Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progressives , and radicals supporting reorganization of the schools and the introduction of non-streaming , are carrying their attack upon the grammar schools ' élitism into the curriculum , dismantling the traditional subjects by rearranging them through interdisciplinary work , projects and themes . |
| 2 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 3 | The termini post quos of these finds could be tabulated with the diagnostic contents of each context , but the value of such an exercise must be tempered by the fundamental problem of the chronological association of the coins and the other artefacts and their respective use-life . |
| 4 | Although Ferdinand 's domain was much reduced by the advance of the Turks into Hungary and Croatia , the association of the Hungarians and Croats with the Habsburgs remained until 1918 . |
| 5 | The children immediately try to kill the animals without thinking of the consequences or the morality of it . |
| 6 | That attitude shaped the thinking of the Leaders and Trustees in Edenderry and during the mid-1930s the need for a larger building was felt . |
| 7 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 8 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 9 | The subject of the first-floor frescos is The Triumph of Apollo and the main halls on the second floor were painted with the Gathering of the Gods on Olympia and the Coronation of the Arts and Sciences ( 1722–3 ) . |
| 10 | Certainly the advent of a child in a previously childless marriage can result in a radical readjustment of the priorities and intimacy of relationship between the parents . |
| 11 | An understanding of why settlements are deserted and have presumably been relocated can be revealed from an examination of the chronology of the settlements and by comparison with the locational qualities of later sites . |
| 12 | Compromises and deals have to be hatched and officers become the main repository of the views and demands of competing factions . |
| 13 | Thus , consideration should be given to the way in which policy goals may be effectively translated into political and legal reality , based on both a realistic perception of the obstacles that have to be overcome and an accurate assessment of the contribution which lawyers and litigation may make in promoting desirable social change . |
| 14 | But the concern with overcoming political marginality remained on the sidelines of the main public debate because it questioned the perception of the rioters as driven by irrational , uncivilized , and criminal instincts . |
| 15 | Only as we begin to respond personally to the text 's content and open ourselves to its message ( irrespective of whether the consequence of this is an acceptance , modification , or rejection of it ) do we go beyond a mere decoding or perception of the words and begin to perceive meanings . |
| 16 | Some of the decisions now open to us require a careful sifting of information and balancing of the pros and cons . |
| 17 | There was a smiling Chinese gentleman who cooked in the small forward dining car where the grooms , among others , would be eating , and an unsmiling Canadian who would be cooking in the main central dining car for the bulk of the racegoers and the crew themselves . |
| 18 | Floy was becoming uneasily aware of the looming bulk of the Trees and of the scurryings and the rustlings and the patterings of unseen creatures all about them . |
| 19 | Remember that the main judges do n't see the bulk of the entries because the competition organisers weed them out beforehand . |
| 20 | Earlier , the coalition of the CDS and the Popular Party ( Partido Popular — PP ) [ see p. 36776 ] , had lost its absolute majority on the council on July 9 , 1989 , when a CDS councillor went over to the mixed group . |
| 21 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 22 | There was considerable farmer involvement in the decision-making and administration of the co-operatives and this , allied to good management , ensured a firm control . |
| 23 | We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property . |
| 24 | INVESTORS should take note of the fact that Sir Ian MacGregor , hammer of the miners and now chairman of printing group HunterPrint , has been increasing his stake with the purchase of 840,000 shares , giving him a stake of 3.4 per cent . |
| 25 | The defeat of the Mensheviks and the decomposition of the Second International deflated the confidence of moderate Marxists . |
| 26 | Mr Pienaar 's spokesman said : ‘ The Administrator-General is very disturbed that with the evidence at our disposal we realise that a situation could be building up which could lead to the ultimate defeat of the aims and objectives of Resolution 435 . ’ |
| 27 | Transfer to MPhil or PhD candidature is made on the recommendation of the supervisors and the head of department at the end of the first year . |
| 28 | It is programmed to take into account the driver 's wishes , the speed of the wheels and the speed of the engine . |
| 29 | The responsibility would stretch from duties to the manufacturers — like Fiat , Ford , Renault , Honda , Toyota , Mercedes Benz and Peugeot — to the smell and content of the fuel , the quality of the tyres , the size , shape and speed of the cars and the overall image of a business in which , when people talk of budgets , the figures ring up in unreal lines of noughts . |
| 30 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |