Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] . |
| 2 | Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( Solidarity ) Chairman Leszek Balcerowicz ( Solidarity ) Deputy Chairman ; Finance Jan Stanislaw Janowski ( SD ) Deputy Chairman ; Minister-Head of the Office for Advancement and Applications of Science and Technology Jacek Ambroziak ( Solidarity ) Minister-Head of the Office of the Council of Ministers **Krzysztof Kozlowski ( Solidarity ) Internal Affairs Aleksander Bentkowski ( PSL ) Justice Izabella Cywinska ( Solidarity ) Culture and Arts *Janusz Bylinski ( Rural Solidarity ) Agriculture and Food Industry Bronislaw Kaminski ( PSL ) Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Andrzej Kosiniak-Kamysz ( PSL ) Health and Social Welfare Jacek Kuron ( Solidarity ) Labour and Social Policy Aleksander Mackiewicz ( SD ) Domestic Market Aleksander Paszynski ( Solidarity ) Housing and Construction Henryk Samsonowicz ( Solidarity ) National Education **Vice-Adml . |
| 3 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 4 | Commenting on the findings of the survey , John Harper , head of the Institute of Directors ' Centre for Director Development , said : |
| 5 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 6 | After all , is n't that a rejection of the complexity of women 's oppression ? |
| 7 | Fourthly , the growing awareness of the complexity of children 's problems , coupled with an ecological perspective that views them as part of an extended family and local community with its own history and culture , mean that no single person or agency will be able to provide all the necessary services . |
| 8 | These issues came to a head with the appointment of the Committee on Ministers ' Powers in 1929 . |
| 9 | [ F ] ew reports have assembled so much wisdom whilst proving so completely useless , as the Report of the Committee on Ministers ' Powers … |
| 10 | He will also meet representatives of the Committee for Churches ' Participation in Development . |
| 11 | The research seeks to identify both the understanding of the nature of history which PGCE students bring to the institutions , and the extent to which institutions consider the structure of the subject and link it with a theory of the development of pupils ' thinking in history and the styles of teaching best suited to further such development . |
| 12 | In her chapter of the development of children 's ability to write , Miranda Jones describes a longitudinal study she conducted in Edinburgh , which followed children 's understanding of writing from the preschool stage , through to how their understanding changed as they learned to write in school . |
| 13 | Studies of the development of children 's writing and spelling suggest that whilst certain broad principles of development can be discerned , children follow a wide variety of individual developmental paths within these principles ( Bissex 1980 , Read 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 15 | For criminal law practitioners , good practice standards were published in January in the Magistrates ' Court Guide , a praised new publication which gives practical advice on every aspect of the preparation of magistrates ' court cases . |
| 16 | Much of the work of consumers ' organisations is responsive . |
| 17 | However , it can surely do no harm to apply these methods to code switching data , as long as the analyst is aware of the boundary between participants ' own interpretations — as warranted by " displays " within the talk — and the analysts ' intuitive interpretations . |
| 18 | Erm the Communist Party needed the approval of the majority of peasants erm before land reform could take place and there was there 's this sort of chicken and egg problem in that how that do you have land reform in order to mobilize peasant support or is it the peasant support that 's going to enable land reform t to take place successfully . |
| 19 | He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship . |
| 20 | His sometimes enigmatic expression and behaviour were likened to that of the sphinx in cartoonists ' caricatures . |
| 21 | Bishop John Oliver is a leading member of the campaign for women 's ordination . |
| 22 | The idea of individuality is inseparable from the assumption of the existence of individuals qua per se ontological items . |
| 23 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 24 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 25 | Part of the culture of miners ' militancy draws on the religious motifs that moulded working-class ideology — the more you suffer the more you deserve . |
| 26 | The office bearers of the Federation of Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association in India for 1992/93 are : president — A Machwe ( Wiley Eastern ) ; vice-presidents — Mazharul Ishlam ( Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association of Bengal ) ; B R Chawla ( Heritage Publishers ) ; R Seshadri ( The Booksellers & Publishers Association of South India ) ; Chandra Pal Gupta ( Bombay Booksellers & Publishers Association ) ; secretary — S C Sethi ( Jaico Publishing House ) ; treasurer — Inderjeet Singh ( Panima Educational Book Agency ) . |
| 27 | Giving voice to the demands , and warning about the constraints on teachers buying books , Pat Clark , a teacher and member of the Federation of Children 's Book Groups , reminded booksellers and publishers alike that ‘ books are only one of the resources needed by teachers ’ . |
| 28 | Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures . |
| 29 | It calculated that the difference between a good school and a bad one accounts for about 20% of the variation in children 's progress ( between the ages of seven and 11 ) in reading , writing and mathematics . |
| 30 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |