Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 " . |
| 5 | The Manchu 's half bow and the response of the surveyors to it were equally cold . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its addition to the superfusate ( 10 - 5 M ) abolished the response of the strips to electrical field stimulation ( n=30 ) ( fig 5 ) . |
| 8 | During the nineteenth century the response of the courts to claims by employees injured at work tended to be hostile . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The settlor thereafter withdraws the income of the investments in the form of the repayment of the loan . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | The inability of the police in small provincial towns to protect Salvation Army processions from violent attack seemed a characteristic of the times . |
| 14 | 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) . |
| 15 | For instance in one area recently there has been a series of protests and demonstrations regarding poor and inadequate housing conditions , the majority of the members of the committees which were responsible for organising the protests are members of the IRA . |
| 16 | Fortunately , like the majority of the members of the carabinieri at that time , they were not notable for their intelligence . |
| 17 | The majority of the members of both bodies hold lifetime seats , having been originally elected in 1947-48 to represent constituencies on the Chinese mainland . |
| 18 | The majority of the members of the National Assembly and the Legislative Yuan hold seats for life , having originally been elected in 1947-48 to represent constituencies on the Chinese mainland . |
| 19 | The majority of the inhabitants of late medieval England lived close to the soil and were engaged in agriculture . |
| 20 | The majority of the houses in the neighbourhood lacked both electricity and running water . |
| 21 | The majority of the routes on the Ormes were not climbed as sport climbs , but as traditional routes where the second played a crucial role . |
| 22 | During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings . |
| 23 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 24 | Prior to sailing on its second delivery , Commander McGuinness toured the carrier and noted Wasp 's entire complement of F4F Wildcats parked on the open flight deck to accommodate the majority of the Spitfires in the enclosed hangar decks below . |
| 25 | The majority of the articles in this section move on from accounts of what it can be like ‘ being there ’ , to ‘ looking out ’ at some of the external issues which impinge on the teaching of mathematics in schools . |
| 26 | There must be an awareness by the majority of the difficulties for most people in acquiring English and the limitations must not be confused with lack of ability or a lack of motivation to participate in wider society . |
| 27 | The majority of the refugees in India ( housed mainly in camps in the states of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Orissa ) had fled to escape the violence of 1990-91 , after India had abandoned its military involvement and withdrawn the Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from the island . |
| 28 | Very few Russian nobles moved west , but " in 1858 the majority of the nobles in the Russian Empire … still lived in the nine western gubernii [ provinces ] " . |
| 29 | This explanation does not work so well for the majority of the texts of Scaevola , which are not excerpts from a dogmatic tract in which the jurist was discussing the disparate regimes of legacy and trust , but opinions given in practical cases . |
| 30 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |