed substantially from pre-training to the test . |
5 | Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) . |
6 | Throughout the game , neither side managed to take control in a typical basement battle , although the majority of the chances fell to the home side . |
7 | This book is a record of the papers presented at the Fibre 90 conference held in Norwich in April 1990 . |
8 | It is a pity that this book contains only half ( 11 ) of the papers presented at the symposium , the rest having appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , apparently for logistic rather than logical reasons . |
9 | The quality of the papers given in the technical stream was high . |
10 | The former interpretation highlights the role played by texts in the socio-cultural processes whereby conventions and ideologies are transmitted or subverted , while the latter points to the possibility of describing and exposing such processes by means of linguistic analysis , which is the central purpose of the papers collected in the volume . |
11 | I enclose the final version of the papers put before the Committee — which were slightly amended from the versions you say . |
12 | A general feeling of pessimism over the future of the talks emerged from a meeting in Tunis on Nov. 21-23 between Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) leaders and members of the Palestinian negotiating team . |
13 | The starkness of the contrast drawn between the premises and application of traditional natural justice and those of fairness are open to a number of objections . |
14 | The spine of the tree curved like a man stretching tall after a heavy sleep . |
15 | A trie index is particularly useful when keys are of varying sizes , and the path of a search at any point of the tree depends on a part of the key rather than its full value . |
16 | The circle was a blur now , and the walls of the Tree rang with the echoes of the chant |
17 | Most startling of all is the FFr6.5 billion net profit ( FFr8.9 billion taking account of the taxes forgiven by the government ) just announced by Mr Raymond Levy of the carmaker Renault . |
18 | Welcome though North sea oil taxation revenues are , does my hon. Friend agree that they are not a large proportion of the taxes paid in the United Kingdom ? |
19 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
20 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
21 | In view of the fears expressed about the possibility of serious restrictions being placed on the availability of certain nutritional supplements as a result of the new EC regulations , will the Minister give us an assurance that the Government will conduct far wider and genuine consultations on the discussion paper that has been produced by the European Commission ? |
22 | Surveyors are one of the professions exempt from the usual size limit of twenty partners . |
23 | Lawyers and doctors had their own institutions dating back to Tudor times , but the great expansion of the professions occurred in the Victorian age . |
24 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
25 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
26 | He had n't noticed it before because of the hedge growing along the side of the bank , but here , and for some way ahead , it was open to the road . |
27 | The other side of the hedge gives onto the road . |
28 | Many of the herbs included in the list are of an ideal size , and any plants you do n't press can be put to excellent use in the kitchen . |
29 | Expressed in the simplest terms , however , normal flight depends on the creation by a propeller-like action of the wings of a zone of low pressure in front of and above the insect and one of high pressure behind and below it , the consequent movement being a resultant of the thrust provided by the insect and forces due to gravity and air-resistance . |
30 | Moreover , in China there was nothing corresponding to the secularization of history in Europe after the domination of the Church ended with the Renaissance and Reformation . |