Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The General Staff was left with unenviable task of deploying a smaller army than was needed in such a way as to reduce the risks of the Sandys Reformation .
2 Commenting on the prize , Lord Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , said : ‘ Literature is one of the greatest arts of the United Kingdom and perhaps our finest gift to the world .
3 Two new volumes commissioned while it was still under the Penguin name are Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789 by Sir Michael Levey which is an entirely rewritten version of the paintings section of the French eighteenth-century paintings and sculpture volume published in the 1970s and The Pictorial Arts of the West 800–1200 by Reginald Dodwell .
4 [ O. Pächt , C. R. Dodwell , and F. Wormald , The St Albans Psalter , 1960 ; R. M. Thomson , Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066–1235 , 1982 ; C. R. Dodwell , The Pictorial Arts of the West 800–1200 , 1991 . ]
5 THE latest attacks highlight the constantly-changing tactics of the IRA .
6 Countering the destructive tactics of the IRA is difficult .
7 But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent .
8 Togliatti 's apparent cold indifference to the fate of his fellow countrymen shocked many and seemed likely to damage the electoral chances of the PDS and the PRC , the two parties which were the direct successors of the PCI .
9 In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) .
10 The outline of the paper is as follows : Section 2 highlights some basic characteristics of the UK fertilizer industry ; Section 3 outlines a theoretical framework based on a model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) ; Section 4 derives expressions for the policies ; Section 5 calibrates the theoretical model with data from the UK fertilizer market ; Section 6 presents an assessment of the actual policy outcomes compared with those suggested by the theoretical framework ; and finally , Section 7 reports the results of sensitivity analysis .
11 Characteristics of the UK fertilizer industry
12 Characteristics of the UK labour market
13 Our analysis of the main early and late promoters ( P A2b and P A3 , respectively ) of B.subtilis phage φ29 has indicated that they share many of the functional characteristics of the E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters .
14 Perhaps the most admirable characteristics of the Masai in the eyes of the men whose job it was to administer them were their honesty , directness , and highly developed sense of justice .
15 What are the main characteristics of the Suffolk breed of horse ?
16 If one were asked the question what are the four chief characteristics of the Suffolk horse ? the answer would certainly be — colour , quality , compactness and hardy constitution . ’
17 If adopted , both proposals would increase the supranational characteristics of the EEC .
18 What the package meant for France , therefore , was that if it wanted an agriculture settlement , it would have to accept an increase in the supranational characteristics of the EEC .
19 For our purposes , one of the most important characteristics of the Essenes was their apocalyptic vision — their insistence that the Last Times were at hand and that the advent of the Messiah was imminent .
20 Here we describe plutonic and volcanic rocks from the Cordillera Blanca complex in Peru , which have characteristics of the high-Al TTD suite but which were produced above a subduction zone containing a 60-Myr-old slab .
21 In an interview published in Sri Lanka 's The Island newspaper , Mr Jayaweera outlined three unique characteristics of the Bill :
22 It had all the characteristics of the Chapman style — swift , direct , efficient .
23 This evidence suggests that , whatever one 's model of visual word-recognition is , the model should share one of the basic characteristics of the Johnston-McClelland model , namely , that excitatory and inhibitory connections may be vertical ( between-level ) but not horizontal ( within-level ) .
24 Characteristics of the Tunguska event
25 Even somebody as talented as Cadalora may have trouble adapting to the special steering characteristics of the Honda .
26 A partial answer for the failure of that explanation is provided here , by looking at the characteristics of the Nottinghamshire mining communities which apparently set them apart from those of their neighbours further north .
27 Not for her the shops of the Boulevard or Bond Street .
28 Out in the waterways of the Gulf , the days were calm , apart from the occasional strong north wind , or shemaal .
29 A source which is denied to those of us who do not have the Gaelic is in the songs of the Islay bards .
30 A source which is denied to those of us who do not have the Gaelic is in the songs of the Islay bards .
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