Example sentences of "the [noun] of the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 7 | The same percentage of votes ( PV for short ) in different elections has not resulted in the award of the same percentage of seats ( PS ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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) ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The report also claimed that the plenum reviewed the case of the former party general secretary , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | With the election of the former UDF leader , Zhelev , as President in August 1990 and the formation of a coalition government headed by a non-party political Prime Minister ( Dimitur Popov ) in December [ see p. 37923 ] , Bulgarian domestic politics entered a period of relative stability . |
| 24 | A good modern example is the decision of the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning , to convene a special court of five judges to hear the appeal in Davis v. |
| 25 | Or act as it actually says in the constitution , the president shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states erm there was n't an airforce then so by extension it 's assumed that he commands the airforce as well . |
| 26 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 27 | The jaws are independent so the ring has to be centred carefully to permit turning with the removal of the least amount of material . |
| 28 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 29 | In addition , what is difficult will vary for different individuals and according to circumstances : some topics will themselves vary in difficulty ; some people will perceive the difficulty of the same task very differently ; and circumstances may make an otherwise easy task seem very hard . |
| 30 | English Heritage chooses now to stress the responsibility of the many boroughs of which London is made up : ‘ Our policy is , in consultation with the boroughs , and over an agreed programme , to withdraw from the exercise of our powers where we are duplicating their functions ’ . |