Example sentences of "[vb base] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so . |
| 2 | They are the spearhead of the Imperial army , capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances . |
| 3 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
| 4 | Bryan Robson , who steered England 's soccer team to the World Cup Finals , receives the OBE , Linford Christie , the Olympic silver medal winner and spearhead of the British team which won the European Cup and placed third in the World Cup , is awarded the MBE , as does Ellery Hanley , leader of the Great Britain rugby league side . |
| 5 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 7 | Notice , too , that the Laplace transform of a relevant Kirchhoff equation can be written down immediately when there is no energy stored in the circuit initially . |
| 8 | Hence the Laplace transform of unit impulse is or The Laplace transform of a delayed unit impulse is of course |
| 9 | To illustrate the partial fraction method , suppose that the inverse Laplace transform of the simple function is needed . |
| 10 | The closure problem has come through in the appearance of another function F in the equation for E ; F is related to the Fourier transform of the triple correlation . |
| 11 | An important equation in the theory of homogeneous isotropic turbulence is obtained by considering the Fourier transform of the double velocity correlation . |
| 12 | In the former case and assuming that is zero when With regard to the Laplace transform of an integral function and assuming that when the required transform is Note that is to be interpreted as the initial value of the integral quantity . |
| 13 | want of a better name at this stage . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought a quick gallop , a guzzle of the local tincture and a few snaps to record the event for posterity . ’ |
| 15 | However , if you are replaced by another employee , say of a lower grade and commanding less pay , there is unlikely to be a redundancy . |
| 16 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 17 | They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch . |
| 18 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 19 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 20 | Re-reading them today one is reminded of what nonsense these individuals make of the bitter squabbles between Snow and F. R. Leavis nearly a century later . |
| 21 | How the House is televised is important ; far more important is how the House is broadcast — the use the broadcasters make of the clean feed they are given . |
| 22 | At Pipewell in Northamptonshire , earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet , mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings . |
| 23 | It is also basilican and parts remain of the earlier work . |
| 24 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
| 25 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 26 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
| 27 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 28 | Light-cured glass ionomers consist of a complex mixture of components . |
| 29 | They consist of a complete system but without specific knowledge from the area of expertise , which must be provided by the user . |
| 30 | The simplest hoods consist of a curved extension at the top of the bag tightened with a drawcord . |