Example sentences of "of [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced . |
| 2 | The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing . |
| 3 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 4 | I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case . |
| 5 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 6 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 7 | Flocks of owls The population explosion led to new social habits . |
| 8 | The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building . |
| 9 | He has given one apostle Gaudi 's face , and his robot-like Roman soldiers are copies of chimney-pots the architect designed . |
| 10 | Given that these defendants are unlikely to know the names of solicitors the responsibility for acting quickly settles on the duty solicitor . |
| 11 | Nature of operations The Bank lends on a commercial basis ( although loans usually have a grace period of five years before repayments ) since the intention is to supplement private finance , not compete with it . |
| 12 | Nature of operations The Bank operates on a non-profit-making basis , and so its interest charges are close to the average rates it has to pay in the EC and international capital markets . |
| 13 | However confident the mass of the population may have felt in the durability of Britain 's world role , those who ruled in Britain knew full well the kind of dangers the country faced and the need to take steps to meet them … |
| 14 | Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word . |
| 15 | On Oct. 23 in the Chamber of Deputies the government won another confidence vote on sections of the 1993 budget freezing public-sector pay and establishing new taxes . |
| 16 | In the Chamber of Deputies the PRSC lost its overall majority , with the PLD winning 44 seats , the PRSC 42 , the PRD 32 and the Independent Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Independiente — PRI ) two seats . |
| 17 | Mr Collin added : ‘ Obviously , if people have a number of creditors the poll tax could be a casualty . |
| 18 | All these , if examined carefully , show in their arrangements of streets or patterns of roads the impact imposed on them by their ‘ planning lords ’ . |
| 19 | There is no limit to the range of improvements the project will be involved with . |
| 20 | After several months of discussions the leaders of 32 trade unions agreed in mid-July to join forces and sanctioned the creation of the National Trade Union Centre ( NATUC ) . |
| 21 | Should Clinton win , that official announcement would herald the biggest clearout of personnel the White House has seen . |
| 22 | It takes up where MacPuke left off , offering a whole range of activities the computer is likely to perform , and the opportunity to attach any sound to them . |
| 23 | If I could just ask you what sort of activities the Guild , the Guilds are actually involved in today ? |
| 24 | By anticipating the kinds of proposals the buyer is likely to make , the seller can plan the kinds of counter-proposals he wishes to make . |
| 25 | My intention in this chapter is not to construct a systematic model of the properties of material culture in society , but rather to investigate through a series of illustrations the interaction between material culture and certain contextual dimensions , emphasizing the implications of the materiality of the object as symbol . |
| 26 | It did n't pick up specific vendors ' implementations of technologies the way COSE purports to do either . |
| 27 | Despite the rapid increase in the number of large-scale excavations of settlements , only three have been published ( Bell 1977 ; Millett 1983 ; West 1985 ) ; a similar problem pertains with the number of cemeteries examined since the Second World War and which remain unpublished , denying a generation of researchers the data from modern excavations . |
| 28 | That 's the number of birds the Welshman has in his aviary and he relaxes with them as he winds up preparations for Saturday 's WBC title challenge against Benn at Alexandra Palace . |
| 29 | To enable investigation of a plurality of views the modelling framework will be one which is designed to answer counterfactual or ‘ as if ’ questions rather than one which attempts to predict what the position of the economy will be in a number of years . |
| 30 | In a large number of cases the licence is issued to a firm , i.e. a limited company , then the company secretary is liable for the misuse of the trade plate on behalf of the company . |