Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 2 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 3 | More freedom with the box , but of course none of the joy of transparency . |
| 4 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 5 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm Jack Gordon , I 'm Director General of aircraft one with the Ministry of Defence . |
| 7 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 8 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 9 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 10 | Of course , it is an idealisation ; an engaging picture of a system of manufacture which at the beginning of the next century was still being described as " highly favourable to the paternal , filial , and fraternal happiness — and to the cultivation of good moral and civil habits — the sources of public tranquillity " . |
| 11 | The first is the large difference between the cost of providing some services and the amount of benefit which under the Bill would be held to be received . |
| 12 | The Bill would have altered the definition of rape which at the time was classified in the Italian Penal Code as a ‘ crime against morals and custom ’ , so that it became a crime of violence against the person . |
| 13 | We have derived the condition for the normal component of D. What about the tangential component ? |
| 14 | But he does , for instance , insert a brief aria-like refrain four times in a recitative scene in Act III for Arsete , the counsellor of the enchantress Falsirena : The important point is that Mazzocchi feared the tedium of recitative , and the theory has been advanced that his score originally contained less of this element , the male alto hero 's part being –full of canzonette' which at the singer 's request were replaced with recitatives by another composer , the monodist and late madrigalist Sigismondo d'India . |
| 15 | It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide . |
| 16 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 17 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 18 | But can we give as a definition of pragmatics nothing but the complement of , or the residue left by , semantics in the field of meaning ? |
| 19 | I , on the other hand , am in possession of powers which to the man in the street would appear awesome , inhuman , perhaps even godlike . |
| 20 | Working in conjunction effectively with you , our members , and it has to meet your needs and interests as well as our own , and I 'm therefore looking forward to the possibility , in fact , the certainty of us having a year of achievement us for the interests of the voluntary sector . |
| 21 | The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be . |
| 22 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 23 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 24 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 25 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 26 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 27 | But yet there 's no doubt at all that despite the technical shortcomings of his work in subsequent judgement , erm Russell by this work became , I suppose , the main founder of modern logic , the main founder of this kind of logic which by the much more sophisticated symbolic apparatus erm is able to panelize a much wider range of logical phenomena , and hence to reveal the structure in a way which had not been possible before . |
| 28 | Conviction oozes from every sentence like the very ichor of life itself from the metal life-support systems of the Bronze Giant of Fangorak . |
| 29 | The civilization founded on these existed in mature form in the United States of America in 1880 , and had just been extended , at last , to the whole of Europe itself outside the extreme south-eastern corner . |
| 30 | A surge of adrenaline which in the primeval swamp prepared the body to fight or flee . |