Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows .
2 Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this .
3 It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized .
4 It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success .
5 Rapid changes in the field cause induced currents to f ow in power distribution networks , and if the induced currents are strong enough the supply of power can be disrupted .
6 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
7 And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty .
8 Their Neolithic context is confirmed by occurrences in the cairn of Cairnholy , south-west Scotland , in the causewayed enclosure at High Peak , Devonshire , and above all on the course of the Sweet timber trackway in the Somerset Levels dated in radiocarbon years to c. 3200 B.C. The absence of any trace of haft or binding under conditions exceptionally favourable for the survival of organic materials and the lack of the slightest sign of wear suggest that the jadeite celt was deposited as an unhafted and unused blade to fulfil a symbolic role .
9 In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers .
10 The interest of this text is that it makes clear both the availability of a remedy against a third party , and the fact that that party has notice of the existence of the trust ; and it apparently limits the availability of the missio to cases where the buyer does have notice : cases , therefore , in which bad faith is involved .
11 The penetrance of the dominant gene in adults was estimated at 0.26 hence the risk of disease in an adult offspring of a patient with ulcerative colitis induced by this gene may be 13% .
12 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
13 Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ?
14 Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ?
15 I explained in Chapter 2 how the sequence of bases in DNA is translated into the sequence of amino acids in proteins .
16 And on another : Here it is manifest how the Way of Life is found only through a Death , and that , without the deprival of all other knowledge , Self Knowledge itself is not to be achieved .
17 If it is inappropriate or if you are underprepared then the likelihood of success is reduced .
18 Is this how the head of the security police was passing his time ?
19 If the production quantities are very high then the purchase of a simple drafting system may be justified and an investment could be made in some CAM equipment .
20 If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available .
21 Indeed , it was far from clear how the abolition of these authorities would save money .
22 Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task , and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed .
23 • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case .
24 If the resolution is increased to 2048 x 2048 then the number of bits per second to be transmitted rises to 209 715 200 .
25 If the torque/position characteristics for one phase excitation is notably non-sinusoidal then the effect of two-phases-on excitation can be checked quite easily using the graphical summation method .
26 If the relationship between risk and return is linear then the value of should not be significantly different from zero .
27 Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name .
28 She could no longer see the Steep yet the feeling of the dark airless room she had left behind , the sound of her foster-parents breathing heavily in the close darkness , still seemed to hang about her and draw her back .
29 the Victoria County History goes so far as to suggest that the early nineteenth century prosperity of Leicester , based partly on the transport of hosiery goods by canal to London was ‘ probably due in no small degree to the fact that from 1802 onwards the development of communication had largely been completed . ’
30 Viewed in this way it is clear why the separation of rules governing the use of means of warfare from those on the initiation of conflict has proved increasingly difficult to maintain .
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