Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting as the San José VI Group [ see p. 35892 ] Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries as at Montelimar , with the addition of Panama and with Foreign Ministers from Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela in attendance , met with their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in the Irish capital , Dublin , on April 9-10 . |
| 2 | Plasma catecholamine levels tend to be normal in the majority of diabetics except in those with ketoacidosis , autonomic neuropathy and poor glycaemic control ( Christensen , 1972 ; Christlieb , 1976 ; Zadik et al , 1980 ) , although hypertensive diabetics may have increased sensitivity to circulating catecholamines ( Christlieb , 1976 ; De Chatel et al , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | They demanded the release of de la Mare and submitted a petition protesting against the annulment of statutes except by parliament . |
| 4 | On 5 November 1946 Pethick-Lawrence commented on their ‘ political immaturity ’ , and again on 9 December he told the Cabinet that : ‘ We are dealing with a body politically immature , singularly lacking in experience of the outside world , and with no appreciation of the weakness of Burma or of the difficulties … she is likely to face . ’ |
| 5 | On Thursday they would continue through the remainder of Germany and over the Czechoslovakian border . |
| 6 | A report by the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , details of which were published by the Economy Ministry on Nov. 4 , called for at least another year of economic stringency , noting that by the end of 1991 ( the first year of the three-year stabilization plan which the EC had required when making its February 1991 loan — see pp. 37968 ; 38478 ) the government would have failed to meet its targets for the reduction of inflation and of the public-sector deficit . |
| 7 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 8 | It is the fastest growing sector of advertising and marketing , both in the complexity of planning and in the volume of direct mail , arriving through letter-boxes . |
| 9 | From 1751 Rocque styled himself chorographer or topographer to the prince of Wales and from 1760 to the king , but his modest means came chiefly from print selling and , in common with many of his trade , his cartographic projects were often financially precarious and consequently protracted . |
| 10 | In fact all the variations are dominated by the intervals of the ground , and what is astonishing , this being so , is the variety of texture and above all the freedom of rhythm Britten achieves in a form once thought rigid and constricting . |
| 11 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 12 | Alexander seemed not so much to be moving in the direction of reform as to be making the achievement of emancipation more difficult . |
| 13 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 14 | Coming to it from below like this , from the direction of Oloron or from Laruns , it is a sound idea to leave the main road to the left and inspect the modest countryside in which the estimable wines of Jurançon are made . |
| 15 | The growth in value and volume of overseas trade will be discussed in the next chapter , but it is appropriate to consider here the provision of shipping and of port facilities . |
| 16 | All services have grown in absolute terms , but in per capita terms the provision of meals and of home helps has not matched the growth in the population aged 75+ and 85+ . |
| 17 | The important role of voluntary services , both in the provision of information and in providing support , has often been underestimated . |
| 18 | The regional dimension is principally to be found in 5(b) , which represented an addition to the previously stated objectives of the EAGGF Guidance Section , to improve productivity in the agricultural sector , assist in the provision of infrastructure and in the promotion of structural change among farms in rural areas . |
| 19 | She had no real objection to the change of roles or to chaperoning her own servant — to her it would be another adventure . |
| 20 | The strength of the Welf party lay on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands and especially in the support of Cologne and of its archbishop , for Cologne had strong trading ties with England . |
| 21 | But in April it still retained an image of patriotism and integrity , attracting by this the support of financiers and of the Rothermere press . |
| 22 | The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention modified by the revaluation of properties and in accordance with applicable accounting standards . |
| 23 | I have suggested that one of the difficulties facing a writer is the posing of questions that in a sense underpin the surface of the text . |
| 24 | A second possible way in which the existence of A-X and B-Y associations might facilitate the discrimination between A and B follows if it can be allowed that different associations might differ in the ease with which they are remembered . |
| 25 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 26 | There is no reason to suppose that they might not also be swayed to reject the existence of God because of particular events or even of particular arguments . |
| 27 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 28 | Because of the existence of PACs and of the Court of Referees for benefits under the insurance schemes , the new national scheme included an appeals system . |
| 29 | But will its preeminence be shadowed by the reunification of Germany and of Europe , and by the prospect of Berlin as a gargantuan cultural metropolis ? |
| 30 | SIGNED by us , two directors of the covenantor or a director and the secretary of the covenantor pursuant to a resolution of the board of directors and in accordance with the covenantor 's Articles of Association : |