Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monarch thus became formally dependent on Parliament for consent to the raising of taxes and for the passage of legislation . |
| 2 | The identification of areas in which there is bipartisan agreement on the desirability of change or of the maintenance of existing services will be of particular interest . |
| 3 | ‘ Please have another glass of champagne and in the meantime I will bring my order book from the office . ’ |
| 4 | Within these arguments disputes occur about the significance of expertise and about the scope for effective limitation of discretionary power . |
| 5 | The Chairman then brought the Meeting to a close with thanks to all who had attended and an expression of hope that with the support of an enthusiastic and growing membership the Society would continue to prosper during the coming year . |
| 6 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 7 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 8 | All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography . |
| 9 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 10 | In order to equal the shares of the children , any sum paid by the intestate to a child by way of advancement or on the marriage of the child must be brought into account . |
| 11 | Under an agreement reached on March 2 , 1990 , between the CPD and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Democrática Independiente — UDI ) , representatives of pro-Aylwin parties would occupy the posts of president of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate . |
| 12 | Society seeks to rectify the effects of this divergence of private and social interests by imposing limits or prohibitions on certain kinds of emissions or on the use of polluting processes ; other techniques , such as taxing the production of harmful wastes , are also available to force companies to ‘ internalise ’ the full costs of its activities . |
| 13 | To me , the adult world was not a place where the individual could act freely and achieve growth , both in the acceptance of responsibility and in the likelihood of success . |
| 14 | According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism . |
| 15 | However , the key Ministries of Defence and of the Interior went to NPKA members . |
| 16 | Shares in Thorn-EMI Plc jumped 10 pence to 882 pence at the opening yesterday on reports that GEC Plc is close to agreeing to buy Thorn 's defence interests for about £140m ; Thorn has been trying to sell the unit for two or three years now , but the Sunday Telegraph reports that any deal will require the approval of the Ministry of Defence and of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 17 | The monument is fortuitously under the windows of the Ministry of Defence and under the gaze of Lord Trenchard whose statue was placed in Whitehall Gardens in 1956 . |
| 18 | Wales was integrated with England in 1536 by act of Parliament ( the Laws in Wales Act ) , and Scotland and England were incorporated in 1707 by the Treaty of Union and by the Act of Union with Scotland . |
| 19 | Not all cases of Crohn 's disease were identified in the colectomy specimen ; nevertheless we now rarely perform pouch construction at the time of colectomy because of the possibility of unrecognised Crohn 's disease . |
| 20 | Indeed such is the number and effect of these abrogations of privilege that in the view of the editors of the latest edition of Cross on Evidence , 7th ed. ( 1990 ) , p. 427 , this should give pause for thought on the part of anyone who regards the privilege as a fundamental principle of English law . |
| 21 | The third form of patronage is again distinct , in that it is concerned less with the direct retaining and commissioning of artists than with the provision of some kind of social protection or recognition . |
| 22 | But not , even after another fifteen years or so , culminating in the winter of discontent and in the fall of Mr Callaghan 's administration , experience enough to induce institutions and attitudes to accommodate themselves . |
| 23 | This unforeseen situation developed at the very time when local authorities were also facing the problems of reorganisation and of the introduction of structure planning . |
| 24 | Finally , the railway was the vital engine of settlement and of the opening of vast regions to new crops , in the prairies of Canada and the plains of the United States , the interior of East Africa , the tea-growing mountain areas of Ceylon , the Argentine pampas , the stock-rearing and fruit-growing areas of Australia and New Zealand , and the rubber plantations of Malaya . |
| 25 | The CNIAG later took part in discussions with the Raybestos workers and continued to share information with the workers by producing a series of leaflets on the hazards of asbestos and on the need for workers to organize autonomously from the trade union in order to defend their health and safety . |
| 26 | The bank did not appeal against the finding of negligence nor from the finding of undue influence . |
| 27 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 28 | Detailed recommendations included : that every school should have a policy for ‘ language across the curriculum ’ and a suitably qualified teacher to support it , and that LEAs should appoint special advisers to support the schools ; that there should be screening procedures to identify language difficulties at an early stage , and specialist assistance available at both school and LEA level for those in need ; that language in education should form part of initial training for every teacher ; that in-service education in reading and language should be expanded ; and that a system of monitoring be set up , using new instruments to assess a wider range of attainments than in the past and establishing new criteria for literacy . |
| 29 | The issue of smuggling and of the sale of items of national significance is central to the present scheme . |
| 30 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |