Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The addition of lime has to be matched to the known hardness of the water and to the distribution of this between the calcium and magnesium hardness . |
| 2 | The six-stage BOOKWORMS series is followed by the OXFORD BOOKWORMS COLLECTION , which gives students the opportunity of reading works by well-known authors in unabridged and unsimplified form . |
| 3 | Though charges for certain services have been introduced and increased , the majority of funding comes from central government sources ; |
| 4 | Although the Bury to Heywood line has been disused since 1980 , the majority of track remains in place thanks to the persuasive powers that Rochdale Council exerted on British Rail at the time . |
| 5 | In most African countries the prime loyalty of the majority of people continues to be the extended family and its clan , and ultimately the tribe as the ‘ widening out of the family ’ . |
| 6 | The majority of opinion reports from the SD and other agencies of the regime reaching the Nazi leadership point nevertheless towards conclusions about the impact on morale similar to those we have witnessed for the Schweinfurt area . |
| 7 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 8 | Its profundity , he argues , lies in the fact that the unity of marriage enters into the mystery of the unity of ‘ Christ and his church ’ . |
| 9 | Two institutional reforms that may be of particular importance in the explanation of the growth of foreign portfolio investment are the abolition of foreign exchange controls and the reduction of transactions costs in securities markets . |
| 10 | Why does he refuse to discuss the reduction of salmonella controls with the consumer organisations ? |
| 11 | With the abolition of land cultivation grants ( except for pasture ) under both AHDS and AHGS schemes , and the reduction of drainage grants to 50% ( AHDS ) or 30% ( AHGS ) since 11 December 1984 , a major incentive for agricultural intensification is removed . |
| 12 | Between 1981-6 , corporate tax rates were much harsher on US affiliates of foreign owned firms , who found their low US taxes offset by the reduction of tax credits in their home countries . |
| 13 | Frustration with the ineffectiveness of words lies behind a lot of physical violence . |
| 14 | THE first exhibition in Scotland of watercolours by the Prince of Wales opens at the Palace of Holyroodhouse tomorrow . |
| 15 | Paleontologists reconstructed the history of life from the fossil record , while morphologists studied the variety of animal forms in order to work out their evolutionary relationships . |
| 16 | In a similar manner , cost-cutting exercises move always in the direction of cutting costs without a specific target . |
| 17 | A chiral species rotates the plane of polarization of plane polarized light that is passed through it ; the direction of rotation depends on which enantiomer is present , for the rotation is equal and opposite for the two enantiomers . |
| 18 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 19 | With T and V constant , the identity can be rewritten as follows : It now follows that changes in M , initiated by the monetary authorities , will cause proportionate changes in P. Notice that the direction of causation runs from changes in the stock of money to changes in the general price level . |
| 20 | Among his main achievements as resident commissioner were the passing of the Intermediate Education Act ( 1878 ) which established a system of ‘ payment by results ’ for secondary schools , based on success in public examinations ; the recognition of the Irish language as an ‘ extra ’ subject ( for result fees ) in national schools from 1879 ; the provision of state grants for denominational teacher-training colleges ; and the introduction of compulsory free education by the 1892 Irish Education Act . |
| 21 | An important part of this work is the provision of cash grants to visually impaired people in need . |
| 22 | The participation of America in the war in 1917 naturally involved the provision of Ambulance trains for United States troops . |
| 23 | This clearly involved the construction of a new east-west road and at least one contemporary north-south cross-street , the provision of side drains within the defended area and the erection of at least one probable public building . |
| 24 | In other cases , again , the existence of norms seems to be a substitute for a pre-cultural disposition . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 26 | The Board of Works sits at God 's right hand . ’ |
| 27 | The board of directors consists of four independent directors and five executive directors . |
| 28 | The board of directors consists of at least three but not more than eleven members . |
| 29 | The board of governors consists of the finance minister from each member state . |
| 30 | The reliability of science follows from the inductivist 's claims about observation and induction . |