Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk . |
| 2 | Even in such limited form , however , this defence , like the defence of act of a stranger , shifts the basis of the tort from responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk to culpable failure to control that risk . |
| 3 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 4 | The defence of honour as a theme gives emotional and moral substance to a book that has also the ingredients of a junior adventure story . |
| 5 | In 1124 Louis VI , king of France , took a banner from the altar of the abbey church of Saint-Denis to be his standard in the defence of France against a German invasion ( see pp. 177–8 ) . |
| 6 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 7 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 8 | The first , the response of faith from a child , would be identified in private consultation involving minister , parents and child . |
| 9 | Just as the response of households to a tax increase has to be taken into account , so too one needs to consider what political constraints the government faces in making such decisions and what machinery is necessary in order to put them into effect . |
| 10 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |
| 11 | This included in particular the inability of humanism as a philosophy to place adequate constraints on the exercise of freedom and also its inability to generate that set of values which is necessary if capitalism is to work . |
| 12 | This resulted in the inability of humanism as a philosophy to place adequate constraints on the exercise of freedom and also its inability to generate that set of values which is necessary if capitalism is to work . |
| 13 | Because Marxism like humanism is also the product of an Enlightenment view of the world , the practical problems of both capitalism and communism are seen to have a common origin — namely the inability of humanism as a philosophy to resolve the basic tension between freedom and control . |
| 14 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 15 | The addition of FaxAgent to an Octel voice information processing system enables users to access the mailbox via any touchtone phone to be told how many messages — whether speech or facsimile — are waiting . |
| 16 | In completely dry air this reaction proceeds very slowly , but with the addition of water as a catalyst the rate of oxidation increases dramatically . |
| 17 | He also advocated the addition of Jacques as a committee officer , together with Hickson and Pateman , in recognition of the traditional partnership principle between the University and the WEA , as existed for the Tutorial Classes Committee . |
| 18 | After 3 minutes pre-incubation at the appropriate temperature , the reaction was started by the addition of ATP at a final concentration of 2mM . |
| 19 | In 1964 , Phillips proposed that the addition of glucose to a properly balanced electrolyte solution would result in an oral treatment regimen which might replace the requirement for intravenous fluids altogether . |
| 20 | Hence , the addition of glucose to an aqueous solution of sodium , chloride , bicarbonate and potassium ions allows absorption of sodium ions and glucose , and a consequent osmotic uptake of water which pulls along the other ions by ‘ solvent drag ’ . |
| 21 | The addition of scent to a rose is the way we recognise it as a true rose . |
| 22 | Non-specifically bound polymerase was removed by the addition of heparin to a final concentration of 400 µg/ml . |
| 23 | States of motion in quantum mechanics can be superposed in a way that is analogous to the compounding of displacements in space or , more generally , to the addition of vectors in an abstract vector space . |
| 24 | It was a large warehouse that had been converted by the addition of beds into a dormitory . |
| 25 | The majority of patients in a surgical ward will undergo some sort of operative procedure during their stay in hospital . |
| 26 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 27 | but the majority of people on a Tuesday night are going for a leisurely swim are n't they ? |
| 28 | Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims . |
| 29 | Histories of the Darwinian revolution often cite his confrontation with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as a classic illustration of how evolutionary science overcame religious bigotry . |
| 30 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |