Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Privy Council accepted that the defences of act of God and act of third party prevent a plaintiff from succeeding in a claim based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher but held the defendants liable for negligence . |
| 2 | Moreover , as a result of the defences of act of God , act of a third party and statutory authority , the courts must investigate not only the reasonableness of the accumulation , but also the defendant 's responsibility for its actual escape . |
| 3 | One could argue , for instance , that the conditions of work and the forms of division of labour within the operating unit should be the subject of democratic decision-making within that unit while the general investment policy of the enterprise should be decided at the ‘ higher ’ level , by means of a mechanism involving representatives from the operating units , central enterprise staff and national planners ( assuming , that is , the kind of investment planning referred to above ) . |
| 4 | Bourdieu scores some penetrating insights into legal practice in his consideration of the forms of autonomy of the juridical field . |
| 5 | The forms of memorandum of association and articles of association are to be found in the Schedule to these regulations . |
| 6 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 7 | In this chapter Lynn Davies explores the sexism in the official and hidden curriculum of the school and its relationship to the forms of deviance of boys and girls . |
| 8 | Massey 's schematic description of the forms of organization of capital in space , or more particularly of productive capital in space , is exceptionally useful , but its very utility means that her general account has to be qualified before it is employed . |
| 9 | The effect of the Transfer Regulations is that the contracts of employment of the persons working in the business immediately before it is transferred are novated automatically to the purchaser on completion of the transfer . |
| 10 | Many of the medical supporters of the legislation had a history of involvement in hospital and sanitary work among the poor , as local medical officers and poor law doctors — work which reinforced their commitment to the acts as part of the wider politics of public health . |
| 11 | Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case : |
| 12 | The impact of religious belief on the attitudes to life of older people is particularly strong . |
| 13 | And while he was reared on metal and later discovered punk — but did n't necessarily subscribe to the attitudes for fear of losing individuality — he appreciates the blues . |
| 14 | The Solihull booklet seems to have had a powerfully benign effect on the attitudes towards SSE of Solihull secondary teachers in general . |
| 15 | By including in the survey questionnaire certain of the items from the Solihull survey ( see Chapter 8 ) concerning school self-evaluation as a general notion ( i.e. not associated with a specific scheme ) , we were also able to contrast the attitudes towards SSE of the teachers in the two LEAs , the one operating a voluntary scheme , the other a mandatory one . |
| 16 | There was simply no room — the grab-rails in front of the sink and cooker made sure of that . |
| 17 | Some of the checks for stability of TL signal involve the use of the plateau test . |
| 18 | It is to be noted that in the most recent quarter , although auction sales were 15% up on the previous quarter , the higher loss compared to last year reflects a $7 million drop in sales from the Acquavella deal , now a separate division within Sotheby 's although included in the accounts as part of their auction operations . |
| 19 | A third group are the colonialists and the neo-colonialists with experience of colonial societies . |
| 20 | They should learn about the patterns of organisation of formal expository writing : eg the introduction , development and conclusion of the academic essay ; the use of illustrations and examples in persuasive writing and of comparison and contrast in argument . |
| 21 | Measurements of photosynthetic capacity and of the patterns of accumulation of reserve carbohydrate in plants exposed to different temperatures , suggested that the inhibition of growth is not caused by inability of the plants to fix sufficient carbon . |
| 22 | Published research on the patterns of care of attacks are dominated by hospital based studies . |
| 23 | One of the signs of diversity of the field is the sheer mass of specialised publications , ranging from Focus on Vision to Anomalistic Psychology . |
| 24 | Only the signs in front of the numbers are different depending upon whether we read to right or left . |
| 25 | Many of the artists on show of course are quite elderly , and some of them are dead . |
| 26 | When property is assigned to a trustee for dividing among the creditors as part of the composition , this is called a deed of arrangement . |
| 27 | If the dangers of loss of prestige by the discipline are to be averted , James urged , not only must new measures such as joint schools and interdisciplinary studies be introduced , but the " catastrophic decline " in the medieval side of English studies must be reversed . |
| 28 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 29 | Despite the measures taken to bind the peasantry to the land , rural conditions drove a small percentage to the cities in search of work . |
| 30 | He has kept five clean sheets in his last seven outings , a feat which is down to his own ability and the fact he ‘ now has a good understanding with the defenders in front of me ’ . |