Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to sign the tripartite agreement was attributed uniquely to the duplicitous tactics of the governments of Britain and France , and his final articles for Ce Soir , a series entitled " La France trahie " , provided Nizan with the opportunity to vent his anger on fascist spies , infiltrators and collaborators undermining the fabric of French society . |
| 2 | Self-conscious clarity about our epistemic methods , in that case , would require a perspicuous representation of the characteristics of the forms of discourse in question . |
| 3 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 4 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 5 | Such uncertainty also means that risk characteristics of the actors under consideration become important . |
| 6 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 7 | This section outlines some of the main characteristics of the changes in the international economy over the post-war period and starts to draw out some implications for our understanding of the UK 's position in it . |
| 8 | By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations . |
| 9 | For this passage very accurately and very succinctly encapsulates the characteristics of the Scots of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The citing of these two varieties will illustrate the basic characteristics of the cheeses of this type — uncut curds treated very gently and never pressed , the whey being allowed to drain naturally . |
| 11 | She shuddered as the switchback roared overhead , but stood watching as a small train meandered through a series of paths , and laughed at the joyful screams of the children on the dodgems . |
| 12 | In a logical net , the parameter values are the settings of the bits in the cells of its RAM chips . |
| 13 | They are tolerant in their bridle adjustment ( as distinct from the sophisticated 110 degree , swept-delta steerables to be found in Chapter Eight ) , and the newcomer is unlikely ever to require to alter the settings of the rings on the bridle legs . |
| 14 | The static lines which pulled open their parachutes had simply been tied to the metal legs of the seats inside the fuselage . |
| 15 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 16 | The third stage included provisions for : ( i ) direct elections to the Flemish and Walloon regional assemblies ; ( ii ) reform of the national parliament and especially the Senate which effectively duplicated the work of the Chamber of Deputies without acting as counterweight to it ; and ( iii ) defining the foreign policy prerogatives of the regions of Brussels , Flanders and Wallonia . |
| 17 | One of the classic formulations of the feelings of settled but militarily powerful people on the quiet side of a frontier about their neighbours on the less settled side is to be found in a nursery rhyme : |
| 18 | Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls . |
| 19 | If one then thinks of cross-tabulations of the users by sex , age , marital status , social class and so on , the proliferation of possible data makes the mind boggle . |
| 20 | The men of Devon were in 1204 granted the right to ‘ assart , impark , take all kinds of venison , have dogs , bows and arrows and all kinds of weapons , and to make deerleaps ’ , except on the outskirts of the forests of Dartmoor and Exmoor , where neither deerleaps nor enclosures might be made . |
| 21 | The abilities of the computer will remind some readers of the experiments in many school resource centres using , instead of the Dewey Classification and a simple card catalogue , one or other variety of post co-ordinate indexing , frequently with optical coincidence punched cards . |
| 22 | The preface reminds its readers of the contents of Furber 's nursery , as well as his own satisfaction with his work : ‘ Gardening is the Employment Providence has allotted me ; and it happily falls out to be a Business the most suitable of all others to my Genius and Inclination . |
| 23 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
| 24 | The WWF pollution and energy officer , Tessa Robertson , commented that " such events are ominous indicators of the effects of climate change . |
| 25 | The task is to generate indicators of the concepts in order to see better just what empirical relationships the phenomena pointed to by the concept of class might be . |
| 26 | Indicators of the impacts of science need to be broadened to include training and networks , as well as direct knowledge transfer , according to Pavitt . |
| 27 | Assuming these measures to be fairly reliable indicators of the needs in question , the differential allocation of staffing was appropriate and just . |
| 28 | While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages . |
| 29 | In order that the scheme functions efficiently it is essential that the reception offices of the hotels within the scheme inform central reservations of the up-to-the-minute availability of rooms to let at all times ; failure to do this could result in double-bookings , loss of goodwill and unnecessary charges being levied against the hotel for the service . |
| 30 | To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto . |