Example sentences of "of [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 2 | It 's certainly , the appraisal interview is a good opportunity to , to address the issue of because communication is difficult |
| 3 | This raises the question of whether exposure to higher oestradiol levels may contribute to more rapid development of disease in younger women . |
| 4 | Predictably the study is a small-scale one with no indication of whether recall is serial or not . |
| 5 | Leaving aside for now the question of whether independence is appropriate as the ultimate goal for us all , it is important to recognise the inherent difficulty and contradiction in trying to achieve or work towards independence through a teacher/pupil relationship which remains essentially a dependent one . |
| 6 | ( Which brings to mind notions of whether Sun will ever offer a cross-licence to Unix System Labs for some reason or another . ) |
| 7 | The question of whether inflation would result from demand management was not seriously tackled . |
| 8 | The issue of whether publication in one place meant that the information lost its quality of confidence everywhere at that time arose in Exchange Telegraph Co Ltd v Central News Ltd [ 1897 ] 2 Ch 48 . |
| 9 | The interesting question of whether publication by or caused by the confidant affects the existence of the confidence was discussed in Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 . |
| 10 | Draft SAS 470 sets out existing guidance in the new format including consideration of whether disclosure in financial statements is fair and the aggregate effect of uncorrected misstatements , while draft SAS 520 extends the scope of guidance in assessing other people 's work to include experts employed by the auditors . |
| 11 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 12 | We shall return to the question of whether GNP is in fact a good indicator of well-being later , and consider a newer approach which examines the extent to which the basic human needs of citizens are being met . |
| 13 | The state of the art in the study of professionals in schools is still represented by the work of Hoyle ( 1975 ) who suggested the notion of professionality as a way forward from the sterile debates of whether teaching is a profession in the ‘ checklist of characteristics ’ manner . |
| 14 | The question of whether service jobs are real jobs or whether only manufacturing jobs create wealth and so are the only real jobs was again posed and it was agreed that it was wrong to define wealth-producing as only having got to do with manufacturing and producing profit . |
| 15 | At the bottom of the argument about running state schools like a chain of McDonalds hamburger restaurants , handing out Big Mac gift vouchers to disadvantaged kids , is the issue of whether education is ultimately just a utilitarian service to the marketplace that can be understood in simple commercial language , or something more important and fundamental that warrants different treatment . |
| 16 | Both these cases , while they are addressed to the distinct issues of whether history is accidental or planned , and whether it is accidental or law-governed , exemplify a widespread failure to engage with the problem of holism . |
| 17 | Then one can address the question of whether rape should be confined to cases where submission arises from a threat or fear of violence , or whether it should be phrased more widely . |
| 18 | The demand for the domestic currency in foreign exchange markets derives from exports of goods and services plus capital inflows , irrespective of whether payment is made in domestic or foreign currency . |
| 19 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 20 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 21 | Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case ! |
| 22 | With Labour promising to revive the bill if they are elected , opposition to bloodsports being Liberal Democrat policy and the likelihood of a hung Parliament , it is no longer a question of whether hunting will be banned but when . |
| 23 | For Quine there are data and there is theory , and whatever desirable internal characteristics the theory may have , its justification is achieved , if at all , in the way our verificationalist semantics taught us that it should be ; that is , by appeal to the difference that the truth of the theory should make to possible experience and by direct ( strong ) verification of whether experience does in fact go the way the theory says it should . |
| 24 | Furthermore the amount of white land identified in the Local Plan is a measure of whether land performs a greenbelt function , and not simply a long-term strategic land reserve . |
| 25 | For example , over the period rail transport lost heavily to road transport ( though assessment is complicated by problems of whether road transport paid the full costs of its operation ) and more recently coal has lost to alternative forms of energy supply . |
| 26 | But answering the question of whether abuse has taken place takes time and the involvement of many people other than doctors . |
| 27 | and , since licensed premises are in use during the hours of darkness , the question of whether emergency lighting should be provided . |
| 28 | Although the overall size of households may not have altered dramatically , this still leaves open the question of whether household composition has changed . |
| 29 | In addition the questions of whether computer technology leads to a division between technician and professional level engineers , and a greater integration of design with other organisational activities , is explored . |
| 30 | Answer guide : The issues brought out here are the question of whether cost or value is to be included and whether the fact that the asset was acquired prior to opening the shop is relevant . |