Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black let out a sigh then produced a bottle of whisky from the bottom drawer of his desk . |
| 2 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 3 | The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays . |
| 4 | His hair was untidy , as though it had been blown by the wind , and there were tiny flecks of moisture on the rough Harris tweed material of his jacket . |
| 5 | As he came closer , Dougal saw that there was a drop of moisture on the pink tip of his nose . |
| 6 | The first are conditions within Russia , such as large-scale exploitation in cities , suburbs , mining districts , etc. , the disparity between urban industrialisation and the medieval condition of the countryside , and the lack of unity of the ruling class . |
| 7 | This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide . |
| 8 | THE other 11 heads of state and government of the European Community last night closed ranks in an impressive display of unity against the sole opposition of Mrs Thatcher , to hold a special conference next year to amend the Treaty of Rome and open the way to economic and monetary union . |
| 9 | With hopes of unity in the Western Cape there is a real prospect of international rugby once again this season . |
| 10 | Various effects can be attributed to other instances of recurrent imagery besides that of merely providing a satisfactory feeling of unity in the narrative performance . |
| 11 | One can therefore conclude that there is a sense of unity throughout the catholic — nationalist population as a whole , though one in which certain groups , namely farming interests and the church , at both clerical and popular levels , have strategically dominated , at least until recently . |
| 12 | Dale Reid on the pace of play at the Belgian Open at Bercuit . |
| 13 | The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping . |
| 14 | The second distinction between the results here and those of Kreps and Wilson is the behaviour of play in the infinite time horizon case . |
| 15 | There is an element of assessment of the interpersonal skills used during the module and students will be asked to express their feelings and reactions to the experience as a whole . |
| 16 | The TGAT report is long and difficult in places , but has made a skilful attempt to match the best of teacher practice in the field of assessment with the general constraints imposed by TNC . |
| 17 | The normal means of assessment for the taught courses is written essay and in some cases an oral examination as well . |
| 18 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 19 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 20 | Look at the different requirements and forms of assessment in the following questions . |
| 21 | Table 1 shows the geometric centres of isotope in the ileocolonic segment after the concomitant 5HT and the series of ip drugs were given . |
| 22 | Law and Gilbert ( 1986 ) have made a survey of saltmarsh in the Western Isles , and their community definitions appear to be closely similar to those of the NVC . |
| 23 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 24 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 25 | She made a kind of progress up the Palladian marble stair . |
| 26 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 27 | By the end of June , however , the failure to agree on all of the details , together with the lack of progress over the nuclear issue , appeared to have jeopardized the planned exchange . |
| 28 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 29 | The Australian government also relaxed its ban on aid to Vietnam , as announced on Oct. 9 in a joint statement by Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and Trade Negotiations Minister Neal Blewett , in view of progress on the Cambodian settlement . |
| 30 | What really concerns him , however , is the lack of progress on the national strategy for waste disposal that arose from the Gradouge incident . |