Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes . |
| 2 | Estimates for the period 1977 to 1980 were provided by Canadian and Norwegian scientists In this case the Norwegian scientist 's estimate was in the mid-range of the others . |
| 3 | Henry Hanna , the provincial of the Carmelites , had resurrected the ancient university when he founded a school in St. George 's Square in the 1250s . |
| 4 | There is greater awareness amongst those who work with and for the elderly of the ways in which we manufacture social and economic dependency . |
| 5 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
| 6 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 7 | North had charge of several covert operations , many of which are still secret ; his brief included counter-terrorism , as well as the sending of arms to Iran and the resupply of the contras . |
| 8 | North sat down beside him and whispered , ‘ Max has shut down the resupply of the pilots . ’ |
| 9 | The reason why we differentiate between the south east and south west is also important because the southern of the bridges , the Skeldergate Bridge in York is by far the most heavily congested on the inner ring road and in particularly in going in the west to east direction , so the south west sector scores worse in that respect because it feeds traffic on to the most congested bridge of the inner ring road . |
| 10 | The northernmost of the islands is Alderney and in times past it was common to describe all Channel Island cattle as being of the Alderney breed , even when they were clearly Jersey , Guernsey or small French dairy types . |
| 11 | It shaped the aesthetic of the lyrics and meditations concerned with the life of Christ which they wrote to convey their understanding imaginatively . |
| 12 | Subsidence Claims Advice leaflet ( PC17 ) should be issued to policyholders in every case where a subsidence claim has been intimated as this will forewarn the insured of the procedures and timescales likely to be involved . |
| 13 | And in the thick of the coupés , the victorias , phaetons and landaus … the carriages from the Tuileries . |
| 14 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 15 | Within seconds it stops and I can tell from the direction of the line that the bait is lying in the thick of the roots . |
| 16 | Chidi Imo , with whom I was to have some great races in the future and who became a friend , was in the thick of the arguments . |
| 17 | On the other hand , many modern historians do not take the trouble to understand this administrative structure , or the diplomatic of the documents they use , which limits their ability to move between record series and across departments . |
| 18 | A description by an ancillary of the abilities of the school 's stencil cutter or Caramate slide-tape presenter can be the key to innovation , because the teacher suddenly recognizes what is possible , as distinct from a lot of theory whose implementation he has previously understood imperfectly if at all . |