Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore follows that if car speeds can not be reduced , large residential areas can make gains in both their environmental traffic qualities and in their safety only by the dilution of the shared-space ideal by the provision of footpaths as pedestrian refuges . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the state collaborates with the private and voluntary sectors in the provision of services as the major co-ordinator or social care planner ( Barclay , 1982 ; Griffiths , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Unfortunately many people look on the shedding of tears as a sign of weakness . |
| 4 | Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system . |
| 5 | Some GPs remain ignorant of the existence of RSI as a bona-fide illness , or even hostile to the very idea . |
| 6 | Faith is very often placed either in institutional investors or in redefining the role of the board of directors as that of monitoring executive management . |
| 7 | Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board . |
| 8 | What is remarkable — and , I think , indefensible -about English libel trials is that the judge gives directions and guidance on the measure of damages as part and parcel of a single summing-up on the substantive issue . |
| 9 | But there is also another sense in which narrative is pertinent to the concept of undecidability , for the narrative of cybernetics as a field of study has this concept at its source . |
| 10 | The silence was broken by the clip-clop of hooves as a horse was led from its stable at the far side of the courtyard by an Indian . |
| 11 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 12 | In the article ‘ Illiterations ’ ( 1989a ; revised in 1991a:250–64 ) she demonstrates that the development of the Western conception of creativity in women and men is based on metaphors of reproduction which figure woman 's role as the material ‘ work ’ of child-bearing , and the experience of men as spontaneous spurts of genius . |
| 13 | Clients ranked the removal of symptoms as the number one aspect to be measured and no other group did . |
| 14 | Vologsky emerged from the mass of details as an almost archetypal defector . |
| 15 | Women are bracketed with minors and the code is basically concerned with the protection of women as the " weaker sex " . |
| 16 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 17 | Fishermen have long known of the association , and have traditionally used the presence of dolphins as a cue to finding schools of tuna . |
| 18 | The court will not evaluate the evidence and the finding of facts as an appeal court ; that is not the purpose of judicial review . |
| 19 | The availability of on-line facilities and displays allows the inspection of results as a simulation proceeds through time and gives the operator the opportunity to make decisions about progress at regular intervals . |
| 20 | A recasting of the whole system , away from the Beveridge-style insurance base to the payment of benefits as a right of citizenship , would enable age discrimination to be abolished through the removal of ‘ need ’ categories , deriving from ageist assumptions . |
| 21 | In the room , ‘ The Duchess of Chaulmes as a gardener in an allee ’ sold to Hazlitt , Gooden & Fox for £32,000 ( $49,856 ) , est. of £30–40,000 and ‘ The two Youthful de Neville Brothers ’ sold to New York dealers John & Paul Herring for £23,000 ( $35,834 ) against an estimate of £25–40,000 . |
| 22 | The belief that any particular event is determined , although the course of events as a whole is not , is problematic in itself . |
| 23 | It can not be overstressed that the purchaser and vendor should continue to consider the need for approvals and clearances throughout the course of negotiations as a change in the terms of the transaction may trigger the relevant legislation which regulates anti-competitive practices , mergers and the creation or expansion of monopolies . |
| 24 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 25 | The eating of dinners as a precondition to call to the Bar and the serving of pupillage as a precondition to practice at the Bar are the most obvious examples of socialization processes . |
| 26 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 27 | Schumpeter ( 1934 , 1939 ) explained the bunching of innovations which generated long-waves by the characteristics of entrepreneurs as industrial leaders . |
| 28 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 29 | Discuss the adequacy of assemblies as representative institutions . |
| 30 | In all the later , more organized phases of this type , at a time when the practice of art had been both distinguished and specialized , the institution of artists as part of the general social organization was still , as we have seen , normal . |