Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An additional measure of glycaemic control was provided by looking at the mean of all the glycated haemoglobin results for each patient since the date of randomisation and then calculating the mean of means for each group . |
| 2 | A weighted mean of all the scaled images is then calculated , with the weighting factor being selected in order to bias against the presence of any abnormalities . |
| 3 | ‘ SURE of foot , hard of hide , strong in constitution , frugal in diet , a first-rate weight carrier , indifferent to heat and cold , he combines the best of the most homely characteristics of both the noble houses from which he is descended . ’ |
| 4 | The operating characteristics of both the individual components and the circuit itself — voltages , currents and operating frequencies etc . |
| 5 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 6 | Using Newton 's typology , the New Urban Left councillor showed some of the characteristics of both the policy advocates and the policy spokesman . |
| 7 | At this point I could no longer contain my curiosity and rushed through to see what he looked like as he said it , thinking of all the teachers I know who would cherish these rare kind words . |
| 8 | An unaccustomed self-pity overtook him , sitting in the straw , and he went into a trance , thinking of all the ways he lost out , trying to think of one positive factor in his favour . |
| 9 | Sometimes , thinking of all the terrible problems in the world , particularly the horror of the possibility of nuclear war , one is overwhelmed by the sadness of it all , and reduced to tears of helplessness . |
| 10 | Huddling away from the draughts , she tried to keep up her spirits by thinking of all the hated things she had left behind — the sweeping and scrubbing and lugging coals ; Will 's taunts and Samson 's beatings ; the damp bed of straw and sacks in the cold scullery ; worst of all , the threat of being passed on to Garty Jenks . |
| 11 | Christina sighed , thinking of all the hard work and commitment , and the toll that building and operating Crystal Springs had taken on their marriage . |
| 12 | Thinking of all the other men who would envy him if they knew . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said reprovingly , looking at the unfinished grate and thinking of all the other duties which McAllister should have performed by now . |
| 14 | Learn how to do this by taking one colour , say yellow , and thinking of all the objects that come within that category . |
| 15 | She smoked her cigarette very slowly , trying not to cough and thinking of all the things she was going to do . |
| 16 | Thinking of all the other men who would envy him is they knew . |
| 17 | Rather it has the magnanimous ambition of offering the public a hands-on experience of the recent computerisation of all the data relating to the excavations . |
| 18 | He was a political associate of both the opposition leaders , George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham , and Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ qq.v . ] . |
| 19 | It is this being , the power behind the throne who acts as the unifying force of all the ‘ lesser ’ deities , who would more appropriately be described as the God of Hinduism . |
| 20 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 21 | In the years after the defeat of 1935 the Party formulated many of the policies on which it was to be returned in 1945 . |
| 22 | After the defeat of 1918 the policies of Frederick , Bismarck and Wilhelm II were to be taken up and extended quite logically ; the search for identity , for colonial holdings , the logic of industrial expansion , the ‘ question ’ of the eastern marches would all be solved and resolved in the Endlösung . |
| 23 | After the defeat of 1918 the conservative German government lost ground to the legatees of the Haketa , the Colonisation Commission and the Pan-German League . |
| 24 | Both Lansdowne and Law opted to announce their resignation at a party meeting , which would revive the open warfare over tariffs that had existed before 1906 , and this would ensure the defeat of all the other party causes too . |
| 25 | He is responsible for 100 married quarters and is President of all the handover/takeover boards . |
| 26 | Through his active involvement in European institutions — serving , for example , as president of both the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the OEEC — he had been given the accolade of being ‘ Mr Europe ’ . |
| 27 | He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency . |
| 28 | He will also hear a replay of the recording of the radio communications and take a copy-tape of all the relevant radio exchanges . |
| 29 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 30 | Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital . |