Example sentences of "of [noun pl] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 2 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 3 | Couple 's joy : Alison Kitchen , 28 , and her husband David , 31 , who live in Hartlepool , are celebrating the birth of triplets the first test tube babies to be born at the town 's general hospital . |
| 4 | However , in the case of mergers the proposed changes are largely procedural , and no significant reorientation of present policy is envisaged . |
| 5 | The idea of the charter , launched on Monday at the Rockwell nature conservation area off Martindale Road , Darlington , was to inform people of the type of improvements the local authority would work towards . |
| 6 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 7 | Very often these mispronunciations were corrected when the subject repeated the speech , and in about 50 per cent of cases the correct pronunciation was restored with no disruption of the fluency of shadowing . |
| 8 | In a number of cases the jurisdictional facts will be expressed in terms of a subjective open textured discretion : the if X element will be ‘ if the Minister thinks fit , necessary , etc. , he may do … . ’ |
| 9 | In the majority of cases the homoeopathic remedy appeared to work effectively and it was rare for the patient to require the conventional therapy . |
| 10 | In a proportion of cases the first site of infection is the cervix , when there may not be any local pain . |
| 11 | In perhaps 50 per cent of cases the final diagnosis depends on confirmatory results from the pathology laboratory and these take from two to seven days to come back to the clinic . |
| 12 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 13 | In the vast majority of cases the occupational classification used in the census and at death registration is the same , but the term unoccupied might be interpreted differently . |
| 14 | In the vast majority of cases the 6th potency will work just as well as the 30th and does not require such accuracy . |
| 15 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 16 | There was a drastic thaw , and in a matter of hours the unmetalled road turned to liquid mud . |
| 17 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 18 | Here n i is the number of times the ith symmetry species appears in Γ y , h is the order of the point group ( equal to the total number of symmetry operations , and given at the head of the character table ) , g r is the number of equivalent symmetry operations of type R , and Xi ( R ) is the character listed for operation R for this symmetry species in the character table . |
| 19 | Despite the Council of Guardians the different lords are levying troops and fortifying castles , preparing for war if peace fails . |
| 20 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 21 | If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) . |
| 22 | In the field of tactics the main interest of the eighteenth century lies in the slow modification of the traditional line formation of troops on the field of battle by the new or rediscovered idea of attack in column . |
| 23 | The former meaning may be loosely paraphrased as : ( 26 ) one of the feats commonly expected of acrobats The second meaning can not be paraphrased by ( 26 ) . |
| 24 | By wiping the screen with a special tissue every couple of months the electrostatic field that builds up on a monitor screen can be discharged . |
| 25 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 26 | Thus for the launch of a new range of soups the specific mailing list would include the following groups : |
| 27 | The list of HMG-box containing proteins is growing rapidly , comprising a variety of functions the common activity of which seems to be their ability to bind DNA through this domain ( 3-9 ) . |
| 28 | By adopting a contractual conception of the company the legal model gives as the reason for the vesting of centralized authority to manage the company in the board of directors the contractual agreement of the owners of the company . |
| 29 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 30 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |