Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a 75 per cent majority of creditors present in person or by proxy at a meeting of creditors agree to the proposals , then they become binding on all creditors and the insolvency practitioner who assisted the debtor or another such practitioner nominated by the creditors supervises the implementation of the proposals . |
| 2 | 95% of complaints are actually dealt with outside the courts ; 5% of cases get into the courts . |
| 3 | But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced . |
| 4 | The critique of functionalism led writers to stress the ‘ relative autonomy ’ of the capitalist state , manifested in its existence as a set of institutions separate from the classes of civil society . |
| 5 | A further set of influences relate to the materials themselves . |
| 6 | This has two implications : any disclosures of uncertainties belong in the accounts , not in the audit report ; and there needs to be an accounting standard defining what disclosures are required before there can be an auditing standard . |
| 7 | More than 35 per cent of pilots die between the ages of 55 and 59 compared with an average 18 per cent , said the British Airline Pilots ' Association . |
| 8 | All manner of possibilities exist as the examples in Figure 5.5 show . |
| 9 | Altogether none of these changes really recognise that the majority of families depend on the earnings of both husband and wife , even if the wife 's contribution in most instances is smaller . |
| 10 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |
| 11 | As we saw back in section 12.5 , the building-up of reserves counts as a deficit ( an outflow from the balance of payments account to the reserves account ) . |
| 12 | Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender . |
| 13 | Sixty-six per cent of pensioners live on the margins of poverty , which increases with age ( Walker , 1986 , p. 185 ) . |
| 14 | The central feature of police work between the wars was the beat , the cornerstone of police practice , the crucible of the constable 's experience . |
| 15 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 16 | Urumqi ( Urumchi ) , the capital of Xinjiang province , saw thousands of students take to the streets in large demonstrations at the end of the year . |
| 17 | The great art among them was to make a pair of horses plough with no reins at all , to finish the rig , turn the horses and commence another rig — still with no reins . |
| 18 | In , the numbers of postcrania approximate to the numbers of cranial elements in most of the predator bone assemblages . |
| 19 | Even now that the company has gone public , some 40 per cent of shares remain in the hands of staff or former staff . |
| 20 | Building this pipeline means working in temperatures ranging from -5O°C in winter to +45°C in the Siberian summer , when thick swarms of mosquitoes add to the problems . |