Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [conj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 This , together with the disintegration of support for and the organisation of the Congress Party in North-central India indicate that it will be very difficult for any party to obtain parliamentary majorities in the near future .
2 The necessity for and the presence of the foreign company are constant reminders of the deficiencies of the domestic economy ; new methods are defined as more efficient ( if not necessarily more desirable ) than the traditional methods of production current in the host economy ; andwhere entirely new products enter , this only underlines the inadequacies of the host .
3 The deed of variation will have the effect as if the will of the deceased had the same terms as the deed of variation ( IHTA 1984 , s142 ) .
4 The surveyor will advise the client as to his opinion of the state of repair and condition of and the value of the property specified by the client on the standard form of house buyers ' report and valuation published on behalf of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . …
5 The Centre will act as a source of information concerning research into and the development of teaching of foreign languages for schools , colleges and universities throughout Scotland .
6 Climatology is similar to soil geography in that the incorporation of systems ideas were achieved by workers in disciplines other than physical geography but it is dissimilar in that there were few explicit statements of the systems approach .
7 Crucially , there was also assured financial support for the permitted grant-aided maximum of two such tutors at each extra-mural department in that the Board of Education grant provided for 75% of the salaries of tutors or a maximum of £300 per annum for each appointment .
8 Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime .
9 There should be more — even if , on inspection , the examples cited can again be seen as part of or an extension of the practice of good personnel management .
10 Job costs should obviously provide a stimulus for and the basis of billing .
11 Whereas most of the models today that we think of we regard them as a mixture of the two but with a he and , depending on the type of or the piece of perception that we 're working on , we have either one the other .
12 But it was confined to the specific issue of whether a duty of care existed — to establish liability , a plaintiff must also prove breach of duty , and loss caused by that breach .
13 Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed .
14 Though this case is always cited on the issue of whether the performance of a contractual obligation owed to a third party can be good consideration , the principal point at issue was whether the testator made an offer of contract at all .
15 Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist .
16 The same was true of James Joule 's experiment in which water was warmed quantitatively by stirring it in special apparatus : a definite quantity of mechanical force in the clockwork produced a definite quantity of heat-but the context of this was argument about the nature of heat , and Joule seemed to have proved that it was motion of particles rather than a substance .
17 The question of whether a duty of care exists is not in dispute .
18 This case raised the question of whether an assignee of a reversion on a lease could enforce the payment of rent against someone who had entered into surety covenants as a guarantee of the tenant 's obligations in the lease .
19 UK court cases have recently raised the question of whether the principle of " retrospective liability " for past pollution that met the standards of the day will be widely applied .
20 The question of whether the existence of a mistake has to be apparent from a speaking decision was raised in Dean v Prince [ 1953 ] Ch 590 , where , at first instance , the judge held that he could look at documents other than the auditors ' certificate and the balance sheet and that cross-examination of the auditors would be allowed .
21 Whatever relationship exists between government and groups , we must raise the question of whether the advancing of organized interests enhances democracy or , at least , provides the only realistic chance of obtaining some democracy in industrialized societies , as the pluralists have argued .
22 It is a question of whether the size of the room can take the increased proportions .
23 This raises the question of whether the interpretation of the Directive adopted in Katsikas confers any Community law right upon workers in the UK not to go with the business .
24 The question of whether the recognition of faces is a specific ability ( Yin , 1970 ; Tzvaras , Hécaen and Le Bras , 1971 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) or is part of a more general visuo-spatial processing system is unsettled ( Ellis , 1975 ; Hay and Young , 1983 ) .
25 This refers to the question of whether the group of people or the situation that we are studying are typical of others .
26 A greater awareness amongst public librarians of the need to conserve rare books is quite likely to bring into sharper focus the whole question of whether the retention of those books is necessary , desirable or economic .
27 Later they could have wedded sentences in constructions such as causal conditionals , being both a spur to and the reflection of our ancestors ' growing conceptual mastery of the world about them .
28 There was some ambiguity about whether the object of the policy was to precipitate a capitalist crisis and open the way for large-scale nationalization and socialist planning , or whether — as Hobson preferred to think — the result of such redistribution would be to increase demand and put capitalism back on its feet .
29 But within CND , a debate is also taking place about whether the focus of the organisation should broaden out , away from the traditional concern with nuclear hardware .
30 He , too , needs to be briefed on the need for and the purpose of the photographs — for it is important to ensure his willing cooperation .
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