Example sentences of "[det] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 2 | Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans . |
| 3 | Is his J a middle initial or half of a first initial ? ) and K.J. Shine , as well as A.J. Wright , R.J. Scott , P.J. Prichard and N.J. Lenham , so we could have two J sides with no trouble . |
| 4 | In each of the semi-roundels , adjacent to the central square , are two lotus buds linked by a fillet ( in the panels to the left and right of the lion ) and half of a sixteen-petalled flower enclosed by simple guilloche ( in the panels above and below the lion ) . |
| 5 | At the opposite extreme of m = 1 , the half-section is half of a constant-k T-section and equation ( 9.66 ) shows that in this case the load gives rise to input impedance , the characteristic impedance of the corresponding Π-section . |
| 6 | The reality is that we are dealing with half of a metropolitan region because it is manageable on this scale for the study of residential patterns and it makes sense to review base at the same level . |
| 7 | They were paid by these , and by the pennies of helpless men and women who might be forced to cross half of a strange continent before even embarking on the Atlantic crossing : from central Europe to Le Havre , or across the North Sea and via the smoky Pennine valleys to Liverpool . |
| 8 | It owns half of a French rating agency , ADEF , and all of Nordisk , a Swedish firm . |
| 9 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 10 | ( The dose of radiation that would kill half of a human population within 60 days is the LD 50/60 . |
| 11 | The method involved forms half of a genetic algorithm . |
| 12 | In answer to ‘ what can I offer them ? ’ a short explanation that every member receives the Annual Report and 3 editions of Medau News which with postage accounts for half of a full membership fee , the remaining money goes towards administration expenses . |
| 13 | But within the England training camp , Carlton Palmer is half of a double act that has transformed the atmosphere in Graham Taylor 's squad , banishing the gloom of Sweden . |
| 14 | Bill used to be half of a double act with Dave Allen . |
| 15 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 16 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 17 | The debt owed by these nations totals $630 billion — about half of the developing world 's total debt . |
| 18 | They concluded that because approximately half of the 5 gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere each year by the consumption of fossil fuel remains in the atmosphere , the world temperature has already been affected . |
| 19 | The passage is concerned not only with objects of perception , but with the process of perceiving them ; the occurrence of first person pronouns ( over half of the personal pronouns are of this type ) is a symptom of this(37) |
| 20 | The phase is excited for half of the total cycle and therefore the d.c. component is half of the unipolar supply voltage ( V = V /2 ) and the fundamental component is v = 2 V/n . |
| 21 | It is known that , in vivo , half of the superhelical density is restrained by DNA-binding proteins , so that the free superhelical density has a value close to -0.025 ( 29 , 30 ) . |
| 22 | Thurmaston 's northerly neighbour , Syston , had 54 framework knitters , 5 framesmiths and 3 woolcombers recorded in the parish register between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , but these craftsmen formed less than half of the 128 entries . |
| 23 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 24 | A secret report into the laboratory 's future concluded that the cheapest option was to close the laboratory , lay off half of the 200 scientists and move the rest to the government laboratories run by AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | Almost half of the seventeen DUP candidates for the 1973 Assembly were Free Presbyterians . |
| 26 | Built with French technology , the Caju plant will process half of the 1,120 tons of rubbish collected daily in the Brazilian city into 600 tons of an organic compost known as fertilube . |
| 27 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 28 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 29 | Ideological differences did not prevent the Community from taking more than half of the Eastern bloc 's exports to the non-communist world , whilst the Eastern bloc absorbed high-technology goods from Western Europe . |
| 30 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |