Example sentences of "of [det] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 2 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 3 | Finally , the attitudes of some women illustrated the ‘ queuing principle ’ ( Martin and Wallace , 1984 ) , namely , that in times of high unemployment , certain social groups are felt to have greater claims to paid employment . |
| 4 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 5 | This is due to a number of misguided actions , the chief of which is the yielding to a deep-seated wish on the part of some parents to prolong the babyhood stage for as long as possible . |
| 6 | The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed concern at the refusal of some clergy to accept the vote of the Synod . |
| 7 | Even now , the National Curriculum notwithstanding , it still provides the basic framework for much professional discussion , and the culture of some schools makes the entertaining of alternatives difficult . |
| 8 | There is , however , a counter-tendency on the part of some historians to stress the home market and to share the scepticism of contemporaries such as MacPherson , who considered overseas markets to be only one-thirtieth as important for the growth of industrial output as home demand . |
| 9 | But eventually they managed to get hold of some pieces to suit the new look : two Bauhaus chairs , a bent-arm chair in black by Mario Botta , a halogen light by VeArt from Italy and a huge black refrigerator by Zanussi , designed in Italy by Pezzatta . |
| 10 | In his article today , headed ‘ Foul language ’ ( Lifestyle ) , Brian Pendreigh raises an issue of crucial importance in our society : the desire of some individuals to censor the publication of political opinions with which they disagree . |
| 11 | There is , where the question of God 's existence is concerned , an unwillingness on the part of some unbelievers to concede the evidence for theism , and an unwillingness on the part of some believers to concede the limitations of that evidence . |
| 12 | The more arresting flip side of this 12″ contains the real beef through ‘ Volumina ’ , with its toyed-around Tranceporter vocal sample and the much more effective and piano cruising ‘ Allround ’ , which lifts the basis of the pretty uninteresting A-side into a more dripping acidic romp . |
| 13 | The success of such initiatives indicates the benefits are targeting . |
| 14 | About 68 per cent of illegitimate births were jointly registered in the names of both parents in 1987 compared to 53 per cent in 1977 , and in 1987 , 70 per cent of such parents gave the same address . |
| 15 | The language of such curricula denies the real economic and cultural oppression experienced by disabled people . |
| 16 | Estimating that this totals half a person per machining centre , then the introduction of such machines halves the direct labour requirement . |
| 17 | And most readers of such documents understand the code so this does not much matter . |
| 18 | For my part , I doubt the feasibility of such attempts to disengage the meaning of the word ‘ aggression ’ from local systems of meaning . |
| 19 | The emergence of such policies illustrates the dramatic shift that has occurred within a relatively short space of time in the social interpretation of sexual differences and inequalities . |
| 20 | It goes without saying that this designation is solely a function of the propensity of such locales to attract the very ugliest examples of Homo erectus . |
| 21 | Internal moulds of fossil nautiloids often reveal a series of such lines marking the boundaries of the chambers — these are known as suture lines . |
| 22 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 23 | Although the courts might be willing to imply terms , for example that the licensee or " purchaser " of such systems owns the copyright in any output , it is obviously more sensible to recognize the difficulties associated with this part of the Act and to make suitable contractual provision for ownership ( as opposed to authorship ) of computer output . |
| 24 | An alternative explanation of such uplifts involves the effects of density changes in minerals in the upper mantle . |
| 25 | Breach of such prohibitions constitutes the prototype of moral evil ; the essence of sin is disobedience to a taboo . |
| 26 | A scale like this will normally consist of a series of such statements tapping the same attitudinal dimension . |
| 27 | We have little evidence from research as to how the members of such households view the changing balance of the relationship . |
| 28 | The rarity of such corpora reflects the effort required in the analysis . |
| 29 | The pursuit of such objectives required the establishment of appropriate structures for the coordination of the project as a whole , for the implementation of the project in each school , and for the planned provision of the inservice activities to which it was to lead . |
| 30 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |