Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 2 | In Hebrew religion , and in that religion alone , man was joined to God by a quasi-legal covenant , as a result of which the ancient bond between man and nature was destroyed . |
| 3 | The first significant change to the political map of the Merovingian kingdom occurred with the campaign of Theudebert II and Theuderic II against Chlothar II in the year 600 , as a result of which the latter was left only with the territories of Beauvais , Amiens and Rouen . |
| 4 | Brunei assumed the chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in mid-1988 , as a result of which the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan in July 1989 [ see p. 36817 ] . |
| 5 | Dean 's weakness was his belief in the stage as the ideal source of film material , as a result of which the only films from ATP that secured broad popular appeal were those featuring Gracie Fields and George Formby . |
| 6 | After the first round of hanging reforms some forty years earlier , capital statutes were greatly reduced in number by the legislative changes of the early 1860s as a result of which the only common crime punishable by the death penalty became murder . |
| 7 | Its culmination is the Joint Committee , as a result of which the three UK and Irish Institutes now speak with one voice on ethical issues . |
| 8 | Measures taken by the authorities against the itinerant traders led to a crisis in the city government , as a result of which the Socialist mayor , Giorgio Morales , was forced to resign . |
| 9 | I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said . |
| 10 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 11 | Again , a clearer indication of what the right sentence in the Crown Court would have been without the discount for the fact that the case was a reference would make the decision more useful . |
| 12 | No indication of what the final result will look like is given as these codes are added , nor is there a preview capability . |
| 13 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 14 | Therefore , the apparent position of a click within a sentence is an indication of what the perceptual units of that sentence are . |
| 15 | Once you 've decided on the amount you need to borrow , you can get an indication of what the gross monthly repayments are likely to be from the tables provided in this booklet for amounts up to £5,000 . |
| 16 | There are a number of issues that already have and will continue to have direct bearing on day to day practice of which the major one will be the reverberating effects upon pre-school education of the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 17 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 18 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 19 | Such irony is , inevitably , part of the effect of what the fullest analysis of the narrative structure of the French fabliaux published to date , that of Mary Jane Stearns Schenk ( 1987 ) , finds to be an indispensable element in the fabliaux : a deception played by one or more characters on one or more other characters followed by a misdeed committed by the deceiver(s) . |
| 20 | In the light of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said , perhaps he will tell us two things : how much extra would he provide for health , and where does health come in Labour 's order of priorities ? |
| 21 | The detail of the Act and regulations made under it will be discussed later , in chapter 6 , in the light of what the main body of this report will show about how consumers think of and use credit . |
| 22 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 23 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 24 | There should be some monitoring of what the statutory agencies were doing in relation to West Belfast . |
| 25 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 26 | But that , he wrote , is part of what the big glass itself will try to explore , with its notion of delay . |
| 27 | We would need their agreement to build houses outside the city boundary and you know that this is part of what the Steering Committee will propose … |
| 28 | The carpets , together with a Chenille loom and a selection of valuable hand painting carpet designs , will be displayed in an area representing Glasgow 's industrial heritage of which the well-known Templeton 's factory played a significant part . |
| 29 | To move forward we are laying plans now so that we are in a position to take advantage of whatever the future offers . ’ |
| 30 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |