Example sentences of "[noun] of uncertainty [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the public sector there is a great deal of uncertainty about the assumptions implicit in budgets . |
| 2 | The many political changes in policy in 1988 has created a great deal of uncertainty about the future administration of classes . |
| 3 | The proposals would undermine the principal effect of removing the ‘ subject to ’ opinion , which is to encourage better reporting of uncertainties in the financial statements themselves . |
| 4 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 5 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 6 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 7 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 8 | He saw the flicker of uncertainty at the back of Weis 's eyes , and smiled inwardly . |
| 9 | This additional information can be used to reduce the level of uncertainty in the project , producing the posterior probability of the same outcome . |
| 10 | This additional information can be used to reduce the level of uncertainty in the project , producing the posterior probability of the same outcome . |
| 11 | Colonoscopy was performed in 25 patients , one with ulcerative colitis as a primary investigation and in 24 to examine areas of uncertainty after the barium enema , to search for other lesions ( for example angiodysplasia ) , or to remove colonic polyps . |
| 12 | Although he allows for many areas of uncertainty in the study of catharsis , Scheff nevertheless accepts the universality of the need to handle destructive emotions , and proposes that ritual , as a cathartic experience , be reinstated in the West as ‘ a dramatic form for coping with universal distress ’ ( 1979 : 114 ) . |
| 13 | The approach again follows the process of problem bounding by establishing areas of uncertainty in the design rather than detailed analysis . |
| 14 | There is a large degree of uncertainty about the extent to which women worked underground in the eighteenth-century coal industry . |
| 15 | The extent to which the Course encourages and allows choice puts a significant degree of uncertainty into the planning process . |
| 16 | The amount of contingency sum allocated to each of these budgets should reflect the degree of uncertainty within the work of the design team as well as the degree of control which the project manager wishes to retain over the team . |
| 17 | The amount of the contingency sum should reflect the degree of uncertainty in the definition of the project and the firmness or otherwise the budget . |
| 18 | However , it is now generally agreed that there is a large range of uncertainty in the numerical results quantifying the risks of an accident , as recent reactor accidents have highlighted . |
| 19 | Heir of uncertainty in the shadow of Raine Old problems face the new Earl Spencer as he takes over Althorp from his shrewd stepmother |
| 20 | Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people . |
| 21 | The limited empirical work on the importance of uncertainty as a variable affecting investment decisions yields some support for this argument . |
| 22 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 23 | Making the announcement , which follows two years of uncertainty about the zoo 's future , Dr Gipps said £2.5 million was already assured for the capital project which would begin in the next financial year . |
| 24 | The Bank of England and the Department of Trade and Industry have already approved the deal which ends more than two years of uncertainty about the ownership of Ansbacher . |
| 25 | The deadlock also reflected the general feeling of uncertainty on the international stage engendered by events in the Soviet Union during August . |
| 26 | And there was a deep feeling of uncertainty about the continuing validity of the Three Pillars of Britain 's traditional grand strategy — defence of the British Isles , maintenance of a favourable balance of power in Europe , and projection and protection of British interests overseas . |
| 27 | Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks . |
| 28 | The 1990 elections were held against an unfamiliar background of uncertainty within the Japanese political system . |
| 29 | For most quantities , baby universes seem to introduce a definite , although fairly small , amount of uncertainty in the predicted values . |
| 30 | The school 's curriculum manager and acting vice-principal , Phil Dean , said there was a lot of uncertainty over the new number seven overlapping the old C and D grades . |