Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | so that even if we get a young person coming out of the workshops that may not be the best electrician going , we can find them something in a related area — an electrical warehouse , where their knowledge of the bits that they know will be put to good use and they 'll still be in that environment they want to work in . |
| 2 | Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead . ’ |
| 3 | They came to a wonderful peak towards the end of his life where his love of the countryside , its changing weather , lights and moods brought forth a series of remarkable , free-spirited watercolours . |
| 4 | The salaried partner will rarely agree to accept full responsibility for the debts of the firm along with the equity partners where his share of the profits is finite and his involvement in management restricted . |
| 5 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 6 | Diaper 's best poetry is contained in Nereides and the translation of Oppian , where his descriptions of the ocean and of aquatic life are startling and individual . |
| 7 | His influence can clearly be seen in both Fabianism , where his analysis of the unearned increment reached a receptive audience , and New Liberalism , which developed his later concerns about distributive justice . |
| 8 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 9 | I can not devote a whole book to the subject , so my descriptions of the numerous cheeses available will be rather brief . |
| 10 | I seemed to be taking up more than my share of the space , and the grief was bad again . |
| 11 | Yet although her capacity for distortion is well known and although her account of the genesis has been questioned ( Erich Podach has called it " untenable " , nicht haltbar ) its substance is still widely accepted — by her brother 's latter-day detractors no less than his admirers . |
| 12 | Civic Forum remained the most popular organization , although its share of the vote fell to 36 per cent , compared with 49.5 per cent in the June Czech National Council election . |
| 13 | Two leaders of the Reform Circle movement , Csaba Tabajdi and Ferenc Gazso , are missing from the new line-up , while the People 's Democracy Platform , the reformists ' left-wing allies , seemed to have got more than their share of the leading places . |
| 14 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 15 | It would appear from these results that children 's grasp of the deductive mode is less secure than their grasp of the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 16 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 17 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 18 | It has been officially reckoned by educationalists that school-leavers of yesteryear ( even at 14 ) were far more advanced in the three R's and the sciences than their counterparts of the present day who leave at 16 . |
| 19 | At the European Commission Walesa said that " neither today nor tomorrow will there be a more important issue for Poland than her membership of the EC " . |
| 20 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 21 | In Britain , the Regional Library Bureaux have consistently handled both interlending and cooperative acquisition programmes , although their share of the total national interlending activity is only 8% — largely derived from handling types of material which are not stocked by the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC — see below ) . |
| 22 | The book took more than its share of the available table space ; but at least she had a legitimate job . |
| 23 | The team at SAUS is collaborating with a team at the University of Bath in a study of Swindon , an expanding town on the M4 which is thought to have received more than its share of the benefits of economic change . |
| 24 | De Marco inspected refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , although his tour of the Jabaliyah refugee camp in Gaza had to be cut short after disturbances erupted there . |
| 25 | He also greatly enjoyed Kenneth Horne , although his memory of the show in his autobiography was somewhat limited . |
| 26 | King ( 1967 ) is still useful for its descriptions of the continental landscapes of plate interiors although his interpretations of the tectonic processes involved have now been superseded by more recent work . |
| 27 | M. G. Segal and C. C. Morris reply : We welcome Dr Dyer 's comments on the mechanisms of metal ion binding to zeolites , although his use of the word ‘ misleading ’ is hardly justified . |
| 28 | Dewey 's thought was mainly influenced by Hegel , although his appreciation of the organic unity of life also caused him to be attracted to the lessons of Darwinian biology . |
| 29 | His critique of the alternative is more convincing than his defence of the status quo . |
| 30 | More remarkable than his treatment of the mistress as recipient or subject-matter of the sonnets is Shakespeare 's treatment of the man who fills that role in the first 126 poems . |