Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lack of attention is surprising given the widespread use of graphs revealed in the study , sponsored by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , of the corporate annual reports of 240 large UK companies that we have recently completed . |
| 2 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 3 | Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable . |
| 4 | No doubt Henry VIII 's desire for military glory in Europe played a part ; the payment of rewards recorded in the Household Books cease with his accession . |
| 5 | He increased significantly the number of Russians travelling to the West and the number of skilled foreigners settling in Russia . |
| 6 | The treaty would be submitted to a meeting of states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in Paris in November 1990 . |
| 7 | Liberalisation of ownership is seldom a matter of states retreating to a policy of indifference . |
| 8 | It preserves a relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements ( musical structures and song lyrics , for example ) but also insists that those combinatory patterns that are actually constructed do mediate deep , objective patterns in the socio-economic formation , and that the mediation takes place in struggle : the classes fight to articulate together constituents of the cultural repertoire in particular ways so that they are organized in terms of principles or sets of values determined by the position and interests of the class in the prevailing mode of production . |
| 9 | The internalisation of values based on a commonality of experience and reinforced by collective committee decision making is certainly , in principle , capable of producing formidable business success . |
| 10 | Unprovoked by media hysteria , the last two years have seen the issue of values emerge in the staffroom . |
| 11 | The reason for this equality of values arises from the fact that a financial claim is at one and the same time an asset to one economic unit and a liability to another . |
| 12 | Hence the diagram represents a determiner followed by any number of adjectives followed by a noun . |
| 13 | An example is the sequence of acts performed by a mallard drake during courtship . |
| 14 | A ‘ FLYING squad ’ of experts takes to the road this month and early May to help East Anglian farmers tackle probably their most important office job for years . |
| 15 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 16 | The RHA 's review was carried out by a small team of experts led by a psychiatrist and including a senior nurse and a senior social services representative . |
| 17 | A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation , as in London . |
| 18 | The schemes were considered by a team of experts working under a group of senior officials appointed by the two governments and , in addition , the British government appointed Land Use Consultants to investigate their environmental implications . |
| 19 | Much of this land was uninhabited , and for a variety of reasons ranging from the incidence of tsetse fly to the competing claims of different clans , farmers were reluctant to move into it . |
| 20 | Examples of reasons given by the Secretary of State for not allowing a property to be exempted include : |
| 21 | It is true that , for a variety of reasons to do with the structure of wage bargaining in Britain , Keynes did not consider it very likely that money wages would fall , even in the presence of substantial unemployment . |
| 22 | Many kinds of reasons prevail in the drama lesson for participants ‘ holding back ’ . |
| 23 | Stock control means keeping the correct balance between the range of products stocked by the retailer , and the sales which arise from carrying that stock . |
| 24 | The systematic blurring of the lines between information , entertainment , and promotion of products lies at the heart of this practice . |
| 25 | Indeed , postmodern culture is envisaged as entailing and celebrating ‘ the death of the author ’ ; the abandonment of products surrounded with the aura of creation and uniqueness and attributable to charismatic producers . |
| 26 | The company names might be the same — but the list of products used in the manufacturer of the rackets that they produce , becomes ever more complex . |
| 27 | Obtain the total cost of products used in the package from trial data based on consumption and price . |
| 28 | Other African countries were vocally hostile to allowing any legal trade , which , they said , would merely provoke an upsurge in poaching since it would effectively be impossible to check the origin of products offered for the market . |
| 29 | The range of products offered by an organization is called the product mix . |
| 30 | Examples in the last category would include personal prejudices held by key people against the salesperson , his company , or its products , while positive factors might include common interests which could form the basis of a rapport with the buyer , or favourable experiences with other types of products sold by the salesperson 's company . |