Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizens choose between different teams of politicians and whichever one wins enacts the programme on which it campaigned . |
| 2 | That same eighth chapter of Acts records the spread of the gospel by informal missionaries , men and women evicted from Jerusalem by the persecution which followed Stephen 's death . |
| 3 | The combination of commercial patronage , large-scale corporate architectural firms and those local authorities which hold materialistic values produces the kind of architecture described in Mr Glancey 's article . |
| 4 | Control over the effectiveness of government activities involves the fulfilment of political goals by effective administration . |
| 5 | The successful execution of the DEPARTMENT 's activities involves the use of staff skills and the best available equipment to provide the greatest benefit for the DEPARTMENT 's customers . |
| 6 | Another of its larger contracts involves the movement of car parts to and from the motor industry in Coventry . |
| 7 | In all humanities disciplines the use of computers seems to have passed through three stages , each corresponding roughly to a decade . |
| 8 | The development of classroom strategies involves the production of a curriculum unit tailored in the first instance to the needs of the specific schools in the study , which deals with issues of sex-stereotyping and women 's work , and aims to expand girls ' occupational horizons . |
| 9 | For what reasons has the price of fish from South West England risen sharply ? |
| 10 | Using these forms has the advantage of enabling the selection personnel to compare the applicants ' responses and qualifications quickly and easily . |
| 11 | Setting up such products needs the co-operation of foreign telephone-network operators . |
| 12 | In none of the cases has the relationship between the debtor and the third party been such that , in law , undue influence is to be presumed until rebutted . |
| 13 | The section on the analysis of anti-infectives and their metabolites covers the analysis of a wide range of anti-infectives — from β-lactam drugs to antivirals such as AZT — by using both chromatographic and immunoassay techniques . |
| 14 | Many countries have found that the application of certain anti-inflation policies has the effect of curbing the rate of economic growth and raising the level of unemployment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Public relations enhances and protects reputations by ensuring the activities of the company are communicated to and understood by wider publics , so that each group 's good opinions reinforces the other in an unbroken circle of APPROVAL . |
| 17 | This is because trading futures has the advantages of a highly liquid market , low transactions costs , easily available short positions , low margins and rapid execution . |
| 18 | Thousands of newspaper and periodical articles are indexed in Research Index ; Index to the Financial Times covers the FT from 1981 on . |
| 19 | The creation of the Women 's Action Groups illustrates the nature of the communities involved in the strike , and the strong sense of belonging to a place , and of commitment to its future , which Scargill and the NUM were able to realize . |
| 20 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 21 | Clearly , however , the infinite number of variables prohibits the formulation of any ‘ rule of thumb ’ ; complexity and ambiguity remain the order of the day , hence the inappropriateness of generalizations . |
| 22 | The first of these influences represents the influence of aggregate demand since the key term , m t , is an economy-wide average : its influence is not specific to one particular market — it affects all markets and hence is not indexed on . |
| 23 | Again , the giving of thanks represents the manipulation of the consequences of a desirable piece of behaviour . |
| 24 | Honour Moderations involves the study of five subjects , four of which are compulsory and one of which is selected from a list of options . |
| 25 | An elaborate system of nozzles and fan-draught cowls minimises the risks of lead-poisoning . |
| 26 | must in its pure form express unconditional allegiance to orthodoxy and autocracy ; everything which passes beyond these bounds represents the admixture of alien concepts , the play of fantasy , or a mask behind which the ill-intentioned try to ensnare inexperience and entice dreamers . |
| 27 | In our example the size of the books represents the sales of the textbook . |
| 28 | The majority of the other complexes involves the presence of nuclear proteins with DNA binding specificity and dimerization properties identical to C/EBP ( 22 ) . |
| 29 | Firstly , although referral patterns will reflect individual practice , continued use of dilatation and curettage by gynaecologists reinforces the notion for general practitioners and patients that it is appropriate treatment for menstrual irregularity in women under 40 . |
| 30 | The grant of a right , but not the exclusive right , to park cars has the advantage of flexibility . |