Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monarch thus became formally dependent on Parliament for consent to the raising of taxes and for the passage of legislation . |
| 2 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 3 | The example here is for a self-employed professional who charges for time spent on a number of projects and at a variety of rates . |
| 4 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 5 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 6 | Under an agreement reached on March 2 , 1990 , between the CPD and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Democrática Independiente — UDI ) , representatives of pro-Aylwin parties would occupy the posts of president of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate . |
| 7 | Society seeks to rectify the effects of this divergence of private and social interests by imposing limits or prohibitions on certain kinds of emissions or on the use of polluting processes ; other techniques , such as taxing the production of harmful wastes , are also available to force companies to ‘ internalise ’ the full costs of its activities . |
| 8 | The third form of patronage is again distinct , in that it is concerned less with the direct retaining and commissioning of artists than with the provision of some kind of social protection or recognition . |
| 9 | Detailed recommendations included : that every school should have a policy for ‘ language across the curriculum ’ and a suitably qualified teacher to support it , and that LEAs should appoint special advisers to support the schools ; that there should be screening procedures to identify language difficulties at an early stage , and specialist assistance available at both school and LEA level for those in need ; that language in education should form part of initial training for every teacher ; that in-service education in reading and language should be expanded ; and that a system of monitoring be set up , using new instruments to assess a wider range of attainments than in the past and establishing new criteria for literacy . |
| 10 | It is measured in the repossession of houses and in the lack of new house starts . |
| 11 | There is the matching and retrieval capabilities of information retrieval systems , the document segmentation and word indexing of free text products , the display of mark-up languages , the layouts and layers to be found in the Office Document Architecture , the use of metadata for data exchange , and the application of a body of rules as in the field of AI and expert systems . |
| 12 | The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life . |
| 13 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 14 | This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act . ’ |
| 15 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 16 | The quality of resolution depends not only on this absolute number of pixels but on the number of colours and intensities which can be utilised at each pixel . |
| 17 | Some Moslem students who had been visiting the Mosque were set upon as they left by a much larger gang of Copts and in the fracas at least one of the students appeared to have been killed . |
| 18 | Indeed , Spurgeon and Barwell ( 1990 ) have raised a number of queries as to the appropriateness of utilising management processes relevant to one situation in a totally different context . |
| 19 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 20 | The youngster 's inclusion in the side earned him the name ‘ Boy Bastin' , as seventeen-year-olds in League football were much scarcer than now , and Bastin was in a class of his own with the fierceness of his shot , as a teaser of defences and as an expert penalty-taker . |
| 21 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
| 22 | If the terms are too one-sided , they may provoke customer resistance , leading to a battle of forms or to the loss of potential custom and a bad trading reputation . |
| 23 | However , the significance of all this is unclear : in the southeastern part of the province there appears to be a greater inter-relationship of designs than in the west . |
| 24 | Mud and other solid matter taken from the beds of watercourses or from the ground over which a discharge has been made in the past may also be collected for analysis . |
| 25 | Time and again I have met folk who have been warmed by the Spirit to perceive the beauty of Christ in the life of a group of believers or in the story of the New Testament , and have come to faith that way . |
| 26 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 27 | Denktash had been rebuked by Boutros-Ghali on Nov. 6 for being " in total opposition to all UN resolutions , to the society of nations and to the Security Council " , refusing to accept the return of refugees , insisting on two separate states and separate sovereignty , rejecting the proposed map and refusing to hand over Varosh , the Greek suburb of Famagusta , to UN administration . |
| 28 | Harland is in discussions with a number of parties and in the case of Vickerys , which makes equipment for the paper and water industries , a potential purchaser has signed a letter of intent . |
| 29 | Another element of Pareto 's attack on classical democratic theory is in his contention that the governing elites , whether characterised by the residue of combinations or by the residue of persistence of aggregates , are motivated not by morality or reason but by these common basic sentiments which are in themselves morally unspecific and illogical . |
| 30 | Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’ |