Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 2 | The hydrogen atom loses its electron , becomes positively charged and is attracted to the negatively charged electrode , called the cathode ; the oxygen gains an electron and migrates to the positive electrode , the anode , this migration of ions forming the current . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Setting up such a Common Fund proved even more difficult and it was not until 1986 that the required number of states ratified the agreement . |
| 5 | The most radical of these , Initiative 533 in Washington , extended to legislators at both federal and state level , but the legality of states limiting the terms of their federal representatives had been widely questioned . |
| 6 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
| 7 | He called for concerted action by governors head teachers and teachers to erm make sure that er young people appreciate the importance of having a set of values recognize the values held by others from whom they can learn . |
| 8 | Many commensals or parasites of ant colonies have specialised glands that produce a variety of secretions appeasing the ants and preventing attack ; these secretions may be identical or nearly identical to recognition pheromones produced by the ants . |
| 9 | Over the cream pebble-dash and olive grey windows of the great house , some turrets may yet be seen beneath what I take to be the original small roof-slates ; and a plaque high on the wall — ; ‘ 1635 RE ’ with what looks like ‘ ID ’ ; and a couple of lions guarding the door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He advised the committee on imperial defence , was sent out to Petrograd as deputy to Viscount Milner [ q.v. ] at the Allied conference in 1917 , and in 1929 he went to Versailles for the committee of experts reviewing the Dawes plan for German reparations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even granting the limitations of the rules in question , the giving of reasons implies the willingness to engage in a structured conversation . |
| 15 | In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I invite you up here and all you think is whether the dyke is full of nitrates poisoning the villagers . ’ |
| 19 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 20 | In the early 1980s , Dale Spender edited a collection of essays assessing the impact of feminism on the academic disciplines . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , in Aquitaine , the hoards show a very low level of mixing of coins from various mints , suggesting only local circulation around a single centre , and there is virtually no sign of coins entering the region from the north or north-east . |
| 22 | From this it can be concluded that only 1.4 per cent of this large number of coins establishes the date of the deposit but in this case , since there are no later Roman coins found in Britain , it could be even later ; a salutary lesson for all excavators . |
| 23 | Starting with halogen attack on simple hydrocarbons , Gilchrist used various models to show that the shape and flexibility of molecules affect the type of attack . |
| 24 | The second is that the multiplicity of authorities increases the number of administrators and clerical workers , so imposing a heavy cost on an economy that can ill afford to use its resources in this way . |
| 25 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 26 | Mr Davies did not contest an application by the aggrieved client , Mr Parsons , that he should be struck off the roll of solicitors following the reduction on taxation of a grossly inflated and inaccurate litigation bill from £197,000 to £67,000 . |
| 27 | In Briggs v Oates [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 407 the plaintiff and his partner in a firm of solicitors employed the defendant as a solicitor for a period of five years . |
| 28 | There have been a number of tragedies involving the travelling public . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |