Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The people in the pew , not to mention the clergy and the musicians themselves , have to be convinced of the priority of worship , and the indispensability of first-rate music within it . |
2 | This is commendably democratic and can work perfectly well , but sometimes the intimacy of one-to-one conversation yields more interesting results for both parties . |
3 | The canzoni by Giovanni Gabrieli in this collection are early and relatively unimportant works ; already in the Symphoniae Sacrae of 1597 he had published canzoni in which the form was revolutionized by transference from the intimacy of private performance and enjoyment to music for ecclesiastical or state occasions . |
4 | It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other . |
5 | In yet other cases , such as the early-nineteenth-century German Brotherhood of St Luke , the emphasis was on the breakaway from academic training towards a workshop kind of organization , more centred on training and development than on exhibition . |
6 | Immediately , Alnasr Alwasheek was burdened with the tag of new favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
7 | However , nor surprisingly , critics have drawn comparisons between the Frenchman and Sir Norman Foster and have attempted to attach to Nouvel the tag of High Tech architect . |
8 | The highest LPF ( recognition score ) of the words having the tag in that position . |
9 | Kashi was directly in point , but the judgments in that case were treated as statements of the then settled practice and not as declaring any restriction upon the powers of the court . |
10 | If the judgments in that case are looked at , it will be found that Willes J. said , in explaining the grounds of his judgment that under circumstances like those of the present case , the debt is gone , because it would be a fraud upon the stranger who pays part of a debt in discharge of the whole , that an action should be brought for the debt . |
11 | RUSSELL L.J. , having cited the judgments in Amalgamated Investment and Property Co . |
12 | For example , there might be more politics in the branches of the Young Conservatives , with the activities of committed freemarket ideologists in greater evidence . |
13 | I will concentrate on the problem of anaphor resolution , showing how preferential phenomena complicate the task of co-ordinating the activities of various resolution subprocesses , and suggesting solutions to four specific co-ordination problems . |
14 | Increases in money wages are seen to result from the activities of strong trade unions who make use of their monopoly power in the control of the supply of labour to push for wage increases in excess of those required to compensate workers for rising prices and rising productivity . |
15 | However , where the activities of one group restrict the freedoms , practices and conduct of another , such as events in Amritsar we shall clamp down — Sheikh/Sikh and ye shall be fined . |
16 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
17 | The various organs of the body do not function in isolation , but are mutually dependent on the activities of each other … |
18 | The process will still remain an essentially entrepreneurial one , but instead of working with a group of ‘ pure ’ entrepreneurs , we could simply recognize an entrepreneurial aspect to the activities of each market participant . |
19 | the activities of each constituent member ‘ should properly be regarded ’ as those of the business described in the direction , carried on concurrently or previously ( or both ) ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1A(1) and ( 2 ) as inserted by FA 1986 , s 10(1) ) . |
20 | It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions . |
21 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
22 | In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments . |
23 | The book is by Mr John Day , who left MI5 in 1982 after 24 years in K Branch , responsible for countering the activities of Communist-bloc intelligence agents in Britain . |
24 | The government continued to be plagued by the activities of armed rebel groups in the north and east of the country . |
25 | General evidence of the activities of that society would be quite sufficient for the time being . ’ |
26 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
27 | The President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin ( who had resigned from the CPSU in July 1990 — see p. 37617 ) , issued a decree on July 20 banning the activities of all party political organizations from enterprises and government bodies , both republican and union , within the Russian Federation , with effect from Aug. 4 . |
28 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
29 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
30 | Edited by Patricia Scanlon , it aims to catalogue the activities of British Surrealism and place the movement within its wider European context . |