Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document also proposed the defence of state enterprises , the expulsion of " Yankee troops " and the rejection of government anti-drug plans to eradicate traditional coca leaf production , which threatened the livelihood of an estimated 60,000 peasant farmers . |
| 2 | These include caste systems , genetics and the defence of home territories . |
| 3 | They showed the Foreign Office keen to encourage talks between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti rulers over their border dispute — but also adamant that Kuwait was the one area in the Gulf where the defence of oil supplies would justify the use of force . |
| 4 | In other words rigidities and frictions in the response of money wages and prices to a state of general excess supply provide a practical justification for demand management policies . |
| 5 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 6 | The response of cattle owners was to increase the total numbers in their herd , rather than to maintain a smaller herd with lower mortality levels . |
| 7 | The response of labour unions was also lukewarm since the changes were seen as limiting their scope for bestowing benefits on their members . |
| 8 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 9 | Its major point of weakness , however , is that what determines the incomes of farmers — the prices they receive for their produce — does not determine the income of farm workers , which is derived from the sale of their labour . |
| 10 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 11 | The delegation subsequently expressed its dissatisfaction with the inability of State ministers and officials to respond fully to various queries raised by its members . |
| 12 | Attempts to introduce the system in Japanese plants overseas have frequently been thwarted by the inability of component suppliers to meet quality and timing schedules . |
| 13 | A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish . |
| 14 | The addition of Navy personnel to the Simonova 's regular complement had clearly brought about a certain amount of re-allocation of accommodation . |
| 15 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 16 | This course continues and extends the S1 and S2 courses with the addition of computer systems theory and programming . |
| 17 | When a similar shift is caused by the addition of bile salts or free fatty acids to bile the result is a shortening of the nucleation time . |
| 18 | NORTHERN FOODS has passed £2bn sales thanks to the addition of Express Dairies and Eden Vale , which also helped a healthy rise in profits to £153.2m from £126.3m . |
| 19 | In the light of this , the addition of depreciation charges to water revenue accounts is justified . |
| 20 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Parliamentary proceedings , second thoughts about the drafting , and the addition of makeweight provisions , added to and varied the original core as the Bill progressed . |
| 22 | Strengthening and repair operations have been carried out on the bridge from time to time , including the addition of steel cables to assist the original chains . |
| 23 | The planting medium should have its nutrients replenished by the addition of clay granules or sun-dried clay balls to the base of the roots . |
| 24 | Gresham Telecomputing has increased the scope of its Dataserve range of ICL communications products with the addition of client versions of the product for VME , VMS and Unix-based systems , with a Windows version following later in the year . |
| 25 | Thus the first two years of this course are as described in previous course with the addition of language units appropriate to the European university chosen . |
| 26 | The addition of Macintosh applications is also likely to make the IBM 's RISC System/6000 a likely upgrade path for Macintosh users looking for more powerful servers than Apple can offer . |
| 27 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 28 | The network links the majority of government sites , from defence installations to local tax offices . |
| 29 | The majority of government bonds , those described in Table 3.2 as " conventional " , are of fixed nominal value and pay a fixed amount ( the coupon ) each year , usually in two instalments . |
| 30 | The only factor undermining this powerful position is said to be the incompetence of the majority of government employees . |