Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] individuals " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grant will support the transfer of the documents from individuals to a central collection , transcription of nearly illegible photocopies etc . |
| 2 | That general interest is neither an amalgam of , nor a compromise between , the interests of various specific groups , nor , as we saw in our discussion of unanimity , can it be equated , in Benthamite fashion , with the sum of the choices of individuals , acting as individuals . |
| 3 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 4 | The ‘ law of the constitution ’ was ‘ not the source but the consequence of the rights of individuals , as defined and enforced by the courts ’ . |
| 5 | That is , ‘ the constitution is the result of the ordinary law of the land ’ and that ‘ the law of the constitution … [ is ] not the source but the consequence of the rights of individuals ’ . |
| 6 | Our constitution does not contain any positive declaration of the rights of individuals in the form of a Bill of Rights . |
| 7 | On the other hand , we had learnt to recognise many of the chimps as individuals , and felt they had become firm friends . |
| 8 | computation of the expectations of individuals in society ; |
| 9 | The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals . |
| 10 | Arising out of the struggles of individuals , pressure-group politics encourages the development of an elite leadership who then negotiate with those who hold power . |
| 11 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 13 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |