Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion .
2 For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history .
3 And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’
4 As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’
5 This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power .
6 Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue .
7 For the guts of Papert 's approach is to make geometry and other once-dusty disciplines concrete .
8 It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey .
9 This imbalance has led to Eureka Audiovisual establishing the following priorities for its work ; the exchange and broadcasting of European works ; training , to encourage competition among European companies ; to assist countries with small production bases and minority languages ; to promote new technologies ; to create more networking opportunities for the industries of cinema and television .
10 It contributed to D'Arcy 's increasingly bad mood as he scoured the city in his search for the directors of Spidex International Trading .
11 The first is what Hallam[00] has termed the ‘ Revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans .
12 The first is what Hallam has termed the ‘ revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans .
13 In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy .
14 In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy .
15 Particularly for the concepts of accountability outlined in Divisions I and II of table 2.1 , an important way to communicate accountability is through the provision of financial , and related , information — financial accountability .
16 If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August .
17 ‘ But unless they get the crowds who turn out for the visits of Linfield and Portadown , every week , cash will always be in short supply . ’
18 Some Ealing posters collaged graphics with photography , as Minton did in the publicity leaflet for The Loves of Joanna Godden ( 1947 ) .
19 Although providing support for the findings of Mattila et al , our results show a weaker association between dental disease and coronary heart disease .
20 Slipstreaming away , waiting for the bits of gristle from the sandwiches .
21 It was empty now , except for the bits of string and wood that the nomes had used .
22 Similar perambulations were made in August and September 1641 for the Forests of Windsor , Wychwood , Shotover , and Stowood , Rockingham , Brigstock and King 's Cliffe .
23 Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past .
24 This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights .
25 The ideal is that the system adopted should guarantee ( 1 ) a unified internal European market for the products of biotechnology , ( 2 ) a consistent regulatory approach in all EEC countries , and ( 3 ) a common level of human and environmental protection .
26 The most reliable and valid yardstick of creativeness , of course , is retrospective , the capacity for the products of originality to survive the fleeting whims of taste , fashion , or claims as to their truth or value .
27 Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort .
28 Unless the proceeds of industry were more equally distributed — putting cash in the hands of working-class people who would spend it not save it — the market for the products of industry would tend to dry up , leading to recurrent crises of over-production or , as he preferred to describe it , under-consumption .
29 The extent to which the desire for the products of industry , beyond necessities , results from the processes of want-creation as distinct from pre-existing materialistic tendencies is obscure , but there is some plausibility in Galbraith 's picture of a corporate system whose power includes an ability not only to stimulate demand for particular goods but also to shape prevailing social values .
30 For the themes of savage and city it is Demant and Dawson who are important , though neither writer is gripping .
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