Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criticism that Elliott and Ebbutt make of this approach is three fold : values underlying judgements are not revealed ; the analysis is atomistic and ignores the inter-relationships among features of a school 's activities ; and areas are inevitably ignored . |
| 2 | He might also , quite obviously , direct the activities of bishops throughout the Church , translate them and control them . |
| 3 | In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system . |
| 4 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 5 | Up to a point the tsarist police could control the activities of intellectuals within the confines of the empire , but silencing Herzen was beyond their powers . |
| 6 | This indicated that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type substance in the gut and its oral administration test reflects the sum of the activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colon . |
| 7 | The teacher 's slap , and his colleagues ' support , served notice that women , too , would in future be subject to the disciplines of institutions outside the family , that fathers and husbands would have to share their authority over women . |
| 8 | The refusal of Erastus to derive the forms of bodies from the stars , or from anything within nature , pointed toward the empiricism of Bacon , for whom the only guides to knowledge were experience and the bible . |
| 9 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 10 | Ecclestone controlled the marketing and the television and the contracts with promoters at the circuits . |
| 11 | The principles of State responsibility require that the acts of organs of the State or individuals within a State be attributable to the State for the purposes of establishing liability . |
| 12 | In employment the induction rites influence attitude formation about the firm ; in training professionals the attitudes of leaders of the profession exert strong influences on attitude formation . |
| 13 | ( d ) changes in the attitudes of teachers towards the function and utilisation of the library in response to the Project , and especially in respect of curriculum development ; |
| 14 | The attitudes of governors to the mass media vary , but most are reported to bring pressure to bear on the press , radio and television . |
| 15 | This study is designed to gather information on the attitudes of Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the main principles which should underline welfare policy . |
| 16 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 17 | The attitudes of adults to the mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched , and because many of the issues involved are emotive , these attitudes are difficult to change . |
| 18 | Overall , the attitudes of children in the action schools where all the interventions took place became noticeably more liberal , especially on sex role and occupational stereotypes and the ‘ masculinity ’ of science . |
| 19 | The crowds of visitors to the Dolls ' House at Wembley are a proof that the public do appreciate your work . |
| 20 | The brainchild of Mirage owner Steve Wynn , it attracts the crowds like bees round a honey pot to his Polynesian-themed Mirage hotel . |
| 21 | It explores the rituals of fans on the way to the game as well as the organisation of the curva , a spectacle during the game between rival fans or tifosi . |
| 22 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 23 | To sum up then , according to the so-called unorthodox view , the company , or rather individuals on the conglomerate 's behalf , deals on either inside information acquired in the course of business about another company , for example , an investment banking client on the verge of announcing an increase in expected profits ; or on information ‘ leaked ’ by one arm of the conglomerate about a long or short position it has taken as market maker on specific shares and which it would like to off-load into the accounts of customers in the conglomerate 's fund management arm . |
| 24 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 25 | Third , there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and " fuller versions " when it is replaced by a clause ; for example , consider : ( 31 ) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest ; Ernest was guilty ( 32 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case , for instance , there may not be any strong beef tea at all ; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point . |
| 26 | For example , you could interpret the meanings of events in a narrative , starting with a description of what happens at an apparently realistic level , then interpreting the events as having an alternative , symbolic meaning . |
| 27 | There should be ‘ more active involvement of the shareholders in matters regarding the audit ’ . |
| 28 | For neurophysiologists and neuropsychologists , the way forward in understanding perception has been to correlate these dimensions of experience with , firstly , the material properties of the experienced object or event ( usually regarded as the ‘ stimulus ’ ) and , secondly , the patterns of discharges in the sensory system . |
| 29 | The Doctor walked curiously around the small cemetery , noticing the patterns of footprints in the dusty ground . |
| 30 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |