Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pre-eminent virtue attached to jade contributed in a variety of ways to the smooth working of the kind of hierarchical society reflected in the works of Confucius ( 551–479 B.C. ) . |
| 2 | Mercosur Foreign Ministers attended a two-day meeting with their European Community ( EC ) counterparts in Guimaraes , Portugal , in early May , during which they complained about EC protectionism and agricultural subsidies ; the EC repeated its offer of technical help to assist in the regional integration of the Mercosur countries [ see p. 38910 for May meeting of the Group of Rio and the EC ] . |
| 3 | A lack of technical competence shouted from the report , asserted Cook . |
| 4 | Attention will be paid to the choices made by firms concerning which products to develop , in which market segments to compete , with which customers to collaborate and which sources of technical know-how to utilise in the search for competitive advantage . |
| 5 | In 1939 MI6 received the famous Oslo Report , a package of technical information delivered to the British Legation in Oslo , containing a wealth of priceless data about secret weapon developments in Germany including rocket design at a then unheard of location called Peenemünde . |
| 6 | It has been claimed that the role of parental supervision continued into the early mills . |
| 7 | Grants to the colleges of advanced technology made at the time of their transition to university status brought the college library stocks up to a similar level . |
| 8 | There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University . |
| 9 | However , perhaps the strongest support for the concept of professional accountability derives from the argument that this has the best chance of promoting positive change in the practices of individuals and institutions . |
| 10 | Clauses 1 , 4 , 10 and 11 of the UKCC Code of Professional Conduct refer to the individual practitioner 's accountability in this area . |
| 11 | In 1979 , for example , of the 80,000 full-time teachers employed in further education only just over 36,000 , or about 45 per cent , were trained in that they had successfully completed a course of professional training approved by the DES . |
| 12 | Again for all four marker enzymes studied , lysosomes incubated with ethanol or acetaldehyde showed no difference in the proportion of lysosomal enzyme released into the supernatant when compared with control values . |
| 13 | Lysosomal stability was then assessed by determination of : ( a ) Latency — that is , the per cent increase in lysosomal enzyme activity after addition of Triton X-100 and ( b ) Supernatant activity — that is , the proportion of lysosomal enzyme remaining in the supernatant after resedimentation of lysosomes . |
| 14 | The most obvious manifestation of volcanic activity comes from the infrequent but spectacular eruption of volcanoes on land . |
| 15 | First , there is the case of currency union , the type of monetary union preferred by the EC , which involves member countries adopting a single currency . |
| 16 | The initial impact of monetary policy depends upon the behaviour of individuals and institutions in financial markets , including the foreign exchange market . |
| 17 | They also know that fluctuations in bond prices ( the obverse of changes in interest rates ) are frequently the result of monetary policy conducted by the Bank of England . |
| 18 | It follows , therefore , that the constraint imposed on the conduct of national monetary policies by the irrevocable fixity of intra-union exchange rates implies that there is no real difference between a currency union and an exchange rate union in terms of the degree of monetary autonomy enjoyed by the union member countries . |
| 19 | A touch of regional pride appeared in the expectation that the New Jerusalem , of which the Apocalypse of John had spoken , would descend to earth on a hill in their own Phrygia . |
| 20 | If successful , the region 's bid for Objective One status within the EC would open the door to a multi-million pound package of regional development grants over the next six years . |
| 21 | This has reinforced the problems of regional imbalance inherited from the years of deep recession and the more distant past and looks to be heading to a showdown on the green fields of southern England . |
| 22 | Evaluating the effects of regional policy bristles with the same difficulties as the evaluation of any other large-scale government policy . |
| 23 | There is a considerable degree of regional specialization coupled with the growth of big plants and big cities . |
| 24 | In summary , then , as fig. 8.1 shows , many of the issues raised by this review of geographic information handling in the four potential application fields are essentially complementary to those discussed in the part on methodological developments . |
| 25 | The land bucked and heaved like a terrified horse and a storm of baleful magic raced over the land . |
| 26 | As the pace of economic exploitation quickened in the nineteenth century the forests were depleted , the ravages of the woodmen being supplemented by the destructive habits of the goats kept by the peasants . |
| 27 | This means that doi moi , the policy of economic renovation launched at the previous congress , can not be reversed . |
| 28 | Its influence can also be seen at work within the North where sub-regional studies have shown that many medium-sized places and more rural areas fared relatively well between 1971 and 1981 despite the general appearance of economic malaise conveyed by the regional-level statistics ( Breheny , Hall and Hart , 1987 ; Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ; Townsend , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Public ownership was perceived as a means whereby the state elites could direct the Francoist strategy of economic autarchy launched in the 1940s , which in turn owed much to concerns with national security . |
| 30 | From the late 1950s , the pressures of economic development led to the ‘ controlled liberalisation ’ ( Fina and Hawkesworth 1984 ) of the system . |