Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value .
2 It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value .
3 He ran out of coins and asked the company secretary to ring him back .
4 There was a place — he recalled it now — Burkett had pointed it out to him when they were fishing on Derwent Water — a sheer cliff coming suddenly out of woods and fronting the valley .
5 The research will also trace the development of policies and identify the implications for future policy-making , local and national .
6 The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way .
7 ‘ As a result of very careful housekeeping , we have been able to deal with our list of creditors and to bring the cash problem under firm control .
8 Jon Thompson has n't done any investigative homework in accepting Celant 's list of artists and repeating the familiar texts .
9 The functionalist style in public law exhibits tendencies to examine critically the reasoning processes of courts and to expose the value assumptions on which they rest .
10 It suggests that huge amounts of extra money could be made available for the homeless , improving the condition of houses and tackling the growing shortage of affordable homes for rent if local housing companies were created .
11 Other shortlisted entries in Category 1 came from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Help the Aged .
12 The whole system forged bonds between the churches , made for standardization and improvement in the hearing of cases and increased the importance of the pope at the centre .
13 If , however , the expenditure is not so recoverable , the tenant may have to agree either to forego such services out of hours or to pay the costs of them .
14 ‘ If you 've any sense you 'll grab a pair of skis and do the same .
15 Snow had fallen , frosting the rooftops , lying along the tops of hedges and muffling the faraway sound of the icy sea .
16 He 's an ungrateful bastard at the best of times but biting the hand that feeds you while it 's feeding you is a bit out of order .
17 You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled …
18 Dennis Rogers , 37 , used a knife in 45F heat to prod his way past scores of mines and reach the pair , aged 10 and 13 .
19 Wilson fears for education generally , that the market pressures could bring in an entrepreneurial ethos which could change the nature of institutions and leave the morality of the market-place unchallenged .
20 The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion .
21 I remember once Nigel picked up his bag of clubs and flung the lot into the woods .
22 In the Usnea-Andreaea association of lichens and mosses the two named genera are usually represented , together with other species of lichens and algae .
23 Classification schemes specialize in showing networks of subjects and displaying the relationships between subjects , and thus are particularly suited to achieving the second objective .
24 The first is quite simply to set better papers , to make sure that panels who evolve objectives and plan the content of the primary school curriculum assume control of the evaluation process , at the same time to reconsider the weighting of subjects and revise the languages in which they are set .
25 To reject the self-determination of nations and insert the self-determination of the working people would be absolutely wrong , because this manner of settling the question does not reckon with the difficulties , with the zigzag course taken by differentiation within nations .
26 Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph
27 The FDA complied with the legislation regarding the registration of parties and submitted the necessary 3,000 signatures .
28 Our small scale numbers confirm the earlier studies quoted , that is , that older children especially , seem able to distinguish between different types of relationships and to have the capacity to relate to more than one set of parent figures simultaneously .
29 The orthodox Catholic Church disapproves of the use of contraceptives and regards the state family planning programme as an attack on moral decency and a licence for sexual promiscuity .
30 One way to achieve this is to identify semantically related pairs of words and compare the performance of the technique using these pairs to that of unrelated pairs .
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