Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This percolation of values is governed by the unification .
2 A real deformation of values is suggested by the common use of such terms as ‘ productive scholars ' ’ and ‘ ‘ scholarly output' ’ . '
3 The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul .
4 This uneasy coexistence of agendas is highlighted by the position of women within AIDS culture .
5 The collective voice of solicitors is expressed through the Law Society , which combines the functions of a governing body and a professional association for practitioners in England and Wales .
6 The methods themselves also divide into two broad categories : ( a ) direct methods , in which the solution requires is reached in a finite , predictable number of operations ; ( b ) indirect methods , in which the solution is usually obtained by successive approximation procedures , when the number of operations is determined by the rate of convergence .
7 The nature of operations is illustrated by the closure of Howard Doris with 650 job losses and by the experience of Charlton Leslie offshore which , in June 1987 , had only 11 employees , down from a previous total of 700 , but on receipt of a new order expanded to some 300 in partnership with McNulty Offshore .
8 The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example .
9 A full list of titles is given in the appendix while Table 3.8 consolidates some of the information .
10 The second category of religions is associated with the East .
11 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
12 This order of magnitude of improvements is reflected in the interim results from the first ten projects .
13 Woman-centred therapy , for instance , tends , like orthodox psychotherapy , to use a regulated , male-identified structure of fixed-length sessions in which the exploration and resolution of conflicts is controlled in the last instance by the therapist .
14 The issue of notes is done through the Issue Department , which organizes their printing .
15 A small but expanding open set of adverbs is marked by the suffix -wise , as in clockwise .
16 The acquisition of skills is governed by the current needs of particular societies and by the adaptation of individuals within the societies in which they happen to find themselves .
17 The Companies Act 1985 provides that the consent of shareholders is required for the sale of 10% or more of a company 's net tangible assets , or of assets valued at £100,000 or more , to a director of the company or of its holding company .
18 When one of Armel 's string of mistresses is riding in the car with him , she notices the effect of the flaw in the glass and tries to appropriate this phenomenon of double retro-vision for herself :
19 The study of some group of tendencies is isolated by the assumption other things being equal : the existence of other tendencies is not denied , but their disturbing effect is neglected for a time .
20 A poet 's imagery throughout the descriptions of storm and weather is strengthened by a visual exactness and a sense almost of an external agency inimical to man : it is no accident that at many points the movement of waves is compared to the malice of active devils .
21 Meantime , the important principle which emerges is that the network measure is concerned with an underlying variable of integration to a social group ; hence , selection of indicators is motivated by the need to characterize in a principled way differences between individuals with respect to degree of integration .
22 When the safety of walkers is threatened by the use of pesticides on crops , The Ramblers ' Association challenges the government to bring in better safety regulations .
23 The total PV of outlays is subtracted from the total PV of proceeds giving the net PV of the investment .
24 The total PV of outlays is subtracted from the total PV of proceeds giving the net PV of the investment .
25 An even wider and perhaps more profound range of images is suggested by the mudyi tree .
26 If the cost of books is reimbursed by the Department then they must be returned to Sylvia Middlemiss on completion of your course , otherwise the cost will be recovered by the Department .
27 Normally the sale of books is confined to the sale of fiction and factual books not directly related to any course of study .
28 First , in Britain the primary basis of relationships is centred on the workplace itself where unions and managements function largely autonomously with no substantive , external , regulative framework .
29 The response results I have outlined indicate that this variation can extend even to the decision of whether a particular passage or set of words is assigned to the SF genre or not .
30 Lastly we looked at the way in which the form of words is affected by the sender 's knowledge and idea of the receiver 's knowledge .
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