Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong . |
| 11 | Organisms that released spores when they were too young or too old would end up with fewer descendants than rivals that built up their strength and then released a massive number of spores when in the prime of life . |
| 12 | ‘ Though the agreement be void by the Statute of Frauds as to the duration of the lease , it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respects , as to the rent , the time of year when the tenant is to quit , etc . |
| 13 | The danger of injury or death arises less from fights between rival groups of fans as from the panic that actual or threatened attacks provoke amongst the general public . |
| 14 | Another example in which modelling surpasses the limitations of physical testing is the space industry , which relies heavily on electromagnetic modelling of antennas because of the impracticality of making adjustments once equipment is operational . |
| 15 | However , Israel has consistently refused a return of refugees except within the framework of an overall settlement with neighbouring Arab states . |
| 16 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 17 | This was found to be a general feature of elastomers because of the presence in most polymers of water soluble impurities . |
| 18 | Once they are pressed , the majority of flowers belong to the middle range of tones because of the colour changes that frequently take place during pressing . |
| 19 | ( The effect of different kinds of mutes as in the case of the trumpet might , however , be profitably studied with a view to new and subtle tone-colours . |
| 20 | Rejecting suggestions that police were less vigorous in their pursuit of loyalists than in the fight against the IRA , Sir Hugh said such a charge was ‘ neither accurate nor fair ’ . |
| 21 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 22 | Firstly , with the accountant 's control model there tends to be time lags in the reporting of variances because of the nature of accounting systems , and secondly people , rather than the mechanical system , will have to be motivated to respond to variances , identify the cause of variance and take corrective action . |
| 23 | The Court emphasised the importance of that element of the English practice that entrusts the execution of an order to the plaintiff 's solicitors and requires them to give a series of undertakings as to the manner of execution and the use made of the information or documents obtained . |
| 24 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 25 | But the mapping of this fictional-real opposition onto the worldly-divine dichotomy raises a number of questions as to the status and role of fictional constructs , given that we have access here and now to this world alone . |
| 26 | Any spreadsheet can include more than one page and you can use commands and formula between and across pages — for example you can write a sum that adds the contents of the same cell in a number of pages as in the example shown here where the fourth page of the spreadsheet summarises three month 's sales collected on the three previous pages . |
| 27 | Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’ |
| 28 | But fears remain for the future of dozens of businesses because of the dispute over leasing arrangements with Inntrepreneur , the estates arm of Grand Metropolitan . |
| 29 | The issue between the Roman and the Celtic clergy , however , turned at this time as much if not more on the question of the validity of orders as on the date of Easter or the shape of the tonsure . |
| 30 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |