Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 3 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 4 | The capital gain or loss calculated for corporation tax purposes on the disposal of property , plant , equipment or other assets is usually measured as the difference between the sale price and the base cost of the asset plus a deduction for indexation ( an allowance given for the effects of inflation during the period of ownership of the asset ) . |
| 5 | Developed for the purposes of palaeontology concerned with sudden and massive extinctions of life forms , a review of the implications for parts of physical geography has been provided by Dury ( 1980a ) . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) Where the arrangements for the admission of pupils to a school maintained by a local education authority provide for applications for admission to be made to , or to a person acting on behalf of , the governors of the school , a parent who makes such an application shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above as having expressed a preference for that school in accordance with arrangements made under subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) In this section ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ includes any procedure undertaken for the purposes of diagnosis , and this section applies to any procedure ( including , in particular , the administration of an anaesthetic ) which is ancillary to any treatment as it applies to that treatment . |
| 8 | The question is how do ‘ cultural revolutionary ’ cadres work within a framework of democracy , a word which is not emphasized for the purposes of irony but to indicate what still remains the central principle on which cultural revolution must be conducted . |
| 9 | The course is recognized for the purposes of exemption by the main professional accounting bodies . |
| 10 | The waiting area had been full and in all twenty eight staff and outpatients had to be treated for the effects of gas . |
| 11 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 12 | His wife Rita was treated for the effects of smoke . |
| 13 | The pair from council flats in Morpeth Avenue , Easterside , had to be treated for the effects of smoke inhalation at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 14 | Dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Vinelott said that the overriding purpose of para 24(5) , Sch 5 , FA 1975 was to ensure that the participators in a close company , which was entitled to an interest in possession , were to be treated for the purposes of capital transfer tax as if they had been entitled to interests in possession according to their rights and interests in the company . |
| 15 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 16 | The Serbs were not consulted about the terms of Article VIII of the Treaty , which stated : |
| 17 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
| 18 | Transrectal ultrasound and MRI should therefore be regarded as the techniques of choice for staging prostatic cancer , but as yet there is no firm agreement as to which of these techniques is the most accurate . |
| 19 | The real danger lies in dividing the protagonists into ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ and insisting that battle be joined between the forces of light ( liberals like Mr Torode ) and the forces of darkness ( fundamentalists like Shabir Akhtar ) . |
| 20 | But the issue also epitomized the emerging dilemma for Laura , caught between the dictates of commerce and social responsibility . |
| 21 | The judge , asked to decide as a preliminary point when the cause of action accrued for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 held that it arose on completion of the works required by the notices . |
| 22 | The above text is fabricated for the purposes of illustration . |
| 23 | Sponsored by sports companies and worshipped by women , these modern ali'i are torn between the claims of tradition and media-exploitation , divided in their approaches and personalities . |
| 24 | He went to his old billet and the old lady living there , after welcoming him warmly , said ‘ You 've come for the instruments of course ’ . |
| 25 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 26 | International disputes should be resolved through the methods of conference and arbitration . |
| 27 | Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where 2 or more persons use or threaten the unlawful violence , it is the conduct of them taken together that must be considered for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) . ’ |
| 29 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 30 | There are no congregations of tropical seabirds to match the huge concentrations in high latitudes ; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century whaling and sealing were predominantly polar and subpolar activities , pursued despite the hazards of cold , stormy environments , and commercial deep-sea fisheries still thrive on the polar fringes . |