Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 2 | In the British Forces there are more than ninety Royal Marine , Regimental and Royal Air Force bands , and the investment in music by the Ministry of Defence exceeds the public subsidy of the arts generally in Great Britain . |
| 3 | The use of installation denies the individual sculptural attention on which her pieces used to depend . |
| 4 | Sir Patrick declared : ‘ It of course remains the firm position of both the Government and the RUC that any ill-treatment of persons in custody is wholly unacceptable . ’ |
| 5 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 6 | Honey contains some sucrose as well as glucose and fructose ; 1 teaspoon of honey has the same amount of calories as one teaspoon of sucrose . |
| 7 | Analysis of the maintenance and reproduction of collectivism is divided over whether the tradition of collectivism encourages the voluntary conformity of individuals , or whether the sanctions on non-conformity are so great that individuals have no alternative . |
| 8 | This system of teaching advocates the flexible use , singly or in combination according to the need of the child , of a variety of additional methods of communication like reading , writing , mime , gesture and amplification of sound . |
| 9 | The crisis of visibility concerns the notorious secrecy that surrounds prisons and what goes on inside them . |
| 10 | In insert mode , typing into an existing block of text pushes the old text aside and adds to it . |
| 11 | Positive feedback enhances the initial release , but this is soon curtailed as the accumulation of calcium activates the negative feedback component . |
| 12 | Neither House of Parliament exercises the constitutional control over the minister in the Council which is exercised by the Danish Folketing Market Committee . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , fear of a reprise of dictatorship drives the German electorate to seek political stability , and widespread commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Nazi power has revived those fears . |
| 14 | Lewis never forgot that the military chain of command replicates the social scale , and the issues of the class war meant more to him than those of the fighting war . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly regulation of industry has the potential power to improve social welfare and to say we should abandon it because it may not always do so is nihilistic . |
| 16 | If the actual unemployment rate coincides with the natural rate , we must infer following Friedman , that the overall supply of labour equals the overall demand for labour at the market clearing real wage rate . |
| 17 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 18 | The process of feedback follows the same pattern of encoding , signalling and decoding . |
| 19 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 20 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |
| 21 | Discussion of statute raises the important problem of royal proclamations . |
| 22 | This new line of thinking replaces the traditional ESN(M) and ( S ) categories and places more emphasis on the individual needs of the children . |
| 23 | The use of these parameters in this type of study confirms the left hemisphere or right visual field advantage ( RVFA ) for verbal materials and the right hemisphere or left visual field advantage ( LVFA ) for visual materials ( Cohen , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | This three year programme of research examines the present and future effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( PACE ) and the Prosecution of Offences Act . |
| 25 | This manner of association places the two C-terminal stalk regions some 140 apart ( Fig.5 a ) , oriented so that their polypeptide chains can each continue into the membranes of separate cells . |
| 26 | A fall of snow makes the festive setting complete . |
| 27 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 28 | Gadamer has claimed that ‘ it is not until the Enlightenment that the concept of prejudice acquires the negative aspect we are all familiar with ’ ( 1979 : 240 ) . |
| 29 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 30 | Their names are inscribed in the Book of Enrolment and the season of Lent provides the perfect setting for the deep spiritual preparation they now journey on . |