Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he realise that his policy of drip-feeding the yard with funding for the fourth boat is unnecessarily extending the lives of the Polaris boats and jeopardising the employment of thousands of workers at Barrow , simply to safeguard the seat of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) ? |
| 2 | With its careful experiments and its use of statistics the Society was , however , doing work not altogether remote from experimental psychology . |
| 3 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 4 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 5 | In summary , though choice theories appear to take as their point of departure the priority of individual autonomy , when we step beyond their criterion of personal responsibility , as defined by the concept of voluntary consent , to the question of the kinds of obligation which the state will enforce , we find that choice theorists admit that they introduce a style of moral paternalism at odds with liberal values . |