Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun] of [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacobson and Price ( 1990 ) provide a useful summary of the ways in which human factors contribute to , and are affected by , likely global changes ; in particular , they stress the importance of the data-handling issues and the role of GIS in coping with some of the problems of data integration and manipulation . |
| 2 | New Towns at Cwmbran and Llantrisant house some of the overspill of people from Newport and Cardiff . |
| 3 | In this issue of Health Action we highlight some of the challenges that arise in the collection and use of information and some of the experiences of people who are trying to meet those challenges . |
| 4 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 5 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 6 | There are two spring widths : 1.75 inches and 2.5 inches — the narrow ones fitted to the rear of and some of the fronts of Series One 80 inch . |
| 7 | So , we 'll be looking at er , some of the categories of people who come to stay . |
| 8 | Compare this with the value of £100,000,000 netted in 1985 , which included 317kg. of heroin and it will give some idea of the growth rate and size of the problem we were tackling . |
| 9 | Their recruitment policy reflects this in the type of people they hire . |
| 10 | I costed this on the basis of staff receiving standard wages and being told on their contract that they would work 30 hours , to cover 24 hours a day . |
| 11 | Qureshi and Simons ( 1987 ) have been able to show this on the basis of data from their Sheffield study of elderly people and their carers . |
| 12 | Their recommendation was a Shell weedkiller called " Commando " , and , accordingly , the plaintiff purchased some to the value of £6,438 . |
| 13 | We have also produced separate leaflets for each of the groups of people . |
| 14 | Thus evidence of glacial and interglacial periods , such as the type of flora and fauna present , can sometimes be used to assign a sequence to events , but , as with any relative dating technique , events are only set in order . |
| 15 | Other small fish such as the fry of whiting , herring and sprats and , most importantly , sand-eels play a vital part as the summer progresses and the young terns — and skuas — are all demanding to be fed . |
| 16 | They see only the direct links such as the number of sales people on the road , or the amount of raw material used . |
| 17 | In accordance with the Protocol and Agreement , UK companies with establishments in more than one member state could be faced with implementing two sets of policies incorporating the effects of adopted Social Policy legislation ( such as the establishment of works councils ) . |
| 18 | He can weigh up non scientific considerations in his decision , such as the effect of staff morale and relations with SLAC , but Bienenstock is hoping for a scientific solution not a political or philosophical one . |
| 19 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 20 | Animals may avoid being eaten by active flight , as do moths escaping from bats ; by camouflage , which requires behavioural adaptations to fit in with the visual markings ; by warning coloration , to teach predators to avoid sickening prey ; by mimicry of successfully warning-coloured species ; or by aggregation in groups , such as the schools of fish . |
| 21 | New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large . |
| 22 | Key variables such as the quality of staff at any level and the current morale are only expressible in general verbal descriptive terms . |
| 23 | The technique was developed by Dr James C. Lewis of Imperial College , London and has been in use since the 1970s , replacing other more elaborate methods such as the use of fish bladders . |
| 24 | It is a pity , for much of the pleasure of carp fishing is this tuning-in of a highly developed hunting instinct . |
| 25 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |
| 26 | All for the sum of £50 including a setup and ‘ we 're building a couple of guitars for Gary Moore with a push/pull volume pot to provide the Peter Green out of phase sound . |
| 27 | What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use . |
| 28 | She had seen too many ghost skulls , and all under the faces of people who were now dead . |
| 29 | US libel law gives no protection at all to the reputation of people in the public eye . |
| 30 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |