Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , in July 1937 , at the height of the Spanish Civil War , Nizan attended the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture held in the beleaguered and bombarded city of Madrid . |
| 2 | Treurnicht also promised the support of his party in the defence of homelands threatened by the ANC . |
| 3 | The defence of necessity succeeded in the trespass action as the police had not been negligent in creating the emergency . |
| 4 | The benefits offered by the AA are not as substantial as they may , at first sight , appear since the free legal representation scheme may be withheld altogether at the discretion of the Association ; the AA will not negotiate in respect of the defence of claims made against members ; the AA can not give advice or act where the Association or any of its subsidiary companies may be involved . |
| 5 | As a result of the second limb of what is now s681(1) ( a ) being passed into law , the Inland Revenue could assess all the income under Part XV of the Taxes Act ; with regard to the income of £2,000 derived from the American shares the Inland Revenue may have an option whether to charge the same under Case V of Schedule D or if , for instance , s672 is the relevant provision under which Part XV is applied , then under Case VI of Schedule D ( s679 ) . |
| 6 | She taught women to embroider designs she herself had made as an addition to the income of families hit by the destruction of the vines by the oidium disease in the 1850s . |
| 7 | Apart from the addition of variables derived from the two new questions , the other tables do not exactly correspond . |
| 8 | While the concrete is still wet , a more natural effect can be created by the addition of rockwork set into the concrete to create the faces of each small basin . |
| 9 | ( iii ) The eggs deposited in the spring develop slowly to L3 ; this rate of development becomes more rapid towards mid-summer as temperatures increase , and as a result , the majority of eggs deposited during April , May and June all reach the infective stage from mid-July onwards . |
| 10 | But , considering that the majority of reports originated from developed countries , and in view of the incompleteness of registration of deaths in developing countries and the quality of reporting on causes of death , this must necessarily be a low estimate . |
| 11 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 12 | The majority of buckets found in early Anglo-Saxon graves are of stave construction , bound with bronze and whose construction requires the same control over materials as a cooper . |
| 13 | The majority of members travelled by train and then cab , the fares for which were a regular source of comment . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State said that if the majority of Members elected from Scotland were Scottish National party Members , the Government would regard that as a vote for independence and accept it . |
| 15 | However , on the eve of the referendum , the majority of priests preached against abortion . |
| 16 | The majority of women remained in the ‘ tribal trustlands ’ as subsistence farmers , relying on remittances to supplement their meagre income from farming . |
| 17 | The majority of authorities relied on ad hoc arrangements when providing personal assistance , mainly consisting of utilising the home care service . |
| 18 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 19 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 20 | During the siege , the majority of prisoners sided with Chavez , who hosted a banquet for them before surrendering for medical treatment . |
| 21 | The characters upon which these subdivisions are based are as follows : the nature of the arm spine articulation surface of the lateral arm plate , the SEM has revealed that the majority of genera studied in this family have one form , a comma-shaped tubercule ( Fig. 13 ) but one genus , Ophiomyces , does not . |
| 22 | The majority of fittings shown on this page are available in both capillary and compression versions for copper pipe . |
| 23 | The majority of socialists agreed with the Communist Party in turning away from the abstentionist logic embraced by the ILP . |
| 24 | In these circumstances , the majority of staff employed by the Council will transfer to the successor authorities . |
| 25 | With an average staffing enhancement in Phase 3 schools of 0.9 , and with the majority of appointments made at MPG level , many such teachers found the developmental aspects of their job specifications constantly subverted by the need to cover for colleagues . |
| 26 | The situation in the Azerbaijan capital , Baku , remained generally quiet , however , and there was a return to work at the majority of enterprises closed since January 's general strike . |
| 27 | The majority of patients presented with painless obstructive jaundice ( Table I ) . |
| 28 | Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 30 | For , example , the majority of workers employed by Debenhams in Belfast city centre 's much hyped Castlecourt complex are women . |