Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only have to look around to assent to the truth of this bitter observation : contamination is the norm , corruption is the accepted social lubricant , deceit the everyday fuel , whether in the intimacy of personal relationships or in the public arena of the affairs of state . |
| 2 | Blackburn Rovers have lost the tag of runaway leaders and championship certainties . |
| 3 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 4 | The Charters agreed by the Allied Powers which set up the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo and the judgments of those Tribunals made it clear that everyone , from the lowest private soldier to the highest general and statesman is required to comply with the humanitarian spirit and the generally accepted principles of the laws of war . |
| 5 | Hobbs v. Clark was considered and followed in two further driver 's option cases , Director of Public Prosecutions v. Magill [ 1988 ] R.T.R. 337 and Regan v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 102 , but I find nothing in the judgments in these cases which provides independent support for what I have called the doctrine of driver 's preference . |
| 6 | The judgments in notorious cases which had decided that there could be unfettered administrative discretion were repudiated . |
| 7 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 8 | Richard Dawkins explores our understanding of evolution and asks who , or what , ultimately benefits from the activities of living things ? |
| 9 | At the same time , during the 1950s and 1960s , great advances were made in determining the molecular structures of RNA and DNA , and in recognizing their functions in controlling the activities of living cells , including the power to reproduce themselves and to become immune to infecting organisms . |
| 10 | The reluctance of the party to embrace unconditionally the activities of bourgeois intellectuals during this period was doubtless the result of the highly sectarian and consequently suspicious attitude with which the party viewed cultural activity at this time . |
| 11 | This is a forceful if limited restatement of the pluralist argument that a crucial condition ‘ for peripheral development is the appropriate political culture fostering the activities of capitalist elites . |
| 12 | Secondly , the issues discussed arise out of the regulation of the activities of financial conglomerates generally , and should in principle be equally applicable to problems arising from rules that relate specifically to the futures market . |
| 13 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 14 | The activities of these components depend on their symmetries just as the activities of internal vibrations of the molecules are related to their symmetries ( see Section 5.7 ) . |
| 15 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 16 | It is an essential part of the activities of political parties . ’ |
| 17 | Unless the Community has enacted legislation to apply the competition rules specifically to the activities of such undertakings , as it has recently done in the telecommunications sector , many public utilities such as water authorities , state postal services or state railways fall outside the competition rules . |
| 18 | This has proved difficult because of the intangible nature of the activities of many departments . |
| 19 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 20 | The activities of delinquent fans might be more intelligible if they can be related to particular roles and positions with respect to other fans . |
| 21 | In determining the amount of grant the Minister will have regard to the general standards of the courses maintained by them , the needs of the areas , the activities of other bodies providing further education in the area and the fees paid by students . |
| 22 | After the expiry of the Palestine mandate entrusted to Britain at the 1920 San Remo conference , the state of Israel , founded in May 1948 and since then cherished and sustained by jews all over the world , entered the state of war with its Arab neighbours which has persisted ever since , further stimulated by the activities of Palestinian militants and their sympathizers both in the occupied territories and farther afield . |
| 23 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 24 | As well as investigating the activities of individual authorities , it publishes papers which compare practice and offer suggestions for improvement . |
| 25 | The fact that more sites have been identified as time passes shows that archaeological distribution maps only depict the activities of individual archaeologists or field societies up to any particular date , rather than the total picture of deserted medieval villages ! |
| 26 | This publication , say its editors , will try to meet that need , through news and feature articles on the activities of individual Christians , local churches and Christian organisations in China . |
| 27 | However , they are a disparate group of nations , so further analysis of some of the main categories of LDCs is necessary as a background for later chapters in the book which deal with bank lending policies , external debt and the activities of international agencies . |
| 28 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 29 | I am not necessarily holding any brief for some of the activities of certain unions with members working in the North sea . |
| 30 | Field men accordingly keep a check on water quality in general and the activities of certain dischargers in particular by regular sampling and surveillance of watercourses and effluents . |