Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 2 | We have referred to the activities of building societies on numerous occasions already . |
| 3 | When we come to consider the activities of insurance companies as a form of financial intermediation this distinction between the two types of business will be crucial . |
| 4 | The word ‘ consumerism ’ has been coined to describe the activities of pressure groups in this area , and the term ‘ consumer protection ’ used to describe the efforts made by Government and other bodies to provide rules and codes of conduct for relations between commercial organizations and their customers . |
| 5 | The second notable point is the one which , when the remit was published , led to much criticism of it , and which is registered in paragraph 1 of the minority report signed by three of the nine members remaining from the ten who at the outset composed the Committee : Certainly , the terms of reference specified industrial democracy as an extension of the activities of trade unions into the control of enterprises , other than public sector enterprises , by which the members of those unions were employed . |
| 6 | The activities of finance houses in providing credit facilities are also examined . |
| 7 | At the point of final sales too , trading companies coordinate the activities of group members in retail distribution . |
| 8 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 9 | Then there was the debate at the National Union of Teachers ' conference about the response to government plans for teacher assessment . |
| 10 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 11 | In a group of cases in 1978 and 1979 the Court of Appeal sought considerably to limit the immunities of trade unionists from criminal and civil liabilities for acts done ‘ in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute ’ . |
| 12 | The addition of Navy personnel to the Simonova 's regular complement had clearly brought about a certain amount of re-allocation of accommodation . |
| 13 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 14 | In the light of this , the addition of depreciation charges to water revenue accounts is justified . |
| 15 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | Gresham Telecomputing has increased the scope of its Dataserve range of ICL communications products with the addition of client versions of the product for VME , VMS and Unix-based systems , with a Windows version following later in the year . |
| 17 | In the phylum Mollusca — the molluscs which include the majority of sea animals with shells — the class Gastropoda includes all the snails , and the class Bivalvia all the clams ( mussels , scallops , etc . ) . |
| 18 | While the majority of pub buildings from the post-1914 period survive , however , it is virtually impossible to find an unaltered interior in any of them . |
| 19 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 20 | rebate while the majority of pensioner couples with modest savings or occupational pensions will have to pay the full council tax ? |
| 21 | To be elected , a candidate should receive more than half of the votes cast nationally and in the majority of union republics in a more than 50 per cent poll . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it has been reported that the majority of heroin users in Glasgow , Edinburgh and London preferred to inject heroin , as did up to 400 users in a study in Leeds in 1985 ( Polley et al . |
| 23 | Whereas in Scotland over 36 per cent of graduates obtained a pass , ordinary or general degree in 1986 , the figure for the UK as a whole was only 12.7 per cent , with the majority of pass degrees in England being in the fields of medicine , dentistry or veterinary science ( Source : USR ) . |
| 24 | She confirmed my suspicions that the majority of office computers in London contain nothing more vital than the personal cv's of thousands of job-hunting junior staff . |
| 25 | If one looks at the majority of market experiments in which convergence to the market equilibrium is rapid , one sees that the decision-problem solved by the subjects in such experiments is relatively simple ; recently , however , there have been a number of more complicated market experiments in which the subjects face more complicated decision-problems . |
| 26 | The fully battened main is cut with five ref points , enabling the majority of sail reductions to be made on this sail . |
| 27 | Book of Plumbing and Central Heating is intended for the home owner who would like to carry out the majority of plumbing jobs in the home but lacks the necessary knowledge and experience . |
| 28 | Colonel John Sidney North , on the other hand , spoke for the majority of Punch enthusiasts in the House , and ‘ could not understand why they should be so mealy-mouthed about flogging a set of ruffians ’ , denouncing anyone who dissented from flogging as ‘ a wretched old woman for his lenity ’ . |
| 29 | For example , if the majority of adult members of society enter into marriage and produce children , these facts can be observed and quantified . |
| 30 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |