Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , despite his backward views about the wrongs of women , he really did work very hard for his poor patients ! |
| 2 | The Commission 's point accords with the development of Stone 's own views about the perils of affective individualism and finds a prominent place in the opening theoretical section to the book . |
| 3 | He held the same views about the dangers of Serbian nationalism , and he tried to defend Pavlović from his accusers . |
| 4 | At the Sixth Plenum of the Twelfth Party Central Committee in September 1986 , the leading members of the Politbureau , such as Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang , put forward their views about the effects of continuing to ‘ open up ’ intellectual debate and introduce political reforms . |
| 5 | He said that some witnesses in the action had strong views about the rights of the public over the beach and quarrying which has been carried on there . |
| 6 | The Rushdie affair , touched off by Muslim reactions to the publication of Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses and reaching a crescendo in 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie 's assassination , revealed irreconcilable views about the duties of government in the face of blasphemy . |
| 7 | However , regardless of views about the benefits of legislation ( and this remains , as we shall see , a matter of some controversy ) , the evidence in the 1980s was that simply leaving action to employers had left older workers in an exposed and vulnerable situation . |
| 8 | They did , however , anticipate that boards would bring together people likely to have different views about the purposes of boards . |
| 9 | The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers . |
| 10 | They steer people away from any home which they believe is likely to be closed and once you start doing this , you will in fact be sealing the fate of those homes and you it 's a very , very dangerous game , you 've got ta be , you 've got ta play it very , very carefully indeed and I hope Chairman that there can be a degree of common sense and rationality introduced into discussions between the members of the various groups who have to deal with these very difficult issues . |
| 11 | The absence of any accepted divorce procedures , for instance , was probably one of the reasons for the rituals of ‘ wife sales ’ in the nineteenth century , continuing until at least the 1880s . |
| 12 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 13 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |
| 14 | Leigh concluded that the brooches he considered were the products of a single workshop although there may , yet , be other reasons for the degrees of similarity he observed ; it is these which are actually being assessed , not whether or not they originated from one workshop . |
| 15 | Rumours proliferated of disagreements between the leaders of the NKLP and SKLP and these were justified . |
| 16 | This and other more personal disagreements between the founders of the IWA led in 1951 to Rolt 's withdrawal from the association . |
| 17 | He would bring news of his dealings with Philip III when he arrived in England , and hoped that his English retinue would suffice for Edward 's needs until he knew his brother 's wishes about the nobles of Champagne . |
| 18 | Sometimes commanders in the field could be used as negotiators : in 1714 the treaty of Rastadt which ended the struggle between Louis XIV and the Emperor Charles VI was based on personal contacts between the commanders of the opposing armies , Marshal Villars on the French side and Prince Eugene on the imperial one . |
| 19 | The fact that we could only hypothesize via ‘ indicative ’ signs about the natures of things should not lead to discontent . |
| 20 | The major reason for limited liability was not the desire of business firms to expand but the need to find relatively safe investments for the funds of small savers . |
| 21 | Although there is no express statutory provision to this effect , contracts traded on other futures exchanges would also be treated as for investment purposes , and hence are investments for the purposes of the Act . |
| 22 | The predictable seasonal changes are anticipated by birds through the changes of day length . |
| 23 | His career epitomizes the interactions between the obligations of patron and client and the public service under the old administrative system . |
| 24 | In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones . |
| 25 | Unions do not negotiate with employers about the prices of the products they produce . |
| 26 | Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added ) |
| 27 | It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management . |
| 28 | To satisfy the court that these conditions have been met , it is necessary to obtain either oral testimony or , in the vast majority of cases , a signed statement from the person that occupies ‘ a responsible position in relation to the management of the activities for the purposes of which the computer was used ’ ( s.5(4) ) . |
| 29 | The two governments agreed to terminate all litigation before the municipal courts between the nationals of either country and the government of the other . |
| 30 | But while they are determined to make hay while the sun shines , farmers are still watching the monetary horizons for the clouds of revaluation and are ready to scamper for figurative shelter if the rains of realignment fall . |