Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lay the interlining on top with the raw edges of interlining level with the marked hemline and top edge of the curtains ( fig. 31 ) . |
| 2 | This actual address will be identical with the key as transformed by the algorithm for home records , but will be different for synonyms , as the ancillary file used will allow all the records to be reached in a single seek , as if the file were self-indexed . |
| 3 | Where do we learn how to behave in the intimacy of marriage ? |
| 4 | Nowhere is this amnesia more likely to apply than within the intimacy of marriage . |
| 5 | They are particularly unable to cope with the intimacy of marriage and , if bewildered by their spouse 's demands , may flare into violence . |
| 6 | Thirdly , and this is the most challenging categorisation , partnerships differ in terms of the intimacy of education business relationships which are developed . |
| 7 | It was a close partnership , made all the closer by the small numbers involved and the intimacy of Derry . |
| 8 | The " we-group solidarity which we associate with the intimacy of kinship , in the sense just described , tends to ramify outwards through the whole social system . |
| 9 | For them the din increased rather than destroyed the intimacy of conversation . |
| 10 | The intimacy of television meant that this strange animal that liked to subtitle itself ‘ intimate revue ’ had to be breathing its last . |
| 11 | But there is a sense in much of the images that , notwithstanding the smallness of the final print the intimacy of impact which she wishes to share has escaped the frame of the viewfinder . |
| 12 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 13 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 14 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 15 | Though he dismisses the tag of dreamer , the scale of his plans are on a different planet . |
| 16 | On the fateful night he ascended the stairs , passed through the barrier and greeted the porter on duty and then he walked down onto the track . |
| 17 | All the same , Cadfael had a word with the porter before evening . |
| 18 | By dint of careful and meticulous research she was able to provide the defence with evidence that every significant statement published in the Sunday Telegraph had been published somewhere already in a newspaper , a magazine or a book . |
| 19 | The defence to power systems group is to become an equal shareholder with construction companies Trafalgar House and BICC in Eurorail . |
| 20 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 21 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |
| 22 | The two International Congresses of Writers for the Defence of Culture , the first held in Paris in July 1935 , the second held in Valencia , Madrid , Barcelona and Paris in July 1937 at the height of the Spanish Civil War , were simply the prolongation of collaborative cultural politics initiated at the Amsterdam Congress of 1932 . |
| 23 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 24 | Finally , in July 1937 , at the height of the Spanish Civil War , Nizan attended the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture held in the beleaguered and bombarded city of Madrid . |
| 25 | The issue became a naked choice between the destruction or the defence of culture , and the intellectual/writer was called upon to defend culture against the barbaric and destructive philistinism of fascism . |
| 26 | War , argued Aquinas , was the defence of peace which , in practice , might involve the forcible protection of rights , lands , or honours under threat or attack . |
| 27 | It became the defence of peace and culture from the warmongering philistinism of fascism . |
| 28 | The defence of disclaimer is available to someone charged under section 1(1) ( b ) . |
| 29 | This dealer commits an offence under section 1(1) ( a ) and the defence of disclaimer is no defence whatsoever to someone charged under section 1(1) ( a ) , R. v. Southwood ( 1987 C.A. ) . |
| 30 | The defence of pluralism , however , was aligned to professional scholarship rather than a clearly formulated politics of education . |