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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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% . |
| 11 | Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ? |
| 12 | Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | If it is inappropriate or if you are underprepared then the likelihood of success is reduced . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available . |
| 17 | If the resolution is increased to 2048 x 2048 then the number of bits per second to be transmitted rises to 209 715 200 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the relationship between risk and return is linear then the value of should not be significantly different from zero . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Is n't that exactly the kind of question lovers ask each other all the time ? |
| 23 | Er my Noble my Right Honourable Friend did take account of that and he did agree that hereafter the appointment of the Chairman should not be an appointment made by the Home Secretary , but that shou he should be one made by the full authority and that has I 'm glad to say met with with approval . |
| 24 | Is that just the name of the vaccine ? |
| 25 | At about 10 am the owner of the jetty arrives . |
| 26 | If the state is subjected to a requirement of comprehensive neutrality and if its duties to its citizens are very wide-ranging then the principle of comprehensive neutrality is a principle of neutrality indeed . |
| 27 | If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate . |
| 28 | When a Muslim group in Kokand declared an Autonomous Republic , the Soviet resolved to ‘ subordinate entirely the principle of national self-determination to socialism ’ and crush it . |
| 29 | Projected changes in the type and nature of work available in the economy render urgent both the investigation of occupational choices made by young people , and the attempt to influence these choices in a direction related to the realities of the changing occupational structure . |
| 30 | Whatever our judgment of Rawls ' principles on that account , at least if political neutrality is a coherent and desirable ideal then the impossibility of complete adherence to it need not undermine its force as a political doctrine . |