Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 2 | With the death of Fisher , ended the association of Halling with the Bishops . |
| 3 | Entitled ‘ See Yourself in Hair d-sign ’ this video is aimed to encourage those thinking of starting in the business from scratch . |
| 4 | There was a good deal of plotting in the Cabinet , and amongst the dissident ex-Coalitionists . |
| 5 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 6 | Following the war , a great deal of redrafting of the official creed took place , and Scouting for Boys was repeatedly updated so that not only was militarism explicitly disowned , but the earlier racial imperialism was swapped for international brotherhood and goodwill . |
| 7 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 8 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 9 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 10 | Self-directed learning takes a great deal of planning by the teaching team , and teachers are reluctant to let go of the responsibility of being the main teaching resource . |
| 11 | At the Hammersmith Schools at West London Stadium , the ground was always packed and there was a lot of enthusiasm and a good deal of betting on the races going on . |
| 12 | Table 4.4 Recent trading history on MATIF , main contracts The Government Bond futures and options contracts account for the bulk of trading on the MATIF . |
| 13 | The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters . |
| 14 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 15 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 16 | With regard to the quality of actual provision in school libraries , the level of understanding of libraries and the use to which they are put , and the adequacy of resourcing across the country , give cause for much concern . |
| 17 | The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon . |
| 18 | Tendinitis ( constriction of the nerve tissues caused by over development of arm muscles , leading to loss of feeling in the hands ) is a regular paddock malady . |
| 19 | ‘ The disappointment of losing in the final has gone . |
| 20 | As a result of living within the rigours of a farming calendar these people understood the imperatives of the seasons ; they knew instinctively that the day did not stop just because it was dark , that work might be slack one day but fraught for the next three . |
| 21 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 22 | As a result of participating in the programme members would be able |
| 23 | However as a result of participating in the CU , tariffs against the partner countries ' exports are abolished . |
| 24 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 25 | There are provisions enabling investors to recover loss they have suffered as a result of entering into the share transactions . |
| 26 | Even though equity together with rescission gives an indemnity , this is limited in scope to cover only expenditure necessarily incurred as a result of entering into the contract ( Whittington v Seale-Hayne ( 1900 ) 82 LT 49 ) . |
| 27 | The overall pattern of the fields is the result of planning by the late eighteenth-century enclosure surveyors . |
| 28 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 29 | In Aceh Province ( northern Sumatra ) hundreds of people were reported killed and hundreds more missing as a result of fighting between the armed forces and separatist rebels . |
| 30 | Supplies from Russia via Georgia were down by one-third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption as a result of fighting in the area . |