Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a number of feminist authors have tended to view some of the 1960s legislation as ‘ liberalising ’ , they have sought to distinguish the identification of such a trend from any notion of ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 2 | And around about sixty percent of the overall provision as we calculate it is to accommodate migration led development in North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Such a farcical situation could never come about in Germany , where a party must win a minimum five per cent of the overall vote before it can take a single seat in the Bundestag . |
| 4 | However , it may be misleading to lose sight of the overall pattern since the outcome of one relationship will affect responses to another . |
| 5 | Because of the strange happenings since she had arrived , Jenna had almost forgotten her original reason for this trip . |
| 6 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 7 | Samaraweera cites Leonard Woolf 's novel The Village in the Jungle to support his characterization of the average litigant as ignorant of court procedure , but Woolf 's novel was set in an impoverished , dying and atypical village in the dry zone . |
| 8 | In any event , say the Pakistanis , none of the Arab countries except for Egypt is prepared to take its awkward citizens back . |
| 9 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 10 | The Colonel then made his rounds of the southern parties while Bill Copland , landing from the destroyer , visited those to the north . |
| 11 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 12 | THERE is perhaps no more potent or dramatic symbol of the Industrial Revolution than the railways . |
| 13 | Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj . |
| 14 | The engineering drawing was an essential feature of the industrial revolution as it moved into the stage of large-scale works ; it is thus a characteristic element of the scientific age of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | I practised on about half of the remaining tables while the two other dining-room stewards , the real regular service attendants ; Oliver and Cathy , set the rest . |
| 16 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 17 | In more sophisticated tests two stimuli may be used , one probing the centre of the receptive field while the other explores the surrounding region to detect the presence of antagonistic effects from the surrounding region . |
| 18 | Constant discussion with my nine-year-old son on the merits of the gaelic version as opposed to rugby have been illuminating . |
| 19 | It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family . |
| 20 | Examine as much of the available evidence as is possible . |
| 21 | International intergovernmental organizations such as Unidroit and UNCITRAL and the specialist agencies could in theory select any of the available instruments but for practical reasons usually choose the route of a Convention ( with or without Uniform Rules ) or a Model Law . |
| 22 | The job of the statisticians employed by government to produce national accounts is to piece together the picture as best they can , using both methods , and as much of the available data as possible . |
| 23 | However , the generality of the technique poses problems ; often there may be no a priori reason for choosing one of the available generalisations as opposed to another . |
| 24 | But the practical necessities of treating patients remained , so the majority of physicians continued to use as many of the available remedies as they thought necessary , relying on their personal experience , the opinions of colleagues , and the reports of such trials as they had time to study . |
| 25 | Even if the court agreed with the earlier ruling it would have refused to allow five of the six appeals because they were brought outside legal time limits . |
| 26 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 27 | It was Law 's achievement to keep the extreme right within the mainstream of the political system when it might have felt the need to abandon party politics altogether . |
| 28 | ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) . |
| 29 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 30 | From his position as Chancellor , Law could exercise sufficient influence on the domestic management of the war to avoid further problems , and as Leader of the House of Commons and de facto deputy Prime Minister he could also deal with most of the political problems as they arose . |