Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an " add " instruction is being executed , the hardware of the computer examines the tag fields of the two operands , and selects the correct form of " add " , whether the fixed-point , short or long floating-point , decimal digit string , or some other data-type . |
| 2 | They are completely incompatible with the defence policies of NATO , and can not be reconciled with Labour 's policy as currently declared . |
| 3 | In the military sphere the measures which Kang suggested included the exchange of military personnel and information , the notification of significant troop movements and the establishment of a " hot-line " telecommunications link between the Defence Ministers of the two states . |
| 4 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 5 | It was agreed that the split " should not lead to the weakening " of " the defence interests of either of the republics " . |
| 6 | It was agreed that the split " should not lead to the weakening " of " the defence interests of either of the republics " . |
| 7 | And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . |
| 8 | Representatives of the defence industries of the four countries also lobbied for the continuation of the project . |
| 9 | In many plants , secondary compounds are concentrated in the trichomes and , for example , a ketone is thus concentrated in the hairs of tomato plants , but that same ketone has been found in the defence secretions of termites and caterpillars . |
| 10 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
| 11 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
| 12 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 13 | The wound response of tomato plants can be inhibited by salicylic acid and agents like fusicoccin that affect ion transport , and wounding by heat or physical injury produces electrical activity that has similarities to the epithelial conduction system used to transmit a stimulus in the defence responses of some lower animals . |
| 14 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 15 | Installed at San Salvatore , high above the Mediterranean near Portofino , the defence mechanisms of the four Englishwomen melt away . |
| 16 | Similarly , in the secondary process the investment of energy is canalized by rules , by obstacles , that the defence mechanisms of the ego construct , which subordinate the possibility of energy discharge to the ‘ transformation of the relationship between the psychic apparatus and the external world ’ ( Lyotard 1984 , p. 58 ; Dews 1984 ) . |
| 17 | There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country . |
| 18 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
| 19 | Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Whether or not a ‘ flypaper ’ effect is prevalent depends on the relative size of the price and the income elasticities of demand . |
| 21 | The income resources of the elderly |
| 22 | The income statements of the two firms are as follows : |
| 23 | The circumstances of this case are unusual because of the oil boom , and the following economic crisis of the 1980s , which has now eroded the income gains of those small farmers , has demonstrated the inability of the economy to sustain the development that had taken place . |
| 24 | International comparative studies of the income levels of specific social groups such as the elderly remain rare because of the difficulties involved in making comparisons between societies with widely differing responses to the issue of income maintenance in later life . |
| 25 | Even if all rural houses are not prohibitively priced , they can be expensive relative to the income levels of local inhabitants , and this can be the key factor that determines whether an individual family can afford to purchase a home . |
| 26 | The above scenario helps to explain the part played by access to occupational pension scheme benefits in determining the income levels of the elderly women whose financial circumstances were studied between 1959 and 1965 . |
| 27 | This means , in turn , that divorce can have a devastating effect on the income prospects of , mainly , older women ( Joshi and Davies , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | Second , it sets arbitrary amounts on the income needs of people of different ages and may underestimate the needs of children by comparison with adults ( Berthoud 1985 ) . |
| 29 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 30 | Systematic multielement regional geochemical mapping of the United Kingdom landmass by the BGS 's Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has from the outset in 1968 provided regional data on the uranium levels of stream waters and on pH and conductivity , subsequently augmented by measurements of fluoride content and alkalinity . |