Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
| 2 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
| 3 | The National Computing Centre commissioned a survey of assessment of the impacts of office technology on organisational structures and relationships , and that work was completed in 1985 . |
| 4 | The study also suggests that priority ought to be given to research which synthesises available evidence and arguments about key aspects of welfare policy , including the unit of assessment for the purposes of tax and social security , personal freedom and preventive health measures and the social responsibility for dependants . |
| 5 | Where a capital sum ( as defined ) is paid directly or indirectly in any relevant year of assessment by the trustees of a settlement to the settlor then , to the extent that there is an amount of income available ( as defined ) in the settlement , the settlor can be taxed on that capital sum as if it were income . |
| 6 | The research has 3 principal aims : a ) to throw light on the process of assessment from the viewpoints of parents , children , professionals responsible for identifying special needs , and administrators responsible for producing a formal Statement of a child ; s needs ; b ) to describe , and provide an analysis of , sources of conflict and of agreement in the assessment process ; c ) to develop a theoretical understanding of the concept of EBD from the view-points of the various people involved in assessment , whether as clients or as professionals . |
| 7 | There were also changes within the labour markets , with strong evidence of decentralization from the cores to the metropolitan rings and outer rings . |
| 8 | Speaking in Moscow Tun Razak denied that he had arrived to obtain the official approval of the USSR for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ‘ because the responsibility for this rests with the countries of Southeast Asia themselves , acting on a collective basis ’ but he hoped that ‘ according to the extent of progress of the countries of Southeast Asia on this path towards our goal the Soviet Government will show sympathy and understanding towards us ’ . |
| 9 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
| 10 | What is undeniable is the determination of the bishop to bring the cult of Benignus under the auspices of the Church , if it was going to exist at all . |
| 11 | In rejecting Descartes 's theological argument for a physical principle , he did , however , extend the process of differentiation between the provinces of science and religion . |
| 12 | His spokesman Mr Zlobin said Mr Khasbulatov was receiving numerous telegrams of support for the results of the Congress session . |
| 13 | Frequently , the support teacher becomes the source of all forms of support as the boundaries between education and counselling are blurred . |
| 14 | Dudayev claimed that he had received expressions of support from the leaders of Georgia and Azerbaijan , and also from the largely Moslem autonomous republics of Tartaria and Dagestan . |
| 15 | His increasing tide of support from the populations of the Arab and wider Muslim world has puzzled Western observers , some of whom had actually believed that the Arabs might be only too glad to be rid of him with Western help . |
| 16 | Mr Hanley also partly blamed a lack of support among the employers of part-timers for the drop in their numbers . |
| 17 | Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the Policy Advisory Committee have recently considered the question of homosexuality , there appears to be little possibility of change in the conditions of lawful homosexual conduct . |
| 19 | We showed him two films , and gave him evidence of change in the motives of men affecting trouble spots and putting things to rights , socially and politically in many parts of the world . |
| 20 | However , it is not justifiable to discuss a problem from the angle of insanity if there is no indication of insanity in the facts of the problem . |
| 21 | She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees . |
| 22 | In John Ray 's The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation ( 1691 ) , there was a sense of exultation in the wonders of nature . |
| 23 | A loss of expertise in the areas of sexual assaults , child offences and missing persons--previously the province of policewomen . |
| 24 | Importation seems the most likely answer for many of these metals , but the existence of scrap in the forms of late Roman silver coinage , plate and , increasingly , Germanic silver may easily have satisfied the demand . |
| 25 | The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Hence unfair dismissal and redundancy are considered by the tribunal , as are cases of discrimination on the grounds of race , sex or trade union activities . |
| 27 | She was also asked to produce a Code of Practice to promote equality and ensure the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race and gender . |
| 28 | This state of affairs is an example of discrimination against the needs of older people ; it not only causes great suffering but unnecessary economic costs . |
| 29 | For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north . |
| 30 | The day of the opening of Danu to the emissions of the outside world , a couple of ancient boats gurgled alongside the wharf , bearing a crowd of stage extras from the outlying , historically malai islands . |