Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 2 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 3 | If the power should be exercised solely for the financial gain of the remaining partners the expulsion will not be upheld — as in Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 , where the motive for the purported removal of Mr Blisset was rather his remaining partners ' desire to acquire his share at a low valuation as provided in the partnership deed than any misconduct on his part . |
| 4 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 5 | She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered . |
| 6 | On each of the six nights the auditorium was packed to capacity with a seating of 1,500 . |
| 7 | Betacom is giving each of the six finalists a Betacom Venture cordless telephone ( £79.99 ) . |
| 8 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 9 | In some of the applied sciences the number of hours may be considerable while in an Arts course the formal teaching periods may be relatively few . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp reiterated its pledge to support the MIPS chip with NT at a meeting of the ACE remnants the week before last : there 's no talk of making NT XPG3-compliant . |
| 11 | Erm firstly that if an existing employment use falls to another land use , this is what Mr Allenby was just saying , the subsequent release of employment land onto the market does not come out of the sixty hectares the structure plan 's asking for , that 's what that 's what Mr Allenby just said , I hope he wo n't come back on it , major point . |
| 12 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 13 | In each of the early civilizations the emphasis rested on opaque or translucent stones , in China on jade , but elsewhere on different forms of chalcedony , lapis lazuli and turquoise , the qualities of each of which could be displayed effectively by the simple process of polishing their surfaces smooth . |
| 14 | Edward Coleman , second Professor ( Principal ) of the College , said Hunter was one of the best friends the College ever had . |
| 15 | ‘ It was one of the best classes the school has ever had , quite an academic one . |
| 16 | Not only is he one of the best goalkeepers the country ever produced , but the only Scottish internationalist who can honestly claim he was involved in the mysterious case of the missing meat . |
| 17 | In most of the authoritative cases the direction is taken to be the steering and the movement is taken to be the acceleration and braking . |
| 18 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) That for the purpose of the taking of the said accounts the master has power under Ord. 62 , r. 24 to direct that any items of costs , fees , charges , disbursements , expenses and remuneration in the said accounts be taxed by a taxing officer on the indemnity basis . |
| 20 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 21 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
| 22 | A ‘ Grolier ’ binding is one of the greatest treasures a collector could wish for . |
| 23 | Well one of the greatest qualities a fisherman can have is of course patience . |
| 24 | The most strategically important reason for investing in flat panel display technology , however , is that with continued miniaturisation of the integrated circuits the display itself will become the platform on which the system is built . |
| 25 | Hair apparently benefited : of the 120 volunteers a total of 37 stated that the condition of their hair had actually improved whilst almost all the remainder reported no deterioration whatsoever . |
| 26 | The Divisional Court referred to the Court of Justice of the European Communities the question whether Community law affected the conditions which a member state might prescribe for the entry of vessels in its national register and the right of vessels to fly its flag and carry its nationality . |
| 27 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 28 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 29 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 30 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |