Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The judgments of the visitors in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B .
2 The autocratic leader tended to give orders , and to interrupt the activities of the boys by giving commands to do something .
3 At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords .
4 I would like to help with the activities of the Friends of the Ulster Orchestra in the following way(s) :
5 In other words , to explain or understand crime and deviance we must be at least as much concerned with the activities of the conferers of these labels as with the recipients .
6 State publications were to be instructed and private publications " stimulated " to present the activities of the authorities in a favourable light .
7 Meanwhile Scotland Yard confirmed that officers from the Obscene Publications Squad have been closely monitoring the activities of the Children of God cult in Britain .
8 To satisfy the court that these conditions have been met , it is necessary to obtain either oral testimony or , in the vast majority of cases , a signed statement from the person that occupies ‘ a responsible position in relation to the management of the activities for the purposes of which the computer was used ’ ( s.5(4) ) .
9 A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released .
10 To some extent these differing viewpoints may be regarded as ideological positions advanced in the defence of the interests of particular groups , notably the natural parents and the ‘ substitute carers ’ ( foster- and adoptive parents ) .
11 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 .
12 He said that he intended to lead an internal political current within the UCR called the " Movement for the Defence of the Principles of Social Democracy " .
13 The Manchu 's half bow and the response of the surveyors to it were equally cold .
14 The response of the authorities to the inadequacy of market methods of control was to introduce , and increasingly rely upon , non-market methods of regulation .
15 Its addition to the superfusate ( 10 - 5 M ) abolished the response of the strips to electrical field stimulation ( n=30 ) ( fig 5 ) .
16 During the nineteenth century the response of the courts to claims by employees injured at work tended to be hostile .
17 Grain size analysis of fine sediments depends not on direct measurement of the particles themselves but rather upon indirect computations of diameters based on observation of the grain behaviour in fluids or the response of the fluids to displacement by the grains .
18 Thus , since the administration of NK2 tachykinin receptor antagonist reduced the response of the airways to acetaldehyde in animals pretreated with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor , a contribution of neuropeptides to acetaldehyde activity was considered a critical point .
19 The history of media will look different according to whether you explore their economic and financial character ; their links to politics and government and to other possible centres of power ; their social aspects , providing certain types of occupation and status and , through their contents , helping to shape their society 's culture from one generation to another ; or their psychological importance , of the kind indicated in the response to the surveys about TV and radio in the 1970s .
20 That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour .
21 Imro concluded that it was ‘ not good enough ’ — monitoring was applied over-literally , higher-risk members were less easy to identify , and the response to the crises of the last days was not adequate .
22 The larger the temporary component of a real wage change , the more significant will be the response from the suppliers of labour .
23 Section 742 states that an individual shall be deemed to have power to enjoy the income for the purposes of s739 if he comes within one or more of the following heads : ( a ) To enure for benefit The income is in fact so dealt with by any person as to be calculated , at some point of time and whether in the form of income or not , to enure for the benefit of the individual .
24 If an overseas company invests in shares and the structure is caught by s739 then the entire dividend comprises the income for the purposes of s739 and it is not possible to deduct in computing the chargeable income revenue expenses such as investment advisory fees , management fees , safe keeping charges , security handling fees and bank charges and registered and executive office fees .
25 The settlor thereafter withdraws the income of the investments in the form of the repayment of the loan .
26 It was not held , and the decision does not involve , that when a body of trustees receive income of the trust estate not taxed at the source and proceed to distribute it among beneficiaries , they are not assessable to Income Tax and are bound to pay over the income to the beneficiaries without deduction , leaving it to the Revenue to pursue the beneficiaries .
27 Referring to the by now well-established consensus that grammar should be based upon " educated " usage rather than some abstract principle of " correctness " , Gurrey is none the less unconvinced that any radical change is likely to take place given " the inability of the leaders of today to learn , and their intellectual self sufficiency " .
28 The inability of the police in small provincial towns to protect Salvation Army processions from violent attack seemed a characteristic of the times .
29 The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire .
30 For example , the instruction Add A to B specifies the addition of the contents of store addresses A and B , leaving the result in store address B. A typical two-address instruction format was illustrated in Figure 3.1(d) .
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