Example sentences of "of [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power . |
| 2 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 3 | Unlike Weber , therefore , who argues that in advanced industrialised societies representative democracy is for a variety of reasons the best available method by which to recruit political leaders , Schumpeter has little interest in recommending political participation for any reason . |
| 4 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 5 | Couple 's joy : Alison Kitchen , 28 , and her husband David , 31 , who live in Hartlepool , are celebrating the birth of triplets the first test tube babies to be born at the town 's general hospital . |
| 6 | However , in the case of mergers the proposed changes are largely procedural , and no significant reorientation of present policy is envisaged . |
| 7 | After the presentation of trophies the Scottish Amicable teams and supporters retired to a local hostelry for a victory and re-union celebration . |
| 8 | The idea of the charter , launched on Monday at the Rockwell nature conservation area off Martindale Road , Darlington , was to inform people of the type of improvements the local authority would work towards . |
| 9 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 10 | So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have . |
| 11 | Very often these mispronunciations were corrected when the subject repeated the speech , and in about 50 per cent of cases the correct pronunciation was restored with no disruption of the fluency of shadowing . |
| 12 | In a number of cases the jurisdictional facts will be expressed in terms of a subjective open textured discretion : the if X element will be ‘ if the Minister thinks fit , necessary , etc. , he may do … . ’ |
| 13 | In the majority of cases the homoeopathic remedy appeared to work effectively and it was rare for the patient to require the conventional therapy . |
| 14 | In a proportion of cases the first site of infection is the cervix , when there may not be any local pain . |
| 15 | In perhaps 50 per cent of cases the final diagnosis depends on confirmatory results from the pathology laboratory and these take from two to seven days to come back to the clinic . |
| 16 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 17 | In the vast majority of cases the occupational classification used in the census and at death registration is the same , but the term unoccupied might be interpreted differently . |
| 18 | In the vast majority of cases the 6th potency will work just as well as the 30th and does not require such accuracy . |
| 19 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 20 | There was a drastic thaw , and in a matter of hours the unmetalled road turned to liquid mud . |
| 21 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 22 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 23 | Here n i is the number of times the ith symmetry species appears in Γ y , h is the order of the point group ( equal to the total number of symmetry operations , and given at the head of the character table ) , g r is the number of equivalent symmetry operations of type R , and Xi ( R ) is the character listed for operation R for this symmetry species in the character table . |
| 24 | Despite the Council of Guardians the different lords are levying troops and fortifying castles , preparing for war if peace fails . |
| 25 | After a series of meetings the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) had finally agreed on Aug. 28 on a " framework document " for a solution to the conflict [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 26 | When practising or training , therefore , the greater the number of repetitions the better . |
| 27 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 28 | If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) . |
| 29 | In the field of tactics the main interest of the eighteenth century lies in the slow modification of the traditional line formation of troops on the field of battle by the new or rediscovered idea of attack in column . |
| 30 | However , it is not necessarily the case that the shorter the period during which the plaintiff is likely to be deprived of amenities the lower the award of damages under this head . |