Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | making a provision for the managers of tomorrow ; and |
| 2 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 3 | It is helpful to compare a chart of the phonemes of your own language with a similar chart of the language you are learning . |
| 4 | Wherever the truth may lie , it is a body-blow to the hopes of political ‘ detente ’ between black and white . |
| 5 | One might quibble with these distinctions , but the proposal is simple : BSL is a language for conveying information and will be optimal where accurate and immediate knowledge is the goal ; methods imposed on this medium will be tailored to specific educational goals and these will be a function of the priorities of teachers , parents and society . |
| 6 | If you bear in mind the fact that the wealth of data available makes even tighter analysis and cross-analysis solely a function of the limits of the computer , you may begin to appreciate what is not only possible , but is happening right now . |
| 7 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 8 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 9 | The amount of radiation absorbed is a function of the concentrations of pigments and their arrangement in the chloroplasts . |
| 10 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 11 | It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory . |
| 12 | This therefore suggests a unity between the fundamentals of the existing structure of company law and the interests of society , as they have been provisionally defined . |
| 13 | Although there are also other Gaelic names for hemlock , the Biblical reference in Hosea X. 4 uses this name : ( Thus judgment springeth up like a hemlock in the furrows of the field ) . |
| 14 | I think some of the older managers and tenants have been bending his ear a bit about the problems of setting up catering . |
| 15 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 16 | I also found a modest typed item : ‘ Newton or Easter Newton , as it was sometimes designated , was a possession of a branch of the Roses of Kilravock , having been rebuilt in about 1650 … ’ |
| 17 | A report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists ( ICJ ) released on April 28 severely criticized the UK government for denying Hong Kong residents the right of self-determination in the form of a referendum over the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration [ for which see pp. 33656-57 ] . |
| 18 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 19 | Because it was hard for young refugees to find decently paid jobs ( all else being equal , refugee status was a disqualification in the eyes of most employers ) , they were frequently in debt . |
| 20 | A decision by the governments of France and West Germany to return their ambassadors to Iran in early June was welcomed by the Iranian press , with Kayhan saying that Iran would " give a positive response to this positive political move " . |
| 21 | ( Try identifying a decision from the minutes of a committee . |
| 22 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 23 | Mr Patten even mused that the Conservative Party might set up a think-tank on the lines of Germany 's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung , the research arm of the governing Christian Democrats . |
| 24 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 25 | The [ draft ] FRS requires that issue costs , as defined , are accounted for as a reduction in the proceeds of a capital instrument . |
| 26 | In July 1987 Mr Lawson unilaterally announced a reduction in the meetings of the tripartite NEDC from ten to four meetings annually and in January 1989 the Secretary of State for Employment announced that the TUC would no longer be the sole body which could nominate trade unionists to the Training Commission and other official bodies . |
| 27 | Other changes agreed were a reduction in the powers of the appointed ( and military-dominated ) Senate ; the appointment of the House of Representatives Speaker rather than the Senate Speaker as president of the National Assembly ; and an enhancement of the powers of the representatives . |
| 28 | Jenny Weinstein , CCETSW 's head of practice learning who led the working party , said some members wanted a reduction in the numbers of students entering DipSW courses . |
| 29 | Some of these workers were provided by growth in the labour force , the rundown of unemployment and a reduction in the numbers of people on family farms ( chapter 11 ) . |
| 30 | This agreement , which envisaged exchanges between the two armies and a reduction in the parameters of their military activities , followed the signing of an agreement on Nov. 28 , 1991 , between both countries ' Defence Ministries , also on military co-operation . |