Example sentences of "the [noun] of [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 2 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
| 3 | The provisions of the Charities Act 1992 probably affect the activities of most charities in the UK . |
| 4 | A letter dated 11 October 1262 from Roger de Doncaster , king 's clerk , to John de Kirkby , the chancellor tells us something about the activities of these men in the French capital . |
| 5 | Wherever comprehensive psychogeriatric services have been developed , they have usually been organised around the activities of some sort of multidisciplinary outreach team drawn from the professions of nursing , occupational therapy , psychology , social work , and psychiatry . |
| 6 | ‘ The activities of this detachment of the 15th Fusiliers , and subsequently those of the 25th Regiment , should really be described as the wholesale plundering of the many vehicles in and around the village of every type of valuable . ’ |
| 7 | Dolphins will also come to the defence of each other in fighting off an attacker or threat , and they are ready to extend these forms of rescue to humans in distress . |
| 8 | Any political decision that could lead to the closure of either Devonport or Rossythe would also put the defence of this country at risk . |
| 9 | By assigning elasticities and values of time obtained from the literature , it will assess the response of each group to different levels of road pricing , the extent to which each group benefits or loses , and the impact of these different group responses on the overall performance of road pricing . |
| 10 | The leaders of the labour movement concluded from this that the British government had a responsibility to defend democracy against fascism and were increasingly bitter about the apparent indifference or even acceptance which characterized the response of many Conservatives to dictatorship in central Europe . |
| 11 | Previous studies have shown that ET-1 is a mitogen for fibroblasts and acts synergistically to amplify the response of these cells to other growth factors . |
| 12 | The response of most analysts to this complex problem is to present their transcriptions of the spoken text using the conventions of the written language . |
| 13 | " It tends to inculcate a spirit of caution in publishers of potentially actionable statements which we regard as salutary " was the response of this committee to a reasonable reform which would bring libel law into line with other civil actions . |
| 14 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 15 | " That income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be the income of that individual for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts " — the individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom can be chargeable under the section whether or not he receives the income . |
| 16 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 17 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 18 | From 1908 onwards successive governments made adjustments to the income of some groups of parents in the light of their responsibilities ( for example , servicemen , the unemployed , widows and some income tax payers ) . |
| 19 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 20 | For example , the last syllable of teacher may not need to be distinguished in the tree until the addition of another word of two or more syllables such as tedious . |
| 21 | ‘ With the addition of another player on top of this one , we definitely believe we 'll be back on track again . ’ |
| 22 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 23 | The addition of this gallery to those already active in the city will help to redefine the role of another contemporary centre , the Douglas Hyde Gallery . |
| 24 | The papers lay on the table , as they were , with the addition of some folders from 1985 that North had promised . |
| 25 | Also , regulation may prohibit the addition of some nutrients to groundwater — eg nitrate . |
| 26 | He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine . |
| 27 | Those who wish to vote for the addition of these words to deliverance number two would you please stand . |
| 28 | Analysis of secondary schools in the south east revealed a minority were responsible for the majority of all exclusions in the area . |
| 29 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 30 | We faced legal bills of £120,000 and set out to raise the majority of this money by public appeal , to save the magazine from the threat of extinction . |