Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 2 | We have referred to the activities of building societies on numerous occasions already . |
| 3 | When we come to consider the activities of insurance companies as a form of financial intermediation this distinction between the two types of business will be crucial . |
| 4 | The word ‘ consumerism ’ has been coined to describe the activities of pressure groups in this area , and the term ‘ consumer protection ’ used to describe the efforts made by Government and other bodies to provide rules and codes of conduct for relations between commercial organizations and their customers . |
| 5 | The second notable point is the one which , when the remit was published , led to much criticism of it , and which is registered in paragraph 1 of the minority report signed by three of the nine members remaining from the ten who at the outset composed the Committee : Certainly , the terms of reference specified industrial democracy as an extension of the activities of trade unions into the control of enterprises , other than public sector enterprises , by which the members of those unions were employed . |
| 6 | The activities of finance houses in providing credit facilities are also examined . |
| 7 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
| 8 | At the point of final sales too , trading companies coordinate the activities of group members in retail distribution . |
| 9 | The response of company law to that threat , and the response that a reformed company law might usefully make , will be considered in succeeding chapters . |
| 10 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 11 | Then there was the debate at the National Union of Teachers ' conference about the response to government plans for teacher assessment . |
| 12 | The second finding is consistent with our previous study showing that the response to pentagastrin stimulation in duodenal ulcer patients is not changed after eradication of H pylori . |
| 13 | The response to bolus distension within the oesophagus is proximal contraction and distal relaxation and the generation of an aboral contraction wave . |
| 14 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 15 | Multi-national companies take 80% share of the income from drug sales in the Philippines |
| 16 | In a group of cases in 1978 and 1979 the Court of Appeal sought considerably to limit the immunities of trade unionists from criminal and civil liabilities for acts done ‘ in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute ’ . |
| 17 | The addition of Navy personnel to the Simonova 's regular complement had clearly brought about a certain amount of re-allocation of accommodation . |
| 18 | The normal average dietary calcium intake was 140 mg/24 hours which was doubled to 280 mg/24 hours in the above specified groups by the addition of calcium lactate to the drinking water . |
| 19 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 20 | Second , the addition of aquarium salt to the isolation tank has in some cases also proved positive ; add approximately 1gm per litre . |
| 21 | The addition of cisapride ed to a further reduction of postprandial reflux after lunch . |
| 22 | In the light of this , the addition of depreciation charges to water revenue accounts is justified . |
| 23 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | The addition of sodium metabisulphate in solution . |
| 25 | Figure 3 shows the effect of the addition of egg lecithin on the nucleation time of seven human biles . |
| 26 | Gresham Telecomputing has increased the scope of its Dataserve range of ICL communications products with the addition of client versions of the product for VME , VMS and Unix-based systems , with a Windows version following later in the year . |
| 27 | In our network 's submission on the consultation document we welcomed the opportunity for user expertise to be used in this way if properly supported and paid for . |
| 28 | Most finance texts would suggest that purchasers of assets via the financial markets are entering a fair game in that the market will price assets according to expectations of future cash flows incorporating some risk discount ( albeit one likely to reflect systematic risk , ie after taking the opportunity for portfolio diversification into account , rather than the total variance of the returns ) . |
| 29 | Harry rose from his chair , eager not to let the opportunity of escape slip from his grasp . |
| 30 | Especially note that the forms of frequency dependence of the transfer functions of filters considered in previous sections were simply accepted for what they were . |