Example sentences of "[vb base] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING his triumphant rookie win in his Indycar debut at Surfers Paradise in Australia , Nigel Mansell will now be the spearhead of a campaign to help his new formula displace Formula One as the world 's most popular motorsport . |
| 2 | Building for fun Eurodisney is the spearhead of a movement that aims to turn architecture into a branch of show-business . |
| 3 | There it is made clear that Urban Development Corporations , the spearhead of the development thrust , ‘ are the most important attack ever made on urban decay ’ ( ibid . |
| 4 | It was the spearhead of the contest between King Henry II and his archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Becket . |
| 5 | HOLD Thames Water , bellwether of the sector , at 416p , and buy Anglian Water at 411p and Wessex Water at 456p , says County NatWest . |
| 6 | While the Silures and their allies had fought a long and successful guerrilla-type campaign , they did not possess the strength or ability to stop a large Roman force from advancing into their territory , nor had they command of the sea . |
| 7 | People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them . |
| 8 | Columns 1–3 are mutually exclusive , but any of these border of the mandible ( column 4 . ) |
| 9 | Do they have something to offer nursing , or are they just ‘ flavour of the month ’ Peter Mason investigates |
| 10 | Also , it will be very interesting to examine the Davis Cup record of those ‘ flavour of the month ’ players such as Courier , Sampras etc in about 10 years time . |
| 11 | International interest in the sue of the plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel has led to a joint venture with BNFL . |
| 12 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
| 13 | Defining the relative fluctuations in mass density as where is the mean mass density of the Universe , we can relate the variance , , of mass-density fluctuations on a scale R to the power spectrum by Rayleigh 's theorem where is the Fourier transform of a window function on a scale R . |
| 14 | In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant . |
| 15 | With the usual notation , and taking both the current in the circuit and the charge associated with the capacitance to be initially zero as before , Kirchhoff 's voltage law gives Thus , making use of the Laplace transform of given in equation ( 11.28 ) , the Laplace transform of the current is where again and . |
| 16 | 11.8 Plot in the s-plane of the poles of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f . |
| 17 | The poles , , of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f. , which were deduced in the previous section , exhibit interesting behaviour . |
| 18 | We now introduce the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation such that ( R(s) being an even function ) . |
| 19 | Thus this procedure measures the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function . |
| 20 | I have n't felt that melt of the heart since Cameron , she thought . |
| 21 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 22 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 23 | ‘ Your plays are very clever , Ben , ’ Richard Burbage said , ‘ but they smell of the schoolbook , do n't they , Will ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So you 've just elected yourself Boss of the Beach , huh ? ’ |
| 25 | Slavish conformity is not what we want of a child . |
| 26 | " This Meeting having with much regret felt the Inconveniences arising to the Island for the Want of a Jail , wherein Disturbers of the Peace and other Transgressors of the Law might be Confined … are of the opinion that Shawfield should be apply 'd to , and these Grievances Stated , that he may of course procure the Sherriff 's warrant to have a Jail Established … " |
| 27 | Apart from the obvious disadvantage of not being able to view your slide without a projector or viewer , the problem arises when one wants an extra set of slides or prints , say of a spawning sequence . |
| 28 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 29 | I heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) say of the poll tax that it was the most misconceived legislation ever . |
| 30 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |