Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal .
5 The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series .
6 However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right .
7 Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable .
8 The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right .
9 But the effectiveness of rewards varies with the desired behaviour .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 He increased significantly the number of Russians travelling to the West and the number of skilled foreigners settling in Russia .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Liberalisation of ownership is seldom a matter of states retreating to a policy of indifference .
17 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 .
18 The internalisation of values based on a commonality of experience and reinforced by collective committee decision making is certainly , in principle , capable of producing formidable business success .
19 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 .
20 Unprovoked by media hysteria , the last two years have seen the issue of values emerge in the staffroom .
21 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 .
22 Hence the diagram represents a determiner followed by any number of adjectives followed by a noun .
23 An example is the sequence of acts performed by a mallard drake during courtship .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very
28 The RHA 's review was carried out by a small team of experts led by a psychiatrist and including a senior nurse and a senior social services representative .
29 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 ’ .
30 A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation , as in London .
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