Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] of information " in BNC.

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1 The release and/or the withholding of information provides an extremely strong power base .
2 Emulating private firms could just as well mean collusion , the formation of oligopolies , price rings and cartels , or the withholding of information from consumers .
3 So is the co-ordination and management of the school 's policies on assessment and achievement recording ; or the management of information technology in the curriculum and in administration ; or the coordination and management of staff training and development .
4 The bases of power are coercion , or the ability to apply physical sanctions ; remuneration or the ability to control rewards ; normative power or the control of symbolic rewards ; and knowledge , or the control of information .
5 Routine , manual operations , which in many cases machines can do , are dying out and being replaced by skilled , technically orientated jobs which often involve either computers or the channelling of information by some other mechanism from one place to another .
6 We are in the middle of a strategic information revolution where the value of information is recognised ’ .
7 Where the sequence of information is important to the understanding of a given topic ( for instance , the origins of the Unification of Italy or the setting up of the National Governments , 1931–39 ) you must develop a system that clearly but succinctly shows the connections between events and ideas and also pinpoints continuities/discontinuities in a line of development .
8 Typically an object is a producer or consumer of information or an item of information .
9 The appointments preserved the balance of portfolios between the two parties , except that the Ministry of Information , previously held by Mario Rueda Pena of the New Majority faction of the MIR ( MIR-NM ) , now went to Jaime Céspedes Toro ( ADN ) .
10 It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence .
11 In this Chapter we show that the range of information which may be obtained from the use of the more common techniques is very wide ; we also explain the ways in which less conventional sources of information about molecular vibrations may provide valuable data .
12 One widely accepted explanation is that the ordering of information is determined by the sender 's hypotheses about what the receiver does and does not know .
13 Secondly , we should note that the adding of information is not the same here as expanding units omitted through ellipsis ( see 2.7 ) ; nor is it the same as tautologically duplicating elements included in the meaning of words and saying , for example :
14 Results reported by Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) using monitoring tasks also show that the completeness of information in a clause has an important influence on its processing .
15 This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 .
16 It should be clear , on reflection , that the order of information in each answer is dictated by the question .
17 A consequence is that the kind of information we can glean is strictly limited — compared , at any rate , with that available for well-documented modern societies — but the results are still sufficiently significant to justify the effort .
18 We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably .
19 The education authorities , probably under the influence of Chamberlain , obviously recognized that the gathering of information concerning industrial conditions needed to be linked to the exchanges , as did the mechanism of registration .
20 There was also some evidence that the rate of information arrival ( as proxied by futures or spot volatility ) had a positive effect on volume , particularly when volatility was estimated using the daily range .
21 The report concluded that the passing of information to paramilitaries did take place , but on a very limited scale , and it recommended procedural and technical improvements .
22 My hon. Friend will be glad to know that the denial of information will shortly come to an end .
23 The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises .
24 First , the lack of a grammatical category in a given language suggests that the indication of information associated with that category is regarded as optional .
25 In less extreme circumstances others were expressing concern that the holding of information and its transmission from teacher to teacher and from school to school might unfairly label and prejudice a child .
26 It is important to note that the source of information , either for the extraction of n-grams or for the creation of a lexicon , requires careful consideration .
27 In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) .
28 A combination of tradition , statute and powerlessness on the part of the assembly ensures that the control of information in Britain is almost entirely in executive hands .
29 The central feature of this model is that the processing of information in reading is assumed to consist of a series of levels .
30 This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew .
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