Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr B 's altered appetite — for improvements as distinct from ladies ' maids — is proof of his moral reformation , for the villainy of Lovelace in Clarissa ( 1748–9 ) is signified by his neglect of his country seat ; while the excellence of Sir Charles Grandison , Richardson 's pattern hero , is indicated by his obsession with mortar , creating a little heaven on the earth of his estate . |
| 2 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 3 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |
| 4 | During the war Montagu worked for the Ministry of Information in the film division . |
| 5 | Secondly , if the polytechnic in question had deteriorated in resource provision and management to the point suggested , this pointed to the lack of an early warning system through the Inspectorate , who had a responsibility for the monitoring of standards in non-university institutions . |
| 6 | The accusation ( the first to be made against Barry publicly and under oath ) came as Lewis pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiring to purchase crack , as part of a plea bargain in which the prosecution dropped a further 15 charges in return for the assistance of Lewis in investigating Barry . |
| 7 | a more specific power to appoint a British consul or his deputy as a special examiner may be exercised where a Civil Procedure Convention subsists between the United Kingdom and the relevant foreign country providing for the taking of the evidence of any person in that country for the assistance of proceedings in the High Court ( the unspoken assumption being that any such Convention will permit consuls to act ) ; and |
| 8 | However , Nuttall has shown that this creates considerable problems for the interpretation of results in relation to , for example , class size . |
| 9 | The compression of child bearing has had important implications for the participation of women in the formal labour market . |
| 10 | Examples of the influence of the liquid — or solvent — on the solubility of a particular gas are clearly shown by the values for the solubility of oxygen in table 6.2 . |
| 11 | Although he denied it , at the time he fled to Damascus where the Syrians — never slow to take advantage of those in need — offered him protection and later supported him in his successful candidacy for the presidency of Lebanon in 1970 . |
| 12 | Camille Chamoun 's power was ultimately founded upon his Nimr ( Tigers ) militia , commanded by his son Dany , who was himself to be a declared candidate for the presidency of Lebanon in the aborted 1988 elections . |
| 13 | Which novelist ran ( unsuccessfully ) for the presidency of France in 1848 ? |
| 14 | Hun Sen proposed in a speech delivered on Oct. 17 that the party support Sihanouk 's candidacy for the presidency of Cambodia in the future elections . |
| 15 | The rationale for the inclusion of B in the money equation is that governments may finance expenditures which they are reluctant to pay for through taxes by methods which expand the money stock . |
| 16 | Given this array of auxiliaries and the possibility of applying any number of them simultaneously , it is plain that a citation order for the inclusion of auxiliaries in a number must be settled . |
| 17 | A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the school curriculum . |
| 18 | In all professional areas , library , information and archives , there will be greater emphasis on and greater demand for the inclusion of training in management methods . |
| 19 | All that MacIver shows here , and I think that it is all he intends , is that in certain circumstances , including those where domestic creatures are happily housed , one can argue for the promotion of animals in the hierarchy . |
| 20 | By proposing this ingenious but patently artificial contrivance , Friedman was able to account for the non-neutrality of money in the short run . |
| 21 | As far back as the 1690s , with the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London and the provinces , moral transgressors , including violators of the Sabbath , profane swearers , prostitutes , keepers of bawdy houses , actors in indecent plays and buggers , had been subject to sustained efforts at moral control , while public officials in the royal court encouraged the societies as an important contribution to the woefully inadequate police . |
| 22 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 23 | It goes on : ’ ( 2 ) The CAP negotiations must build on reasonably broad agreement on the principle of resource withdrawal in the shape of arable set-aside. ( 3 ) The negotiations must also develop constructively the common thread of agreement on the environment , and on the need for permanent measures to compensate for the disadvantages of farming in Less Favoured Areas . |
| 24 | Specific standards for the assessment of software in safety–critical contexts are being developed . |
| 25 | The Acquisition of Land ( Assessment of Compensation ) Act 1919 provided by s. 2 for the assessment of compensation in respect of land acquired compulsorily for public purposes according to certain rules . |
| 26 | The Toronto-based Call-Net Telecommunications Ltd wholly-owned unit of Call-Net Enterprises Inc has bought the long-distance business of Cable & Wireless Canada Inc for the equivalent of $27.3m in cash and notes at the closing : the deal adds 7,000 customers to Call-Net 's current customer base , taking its annualised revenues to some $135m . |
| 27 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 28 | This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes . |
| 29 | Their coexistence with the annual Conference of delegates and triennial Congresses provides ample opportunity for the involvement of members in the government of the BDA . |
| 30 | The presence of antibodies to certain M paratuberculosis proteins in this condition and the finding , with sophisticated polymerase chain reaction techniques , of DNA associated with mycobacterium in the tissue of two thirds of patients with Crohn 's disease argues for the involvement of mycobacteria in the pathogenesis of the disease . |