Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 2 | He indicated that multiparty elections would be held in six months at the earliest , and appointed a commission of experts to draft a constitution , as well as an election law and an election timetable . |
| 3 | On Sept. 28 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged the USSR government to declare East Kazakhstan an ecological disaster zone ( local authorities had already done so ) , and called for an international team of experts to investigate the consequences of the contamination . |
| 4 | So there 's there 's lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if it 's one you use on here it helps you remember you do n't have to have that written down because it 's there already produced if it 's a pre-prepared acetate as we call as we call it . |
| 5 | The business interests of the group were consolidated in 1924 under the name of The Wellcome Foundation Limited and the Company aims of today still correspond very closely to those of its founders , namely the discovery , development , manufacture and sale of products to promote the health and hygiene of man and animals . |
| 6 | An important feature of the 1980s which has contributed to InterCity 's financial turnround is market segmentation and pricing — or the shaping of products to meet the needs of customer groupings . |
| 7 | But having said that , over the whole of the tropics , there 's something like a thousand million hectares of forest , of which one million is actually managed as sustained yield as defined by this book , which is erm managing the forest , and actually carrying out sort of operations to improve the regeneration afterwards . |
| 8 | UTOPIA has ideas for the improvement of twentieth-century life while NUMEROSO is suspicious of attempts to set the future into a mould , however good it may seem . |
| 9 | A firm pound and a slight easing of money market rates encouraged a couple of attempts to push the FT-SE 100 index up towards 2420 . |
| 10 | The year also saw a fair number of attempts to stimulate the UK market — introductory offers of 50% discount ( OUP ) , money-off vouchers ( LTP ) and extra discount ( CUP ) . |
| 11 | As evidence of the difficulty of eschewing individualism he criticises a number of attempts to elaborate a conception of the state as the tool of the ruling class which are individualist . |
| 12 | For him , trade unions were an example of attempts to create a substitute for Gemeinschaft ; one appropriate for the new era of capitalist industrialisation . |
| 13 | In addition , Parliament embarked upon a series of attempts to eradicate the practice of the monarch having ‘ placemen ’ in Parliament by disqualifying for membership of Parliament all who held an office of profit under the Crown . |
| 14 | Bad weather dashed hopes of attempts to halt the flow during what was seen as a natural lull in the lava 's momentum . |
| 15 | The Thatcher government 's strong stance on many issues won much popular support amongst a people weary of attempts to defy the law by left-wing local authorities , strike pickets , or disaffected journalists . |
| 16 | By the mid-1960s MITI recognized the importance of the industry by increasing loans and subsidies and embarking on a series of attempts to rationalize the industry and/or organize cooperative ventures . |
| 17 | After the failure of attempts to salvage the talks — the first between the two countries since May and originally scheduled for July — they were abandoned on Nov. 6 . |
| 18 | This has led to a series of attempts to reinscribe a place for , and a relation with , the other as other , outside the sphere of mastery and therefore , logically speaking , both infinite and beyond the scope of knowledge . |
| 19 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 20 | There has been , however , a range of attempts to emphasize the place of commodities in exemplifying some general condition of dominance , which goes beyond the more particular implications of ideology . |
| 21 | Finally we discuss press reporting of attempts to change the situation , firstly , in Chapter 6 , by research and official reports , and then in Chapter 7 , by changing the law as it pertains to the legal processing of sex criminals . |
| 22 | Each stage in this series of attempts to consolidate the validity of the observation statement , ‘ Here is a piece of chalk ’ , involves an appeal not only to further observation statements but also to more theoretical generalizations . |
| 23 | Studies of attempts to co-ordinate the efforts of various professions concerned to protect children from injury by their parents have suggested that particular professional practices , activities and terminology may intensify communication problems . |
| 24 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 25 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 26 | ‘ We get all sorts of requests to match the husband 's kilt . |
| 27 | The recording of fades to mark the beginning and end of a sequence is another of those chores which is easier to carry out during post-production editing than during live shooting . |
| 28 | A problem-solving approach was employed which included the use of contracts to enable the couple to reciprocate efforts at improving their relationship . |
| 29 | The vendor of our current house also put us under some pressure to keep on her cleaner but , this time , we waited until the exchange of contracts to reject the idea . |
| 30 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |