Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There was a vague smell of drains in the still air , of a cesspool somewhere .
2 The formula of an ionic compound shows the simplest ratio of ions in the ionic lattice .
3 Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent .
4 However , Russia formally protested to the Council of Europe over the status of Russians in the Baltic states , it was reported in The Baltic Independent of May 15-21 .
5 The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel .
6 As an organising principle collective security was expected to underpin an Asian ‘ coalition ’ of states under the Soviet aegis , which would constitute a barrier against the emergence of Chinese influence in the 1970s .
7 A poor rule will not be penalised until the Nth attempt at search , where N is the number of states in the entire search subspace accessible through this rule .
8 In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith .
9 Second , a number of states in the Hellenistic period reduced the weight of their coinage .
10 In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete .
11 Such sparse coverage necessitates the estimation of values for the missing transitions .
12 However , if hydrostatic theory is then used to calculate the possible range of values of the polar moment of inertia C from the axial spin period T a and the allowed values up to the upper limit of either f or J 2 , the calculated range of values of C is so wide that no useful constraints on the variation of density with depth are obtained .
13 Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe .
14 This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times .
15 As Colin MacCabe has pointed out , in the hierarchy of discourses in the classic realist text , the visual is privileged .
16 How political and social systems work , how disadvantage and oppression are established and maintained is not easy to make visible , and it is the visible which is privileged in the hierarchy of discourses within the classic realist text .
17 I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill .
18 A team of experts from the European Community has concluded that the environment of the Gulf polluted by the war in the region in early 1991 can be saved but will never fully recover .
19 As with his architectural assaults , he trawled for information from a wide range of experts in the environmental field , including the pressure group Friends of the Earth , whose director at that time was Jonathon Porritt .
20 The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’
21 ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) .
22 Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control …
23 Giving further solidity to the PTGI set-up have been the recent moves into the fields of distribution and having a wider portfolio of products with the United Distillers range of spirits brands .
24 The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years .
25 The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years .
26 These additional products will be integrated into the Contract Portfolio of products in the near future , further increasing the scope of what is already a large choice .
27 Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand .
28 Within two years of the investment the company , realizing that it could now offer customers more custom-built specifications , was producing a considerable range of products from the new machines .
29 Commodity circulation has been replaced by the circulation of products within the national economy , in much the same manner as products circulate within an oligopoly or conglomerate firm .
30 At the end of 1862 Chicherin gave his letter to Herzen a wider currency by assigning it pride of place in a book of essays on the principal political questions of the day .
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