Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [pron] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 2 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 3 | Fourteen Afar deputies resigned from the RPP on Dec. 31 , having criticized government leaders for " placing the defence of their privileges above the defence of the interests of the Djiboutian nation " and for continuing to insist that FRUD fighters were foreigners , not Djiboutian nationals . |
| 4 | Lacking a defensible mountainous region into which , like the counts of Foix , they could retreat , their energies were primarily absorbed in the defence of their territories against their immediate neighbours . |
| 5 | He compounded the defence of his players with arrogance by saying that he 'd be asking the FA not to allow Buksh to referee any more Arsenal games this season . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it is important that , with assistance if necessary , they can observe the response of their pupils to these processes and see that their short- and medium-term effects are consistent with the intentions . |
| 7 | De Man controls the response of his readers to controversial propositions about language in two ways : by attributing these propositions to his object texts , and by controlling the distance between reader and object text according to his own oscillation between uncritical proximity and critical distance to those texts . |
| 8 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 9 | The Divisional Court , and the majority of their lordships in the House of Lords , were struck with what might be thought to be the obvious purpose of the Act , which was clearly passed with a view to assisting the police in the detection and prevention of crime . |
| 10 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
| 11 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 12 | Visual studies , for instance , examine the majority of their modules by the assessment of a diary ( 25 per cent ) and an end of term exhibition of work ( 75 per cent ) . |
| 13 | At the last count , Britain boasted about 11 million private shareholders , the majority of them beneficiaries of the privatisation boom . |
| 14 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 15 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 16 | It is important , however , not to read into this recommendation more than was intended for , as will become clear , it was never the intention of either the Wolfenden Committee or those who were eventually successful in their campaign to incorporate the majority of its proposals in the criminal law , to remove the stigma from homosexuality . |
| 17 | Gandalf Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Ontario has signed a letter of intent to sell the majority of its shares in Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc to Geotek Industries Inc : the Canadian communications equipment supplier will retain a minority interest in the company , which today represents 3% of its revenue ; Gandalf also says that revenues for the fourth quarter ended Aprch 31 , 1993 were slightly below expectations and a modest loss is expected for the period — strong business in the UK were moderated by a weakening of sterling against the US dollar in the fourth quarter and lower than expected revenues in continental Europe and in other international markets also hit the figures . |
| 18 | And in many ways I do n't think it 's important , and I , I think that in the majority of our children with those kinds of difficulties you find the two in association , and you ca n't work on one without working on the other . |
| 19 | Lully composed the majority of his ballets between 1654 and 1671 for performances at the French court . |
| 20 | After a brief spell in Senegal , from where he was deported , he spent the majority of his years in exile in The Gambia . |
| 21 | This , as I understand it , is now the construction accepted by the majority of your Lordships in the light of the Parliamentary history . |
| 22 | Unionists were therefore soon frustrated by what seemed the weakness of their leaders in swallowing- Asquith and getting nothing in return . |
| 23 | Continued US pressures for an early cut in interest rates to encourage growth [ see pp. 37977-98 ; 38170 ] were firmly resisted by Japan and Germany , which were reportedly concerned that the weakness of their currencies in relation to the dollar would add to inflationary pressures . |
| 24 | That is why , instead of taking the weakness of his desires to himself , Stavrogin continues in figurative , musing vein , sad and free , very beautiful in context : ‘ You can cross a river on a tree-trunk , but not on a chip of wood . ’ |
| 25 | Together they devoted the remainder of their lives to the service of deaf people . |
| 26 | Paige snapped the locks on her case and put the remainder of her possessions into her shoulder-bag . |
| 27 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 28 | He no doubt found this preferable to spending the remainder of his days in the Tower . |
| 29 | Thus the remainder of our laws for SEQ are cast in binary form . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State found it difficult enough to maintain the unity of his allies in Europe over the question of re-arming Germany . |