Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 3 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 4 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 5 | By allowing a number of copies of the same document to be produced on request from the microfilmed back-up copy , branches would be likely to establish their own duplicate files . |
| 6 | When a large number of copies of the same document or form are required , they can be duplicated or photocopied from a master copy . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the numbers of women receiving outdoor relief decreased from 166,407 on 1 January 1871 to 53,371 on 1 January 1892 , and the numbers of widows in the same category fell from 53,502 on 1 January 1873 to 36,627 on 1 January 1892 . |
| 8 | The Sept. 3-4 meeting did successfully negotiate , however , an agreement on the transfer of servicemen from the former Soviet armed forces to the armed forces of individual CIS member states , and agreements on other defence-related issues . |
| 9 | This is a set of objects with the same representation . |
| 10 | A smile can charm and delude us so that we accept even lies and insults — providing that they are accompanied by the expected flash of teeth at the same time ! |
| 11 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 12 | We 've had names that rhyme ( Lillee c Willey b Dilley ) , and even amazing technicoloured opening attacks ( Brown and White for England against Pakistan ) , but until this year , we had never seen two sets of namesakes in the same match . |
| 13 | Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts . |
| 14 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 15 | Imports of vegetables from the former COMECON ( Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ) countries had fallen , and fruit imports from Cuba had been reduced by 75 per cent . |
| 16 | The iterated game is simply the ordinary game repeated an indefinite number of times with the same players . |
| 17 | Krauss observes another case of mass reproduction in Manet 's ‘ assembly line ’ style of the continued overpainting of a large number of canvases at the same time . |
| 18 | This means that the accounting principles adopted must have an acceptable degree of objectivity in the sense that any accountant would produce an acceptable set of accounts from the same data . |
| 19 | We might wish to say that any accountant would produce the same set of accounts from the same data . |
| 20 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 21 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 22 | In Oscar Chinn Judge Schucking thought that parties to a treaty which had placed restrictions upon conflicting treaties concluded by less than the full complement of parties to the former treaty , could regard as invalid a subsequent treaty concluded by a minority to the first treaty . |
| 23 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 24 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 25 | ideally consist of words of the same class , preferably nouns , as they are easiest to put into frames . |
| 26 | This can leave an elderly person alone and facing a bewildering number of losses at the same time . |
| 27 | Past experience of losses of the same nature as a current loss was found to reduce the person 's capacity to deal with the current loss . |
| 28 | They also pressed for a purge of supporters of the former communist regime on the university campuses and for increased student participation in university faculty councils . |
| 29 | He charges in and out of shops with the same patter : ‘ Bonjour , a va ? |
| 30 | But the " pervasive " view of style also has to confront the fact that there may be a multiplicity of styles within the same work . |