Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Gorbachev 's assurances to two Armenian emissaries that a ‘ just solution ’ would be found , the Supreme Soviet Presidium warned on 23 March that ‘ self-proclaimed groups ’ ( a reference to the Karabakh Committee , a group of Armenian activists whose activities were made illegal ) could not be allowed to call for the redrawing of state and administrative boundaries , and Pravda made clear that the transfer of . |
| 2 | However , few would argue that this has a determining influence on the size of the public sector or that such a diversity of actors can he described as a single ‘ elite ’ Rather , authors such as the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental relations and Rose and Peters in Britain tend to stress the plurality of causes of growth in public expenditure . |
| 3 | Bourdieu argues , however , that such a state of affairs would tend , not to impede , but to promote ‘ scientific progress ’ . |
| 4 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 5 | We have argued throughout that such a formulation of the problem is inappropriate , for it leads to a reification of human qualities for the purposes of comparison . |
| 6 | We saw earlier that such a relationship of passive dependency on a parental power perceived as essentially paternal might account for the undoubted paranoid elements which emerge along with the megalomania of the divine monarchs — itself the paranoid equivalent of depressive mania . |
| 7 | It now houses nearly three million volumes and each year an additional half a mile of shelving is needed . |
| 8 | Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation . |
| 9 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 10 | But the quartier did become much less the frame of reference for work , trade , and consumption for the popular classes . |
| 11 | Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted . |
| 12 | Priced at £8,700 , the company claims it is an incredible half the cost of an equivalent Sun box which retails at £16,300 . |
| 13 | It costs £8,700 , which the company claims is an incredible half the cost of an equivalent Sun box , which retails at £16,300 . |
| 14 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 15 | She left the room , conscious all the time of Richard 's devouring gaze . |
| 16 | And because she was conscious all the time of his pride in his own daughter Jenny , so much brighter , her diffidence and lack of self-confidence increased . |
| 17 | And on the Links motorway , the 13 kilometres of elevated road at the core of the country 's motorway network , repairs are so frequent that the Department of Transport issues weekly press releases . |
| 18 | This will equal half the cost of the factory , which should be up to full production of body panels by the end of next year . |
| 19 | We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand . |
| 20 | Add to all this the price of a well deserved holiday from it all at the end of your final term , and it is quite likely that you could be stretching your finances to the limit . |
| 21 | Is all this the work of dragons ? |
| 22 | Many Bolsheviks saw in all this the realisation of their aims as communists , but the reality was far from what the founding fathers of Marxian socialism had envisaged as being communism or socialism . |
| 23 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 24 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 25 | As that that would make all all a lot of crimes stop . |
| 26 | But for many more the importance of relatives — especially of grandmothers — lies in their availability as people who can be called upon in a crisis , or as people to fall back on when other arrangements break down . |
| 27 | We have seen that the Stonors and their associates served together on the Commission of the Peace , and the records of proceedings before the justices of the peace , although few in number , show how important such a group of local men was , acting along with one or two professional lawyers . |
| 28 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 29 | It is only when they come together to form a pattern which gets progressively worse that the probability of Chemical Dependency increases . |
| 30 | Make absolutely independent of one another the record of what has happened and the record of what is required are never married . |