Example sentences of "the [noun] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of Labour 's policy commitments was to try again , like their predecessors in 1946 , to do something to rationalize planning and curb the activities of the land speculators . |
| 2 | While subsidiarity , indeed subordination , may be inherent in provisions like the new Articles 126 and 127 on education , which refer to ‘ supporting and supplementing ’ the action of Member States , and indeed in Article 2 of the Agreement on Social policy following the protocol on Social policy in the Maastricht text , which states that the Community shall ‘ support and complement the activities of the Member States ’ in certain listed fields , the continuation in force of existing legal bases for action subject to a new general requirement of subsidiarity raises fundamental legal issues , particularly as to the exclusivity of Community competence , as to the necessity for Community action and as to the appropriateness of Community action . |
| 3 | In 1978 a Tribunal was appointed , under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Croom-Johnson , to investigate the activities of the Crown Agents . |
| 4 | Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries . |
| 5 | The discount market centres on the activities of the discount houses . |
| 6 | This should read ‘ The activities of the tuberculosis units … ’ as there were in fact three units , the Tuberculosis Research Unit ( 1948–65 ) , the Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Unit ( 1965–84 ) , and the Unit for Laboratory Studies of Tuberculosis ( 1954–86 ) . |
| 7 | This is an important consideration , but for the moment it can be noted that the activities of the drink sellers took place within existing recreational forms . |
| 8 | This is the language of the dictator and it is exactly why those who manage land are so concerned at the activities of the water authorities , even more so if they become commercial profit-orientated concerns . |
| 9 | Latterly there was an attempt by the South African authorities to distance themselves from the activities of the money men . |
| 10 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 11 | The market is still , of course , seen as made up of the activities of the market participants — the consumers , producers , and factor owners . |
| 12 | These may seem somewhat recondite fripperies , but the activities of the lord lieutenants ensure that the fine gradations of class distinction filter out from the Court across the land . |
| 13 | The nation is beset with rumour and counter-rumour of alleged liaisons , tapes and the activities of the security services . |
| 14 | In February unknown gunmen killed Col. ( retd ) Rifat Ugurlutan , allegedly for his involvement in the activities of the security services , while on March 10 a police officer was assassinated in Istanbul by members of Dev Sol allegedly for his part in a 1989 May Day shooting incident [ p. 36668 ] . |
| 15 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 16 | He also knows that the Government set considerable store by having in hand arrangements that will inspire confidence across the face of the community in the activities of the security forces and the RUC . |
| 17 | If the government could acquire broad discretionary powers under the Defence of the Realm Acts 1914–18 to deal with the emergency could not also a socialist government to meet the peacetime emergencies of poverty and sickness ? |
| 18 | The response of the rebel movements to these concessions was , however , to intensify their offensives and by December fighting had reached the streets of the capital . |
| 19 | Ms Barclay said she had been greatly encouraged by the response of the off-licence owners , who would be distributing drinks measures leaflets and beer mats . |
| 20 | For practical purposes , therefore , ‘ pollution ’ is something which normally requires some action on the part of the enforcement officer and is defined not by legal rules but by the response of the enforcement authorities . |
| 21 | The response of the security forces was first to bring in police . |
| 22 | Hon. Members should not doubt , either , the response of the security forces and the Government to that level of violence . |
| 23 | The response of the security forces to the peaceful demonstrations had been generally restrained , but on July 23 , following several unsuccessful attempts by the opposition to take over government buildings and install its " ministers " in office , Ratsiraka declared a state of emergency , including a night-time curfew , and issued warrants for the arrest of opposition leaders . |
| 24 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 25 | But the task was increasingly beyond them , as social surveys showed the inability of the welfare services to cope with the specific needs of the aged , the disabled , and one-parent families . |
| 26 | The stumbling block here does seem to be the inability of the Charity Commissioners themselves to keep up with the volume of work . |
| 27 | It was ultimately the inability of the access streets to cope with a hugely increased traffic problem which choked the markets to death in the 1960s and led to their demolition . |
| 28 | Observers believed that Alia was taking the opportunity of the embassy sit-ins to strengthen the hand of the reformers in the party and government . |
| 29 | The Proprietor at its expense shall supply 1 ’ video masters consisting of all or any combination of the forms of the video sketches as itemized in Schedule I , to the specification of the Publisher and including any front or end matter supplied by the Publisher . |
| 30 | The audit certificate which is attached to the majority of the Appropriation Accounts says : |