Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broader the array of surviving sources the more likely future historians will be in a position to see the late twentieth century as the rich and diverse world that it really was . |
| 2 | Just when their creditors were on the point of issuing writs the Tecks left England for the continent , insolvent and heavily in debt . |
| 3 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 4 | Quiss had demolished a significant part of the castle when he first discovered this , unwilling to believe that the stones , every one of them , all the tens of thousands of cubic metres the castle must be composed of , all those kilotonnes of rock really were saturated , filled full of hidden , indecipherable lettering . |
| 5 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 6 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
| 7 | In the absence of non-gravitational forces the second law describes a body in free fall and we show in Section 6.5 that such a path is a geodesic in space–time . |
| 8 | If , for example , the local authority is unable to find a suitable placement for the child because of a shortage of foster parents the court may decide that a care order is not to the child 's benefit despite the shortcomings of his own parents . |
| 9 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 10 | In relation to the affairs of private citizens the courts are the primary organs for interpreting , applying , and enforcing the law . |
| 11 | In interviews of eight subjects the mean proportion of utterance time taken up by pauses varied across the subjects from 4 to 54 per cent . |
| 12 | Rather than focusing on wage inflation , there are a number of short-term measures the government could adopt to encourage investment in training and equipment , without altering its fundamental anti-inflation policy . |
| 13 | ( The later the stage of intact embryos the longer they require in the sodium citrate solution. ) ( ii ) Transfer embryos or cells to acetone-cleaned slides , fix by dropping a single drop of ethanol : acetic acid ( 3:1 v/v ) onto them and air dry . |
| 14 | But what we can say is that we can select out from the group of solid tumours the ones that do badly . |
| 15 | In a multitude of subtle ways the farm worker may be reminded of his inferiority . |
| 16 | Designed to allow ventilation at the apex of lean-to roofs the new Abutment Ventilation System utilises the major components of Marley 's Ventilated Dry Ridge System with the addition of a lead support strip . |
| 17 | As E. R. Dodds has remarked , ‘ where men can build their systems only out of used pieces the notion of progress can have no meaning — the future is devalued in advance ’ . |
| 18 | The Department of Health must accept that without a substantial increase in the consultant body and rationalisation of acute services the new deal will undoubtedly fail . |
| 19 | Under a dome with the modest diameter of 120 metres the complex was to contain various meeting halls with seating for from two to twelve thousand people . |
| 20 | Although is is undoubtedly the case that the left hemisphere has primary responsibility for language in the vast majority of right handers the proportion of left handers for which this is true is not entirely clear . |
| 21 | The greater the liquidity of its liabilities , and the more volatile the demands of depositors are for cash , the greater the proportion of liquid assets the institution must hold . |
| 22 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 23 | If standard EB Corporation ocular replacements are used instead of cloned organs the estimate is only nineteen thousand adjusted ergs . ’ |
| 24 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 25 | It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended . |
| 26 | In ordinary cases the notice must be a six months ’ notice , ending with a completed year , but in the case of agricultural tenancies the Agricultural Holdings Act 1923 requires a full year 's notice . |
| 27 | For anthropological studies of primitive societies the field worker of the past often had no written sources of information to call upon at all . |
| 28 | In a bilateral system comprising a network of reciprocal relationships the entity against which claims are made is evident . |
| 29 | Such grants had some advantages from the crown 's point of view , for in the event of the failure of direct heirs the lands and title would revert to the crown and would augment the resources of royal patronage , as happened with the Audley , Clinton and Ufford inheritances ; but the underlying reason for limiting descent to heirs male was the wish of the nobility to preserve the integrity of their inheritances and to ensure that the title descended with the land . |
| 30 | In sixty percent of spontaneous abortions the foetuses are normal and thirty percent in the first trimester show gross chromosomal abnormalities . |