Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lack of attention is surprising given the widespread use of graphs revealed in the study , sponsored by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , of the corporate annual reports of 240 large UK companies that we have recently completed . |
| 2 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 3 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 4 | The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series . |
| 5 | But the effectiveness of rewards varies with the desired behaviour . |
| 6 | No doubt Henry VIII 's desire for military glory in Europe played a part ; the payment of rewards recorded in the Household Books cease with his accession . |
| 7 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 8 | He increased significantly the number of Russians travelling to the West and the number of skilled foreigners settling in Russia . |
| 9 | The numerical growth of states participating in the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s reinforced the Soviet perception that the global ‘ correlation of forces ‘ was shifting away from the West and that Western-sponsored multilateral military alliances and alignments in the Third World were fragmenting or weakening . |
| 10 | The treaty would be submitted to a meeting of states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in Paris in November 1990 . |
| 11 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 12 | It preserves a relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements ( musical structures and song lyrics , for example ) but also insists that those combinatory patterns that are actually constructed do mediate deep , objective patterns in the socio-economic formation , and that the mediation takes place in struggle : the classes fight to articulate together constituents of the cultural repertoire in particular ways so that they are organized in terms of principles or sets of values determined by the position and interests of the class in the prevailing mode of production . |
| 13 | Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism . |
| 14 | Unprovoked by media hysteria , the last two years have seen the issue of values emerge in the staffroom . |
| 15 | The reason for this equality of values arises from the fact that a financial claim is at one and the same time an asset to one economic unit and a liability to another . |
| 16 | A ‘ FLYING squad ’ of experts takes to the road this month and early May to help East Anglian farmers tackle probably their most important office job for years . |
| 17 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 18 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 20 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 21 | A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation , as in London . |
| 22 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 23 | Much of this land was uninhabited , and for a variety of reasons ranging from the incidence of tsetse fly to the competing claims of different clans , farmers were reluctant to move into it . |
| 24 | Examples of reasons given by the Secretary of State for not allowing a property to be exempted include : |
| 25 | For a number of reasons to do with the local labour market and domestic economies , staff clung to a twelve-hour shift system . |
| 26 | It is true that , for a variety of reasons to do with the structure of wage bargaining in Britain , Keynes did not consider it very likely that money wages would fall , even in the presence of substantial unemployment . |
| 27 | Many kinds of reasons prevail in the drama lesson for participants ‘ holding back ’ . |
| 28 | Promotions of products advertised by the media or on TV |
| 29 | Stock control means keeping the correct balance between the range of products stocked by the retailer , and the sales which arise from carrying that stock . |
| 30 | The group of products falling into the three diagonal squares are between these two extremes on one or both axes . |