Example sentences of "of [v-ing] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 2 | The practice of using the passage of years since the birth of Christ as a numbering system had its genesis in some work carried out by a monk , Dionysius Exiguus , in AD525 . |
| 3 | The budgeting system then becomes capable of reflecting the complexity of cases handled , rather than the simple numbers of patients treated . |
| 4 | Thus there are recognised as general principles : the independence of the legal profession , the traditional virtues of trust and personal integrity , the need for confidentiality , the maintenance of respect for individual bars and law societies , the desirability of prohibiting the involvement of lawyers in incompatible occupations and of regulating personal publicity , and the recognition that the interests of the client must come before those of the lawyer . |
| 5 | An increasing number of countries are moving towards a policy of prohibiting the sale of fireworks to the public and instead , having organised displays operated by experts ; ensuring that there is careful segregation of spectators from staff who are igniting the fireworks . |
| 6 | However since proper scientific strength analysis is a recent affair , much the older and the commoner is that of maintaining the quality of materials . |
| 7 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 8 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 9 | Durham County B team entertain their Cumbrian counterparts at Barnard Castle golf club this weekend when players on the brink of full county honours are given the opportunity of catching the attention of selectors . |
| 10 | Critics like Münder regard the KJHG therefore as a means not of easing the burden of families but of increasing their responsibilities ( Münder , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | carries on the business of financing the acquisition of goods by others by means of such agreements ; and |
| 12 | ( e ) Ways of encouraging the participation of parents and children in child protection conferences and criteria for their exclusion . |
| 13 | Critics point to the disservice to the public of allowing the self-interest of organizations to determine welfare outcomes . |
| 14 | The latest survey of 1,473 church-goers shows 67pc approve of allowing the ordination of women , 22pc would vote against and 11pc were undecided . |
| 15 | This had included restricting the activities of middlemen ( factors or " badgers " ) who were suspected of enhancing prices and of allowing the fixing of prices by local justices . |
| 16 | But light gets its knowledge — and has its intelligence and its being — by going over things without the necessity of eating the substance of things in the process of purchasing its truth . |
| 17 | The Commons ' Environment Committee also accused the Government of starving the inspectorate of resources and staff . |
| 18 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 19 | It must find a way of affirming the experience of others . |
| 20 | The process of gaining the confidence of criminals is liable to be time-consuming and thus expensive . |
| 21 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 22 | One way of representing the relationship of parts to a whole is as a rank structure , in which each rank is made up of one or more of the rank below . |
| 23 | The greatest novelist will be the person who is capable of basing the description of events on as comprehensive a knowledge as possible of their constituent parts . |
| 24 | A special conference to be held in Tombouctu with the aim of ending the rebellion of Tuaregs in the north of the country [ see p. 38325 ] was postponed from Nov. 15 to Dec. 27 . |
| 25 | A conference was held on Dec. 16-18 in Mopti , some 500 km north-west of the capital Bamako , with the aim of ending the rebellion of Tuaregs in the north of the country which had occurred in July [ see p. 38325 ] . |
| 26 | The government has a specific policy of keeping the cost of utilities down to help the business community maximise profits . |
| 27 | As Coward says , ‘ the problem is that of understanding the position of women as a sex without presuming that being a sex entails forms of natural behaviour and position ’ ( 1983 : 3 ) . |
| 28 | I see this change in direction as a development and broadening of the experience of understanding the history of women . |
| 29 | None the less , for the purposes of understanding the development of landforms associated with volcanism and intrusive igneous activity , we need to appreciate a few key properties of igneous rocks . |
| 30 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |