Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island . |
2 | Moreover , the technology is available to transpose that part of the chromosome into a related species which will then produce offspring bearing the particular characteristic . |
3 | The effect of changing the excitation from stack A to stack B is to produce alignment of the stator and rotor teeth in stack B. This new alignment is made possible by a movement of the rotor in the clockwise direction ; the motor moves one " step " as a result of the excitation change . |
4 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
5 | In the second instance public criticism of the policing of the urban disorders and riots of 1981/82 , coupled with mounting evidence of systematic discrimination against the black community , created a situation in which the practices of the ‘ copper on the beat ’ came under close scrutiny both from within the force itself and from various watchdog bodies . |
6 | These observations , though few , have provided critical evidence of the depth of the causative fault ( 14–15 kilometres ) , while evidence from the main shock showed the fault to be a strike-slip fault . |
7 | Shackleton , Ries , and Coward ( 1982 ) made estimates of the depth of the main Variscan decollement in southwestern England based on cleavage attitudes and shortening , and concluded that a thin-skinned model was appropriate and that the granites are rootless . |
8 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
9 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
10 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
11 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
12 | Firstly the general observation of land-use change from the centre of Nottingham , in the determination of the limits of the Central Business District or CBD . |
13 | The fact that " educated females " were the desired targets of the newspaper advertisement suggests that the " philanthropic " nature of the experiments of the 1860s was uppermost in the minds of the employers . |
14 | Annual population estimates give a rather different impression of the phasing of the pace of the urban-rural shift over time ( Champion , 1981 , 1987b ) . |
15 | After several attempts at attracting attention with the knocker he walked round the side of the cottage to the back garden . |
16 | He walked back around the side of the cottage to the open kitchen window , where the two girls were putting the packed food into a basket . |
17 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
18 | Remembering the old adage that forewarned was forearmed , she parked her car just out of sight of the cottage down a little side lane . |
19 | He struck a fine short iron over the bunker and right into the heart of the green at the 12th , and at last a putt found its mark from perhaps eight feet . |
20 | For weeks on end in 1942 and 1943 and early 1944 , before the Western Allies had launched their invasion of Normandy , the progress of the battle on the eastern front had been the principal item in the national newspapers , whatever their political complexion . |
21 | The immediate result of the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 had been the succession of Theoderid 's eldest son , Thorismund . |
22 | Before the mid-650s the Anglian frontier had also been extended to include Iudeu or Giudi , identified as probably Stirling ; Oswiu retreated here on the eve of the battle of the Winwaed ( HB chs 64 , 65 ) . |
23 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
24 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
25 | It is a Hall of Mirrors built in 1891 , the last room of which contains a panorama of the battle against the Swedish troops in 1648 . |
26 | She has three spells dealt to her at the start of the battle in the usual way as described in Warhammer Battle Magic . |
27 | That of the papers of the Scottish Craft Centre is substantially complete . |
28 | There was an article on Frank in one of the papers in the last few days , I 'll see if I can dig it out . |
29 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
30 | Only thus can the selection and ranking of candidates be rationally managed , the nomination of the second candidate being approved in full awareness of the selection of the first , the nomination of the third being approved after the selection of the first two , and so on . |