Example sentences of "of [noun pl] the " 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 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 4 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 5 | However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 10 | I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case . |
| 11 | Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list . |
| 12 | Flocks of owls The population explosion led to new social habits . |
| 13 | The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building . |
| 14 | He has given one apostle Gaudi 's face , and his robot-like Roman soldiers are copies of chimney-pots the architect designed . |
| 15 | Given that these defendants are unlikely to know the names of solicitors the responsibility for acting quickly settles on the duty solicitor . |
| 16 | Nature of operations The Bank lends on a commercial basis ( although loans usually have a grace period of five years before repayments ) since the intention is to supplement private finance , not compete with it . |
| 17 | Nature of operations The Bank operates on a non-profit-making basis , and so its interest charges are close to the average rates it has to pay in the EC and international capital markets . |
| 18 | However confident the mass of the population may have felt in the durability of Britain 's world role , those who ruled in Britain knew full well the kind of dangers the country faced and the need to take steps to meet them … |
| 19 | Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word . |
| 20 | In the Chamber of Deputies the PRSC lost its overall majority , with the PLD winning 44 seats , the PRSC 42 , the PRD 32 and the Independent Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Independiente — PRI ) two seats . |
| 21 | On Oct. 23 in the Chamber of Deputies the government won another confidence vote on sections of the 1993 budget freezing public-sector pay and establishing new taxes . |
| 22 | Mr Collin added : ‘ Obviously , if people have a number of creditors the poll tax could be a casualty . |
| 23 | All these , if examined carefully , show in their arrangements of streets or patterns of roads the impact imposed on them by their ‘ planning lords ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , in the case of mergers the proposed changes are largely procedural , and no significant reorientation of present policy is envisaged . |
| 26 | After the presentation of trophies the Scottish Amicable teams and supporters retired to a local hostelry for a victory and re-union celebration . |
| 27 | There is no limit to the range of improvements the project will be involved with . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After several months of discussions the leaders of 32 trade unions agreed in mid-July to join forces and sanctioned the creation of the National Trade Union Centre ( NATUC ) . |
| 30 | Should Clinton win , that official announcement would herald the biggest clearout of personnel the White House has seen . |