Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
2 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
3 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
4 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
5 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
6 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
7 | With the development of the capitalist mode of production there is an intensification of two principal contradictions within capitalism ; that between the forces of production and the social relations of production , and that between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
8 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
9 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
10 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
11 | While you will not want to overstate the coercive nature of a witness summons or subpoena you must be clear about the consequences of non-attendance . |
12 | Mr Leigh-Pemberton , however , sounded a stark warning to the Cabinet not to take risks with inflation : ‘ We have to be very clear about the objectives of policy . |
13 | The Daimler is entirely adequate for the needs of Mirror Group Newspapers ' current chairman , Ernie Burrington , says Ted . |
14 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
15 | Most discussion of agency has focused on the attributability of the actions of one State to another for the purposes of liability . |
16 | If the owner snatches the shoes back , he will have stolen them for they belong to another for the purposes of theft . |
17 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
18 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
19 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
20 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
21 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
22 | The general regulation of economic and social life at the national level , and relations with other nation states , require a complex apparatus of government and administration , parties with broadly formulated aims and policies , and competition between parties ; but there is also a need for more direct and immediate means of political action , which would allow the effective expression of particular grievances and interests , counter some of the consequences of centralization and bureaucratic administration and make possible a more continuous practical participation by large numbers of citizens in determining the quality of their lives . |
23 | Erm what I 've mentioned then on the handout is some stuff about um er the business of traumagenic dynamics and the possibility that some of the consequences of child sex abuse cold be thought of as as er post-traumatic stress disorder . |
24 | While the basic nineteenth-century response to poverty was to try to strengthen older institutions , some of the consequences of urbanization and industrialization posed problems for which entirely new responses were necessary . |
25 | Some of the consequences of vision screening will be in the area of correction or remediation as well as in identifying problems with sight and influencing educational placements . |
26 | Though some of the effects of competition , particularly on the BBC , were beneficial , others were not . |
27 | It 's the part that can be told in an article which is tracing some of the effects of heterosexism . |
28 | The insulin like growth factors are thought to mediate some of the effects of growth hormone on tissues . |
29 | Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) : |
30 | Some of the effects of caerulein infusion have been reproduced in this study by exogenous platelet activating factor and the results indicate that platelet activating factor administered in a single dose by itself can induce pancreatitis with typical enlargement of the pancreas and inflammatory changes in the tissue as well as in the increase in plasma amylase concentration . |