Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 2 | Baker said that the United States would not recognize Slovenia or Croatia as international subjects , but spoke in favourable terms of the idea of Yugoslavia becoming a loose alliance of states as in the Izetbegovic-Gligorov compromise proposal [ see above ] , and warned , at the end of his visit , of the tragic consequences of Yugoslav instability . |
| 3 | The third form of patronage is again distinct , in that it is concerned less with the direct retaining and commissioning of artists than with the provision of some kind of social protection or recognition . |
| 4 | Detailed recommendations included : that every school should have a policy for ‘ language across the curriculum ’ and a suitably qualified teacher to support it , and that LEAs should appoint special advisers to support the schools ; that there should be screening procedures to identify language difficulties at an early stage , and specialist assistance available at both school and LEA level for those in need ; that language in education should form part of initial training for every teacher ; that in-service education in reading and language should be expanded ; and that a system of monitoring be set up , using new instruments to assess a wider range of attainments than in the past and establishing new criteria for literacy . |
| 5 | This cuts down processing and response time of calls where in a Distributed Relational Database Architecture environment , client requests have to be translated at the server , which increases system overhead and makes database access less flexible . |
| 6 | Here is a purely personal set of preferences as to the parameters that should be included in the new editorial guidelines . |
| 7 | There is the matching and retrieval capabilities of information retrieval systems , the document segmentation and word indexing of free text products , the display of mark-up languages , the layouts and layers to be found in the Office Document Architecture , the use of metadata for data exchange , and the application of a body of rules as in the field of AI and expert systems . |
| 8 | The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life . |
| 9 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 10 | This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act . ’ |
| 11 | This may consist either of views as to the proper policy-making procedures — the way things are to be done — or of particular sets of policies that are perceived to be in the best interests of the nation . |
| 12 | Indeed , Spurgeon and Barwell ( 1990 ) have raised a number of queries as to the appropriateness of utilising management processes relevant to one situation in a totally different context . |
| 13 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 14 | However , the significance of all this is unclear : in the southeastern part of the province there appears to be a greater inter-relationship of designs than in the west . |
| 15 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 16 | In the lower part of the great still life , sketchily blocked in , we see the same configuration of legs as in the studies on paper . |
| 17 | I want to stick to making sculptures of animals because of a love of them . |
| 18 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 19 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 20 | Hitherto many specialists opted out of the controversy by saying we have no way of knowing the internal temperature of dinosaurs because of the reasons mentioned above . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong . |
| 22 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 23 | Organisms that released spores when they were too young or too old would end up with fewer descendants than rivals that built up their strength and then released a massive number of spores when in the prime of life . |
| 24 | ‘ Though the agreement be void by the Statute of Frauds as to the duration of the lease , it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respects , as to the rent , the time of year when the tenant is to quit , etc . |
| 25 | The danger of injury or death arises less from fights between rival groups of fans as from the panic that actual or threatened attacks provoke amongst the general public . |
| 26 | Another example in which modelling surpasses the limitations of physical testing is the space industry , which relies heavily on electromagnetic modelling of antennas because of the impracticality of making adjustments once equipment is operational . |
| 27 | However , Israel has consistently refused a return of refugees except within the framework of an overall settlement with neighbouring Arab states . |
| 28 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 29 | This was found to be a general feature of elastomers because of the presence in most polymers of water soluble impurities . |
| 30 | Once they are pressed , the majority of flowers belong to the middle range of tones because of the colour changes that frequently take place during pressing . |