Example sentences of "of the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Policy statements which emanate from government departments are often , in practice , the product of prior consultation and negotiation between the centre and one or more of the many associations — not least the professional bodies , which on occasions serve to ‘ unite ’ civil servants and local authority employees . |
| 32 | The more accomplished players gain additional encouragement from their membership of , and loyalty to , one of the many music centres which have sprung up in every part of the country . |
| 33 | Rostov the Great , Moscow , one of the many sites to be seen from Anna Karenina |
| 34 | From this examination of some of the many patterns of family life which exist in Britain in the 1980s it can be seen that traditional views of the family are unsupported by research findings . |
| 35 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 36 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 37 | One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April . |
| 38 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 39 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 40 | One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students . |
| 41 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 42 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 43 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
| 44 | ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school . |
| 45 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
| 46 | One of the many things my parents taught me was how to entertain properly . |
| 47 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 48 | The first of the many descendants of The Promised Land . |
| 49 | One of the many reports that would be written . |
| 50 | You know , that 's one of the many differences since Gill and I have been together : I start seeing things I never would have noticed before . |
| 51 | At a joint news conference yesterday with Tokyo 's governor , Shunichi Suzuki , he turned quickly to some of the many differences between the sister cities , and omitted a line from a prepared statement that had said ‘ Tokyo and New York are more alike than any two cities on the face of the earth . ’ |
| 52 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 53 | Salaries of the many scientists , support staff and engineers and the overheads all inflate , using up increasing amounts of the money even before any experiments begin , so real research dollars in 1989 were probably less than one half of what they were five years earlier . |
| 54 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 55 | First , a particular instance : one of the many cases of ‘ hypercorrection ’ that were noticed . |
| 56 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 57 | Of the many changes proposed in this review ( which is still under discussion by the Council of Ministers ) , several are designed to alter policies and aids in the LFAs . |
| 58 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 59 | Some of the many changes include replacing existing lighting with low watt bulbs , using solar energy , introduction of low-flow shower heads , use of salt water in lavatories in some areas , replacement of disposable crockery with china and glassware and paper napkins with linen , promotion of draft rather than bottled beer , a purchasing policy favouring recyclable packaging . |
| 60 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |