Example sentences of "[noun] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the first to be beaten up and hospitalized was Marian Munteanu , the President of the League of Students and one of the leaders of the University Square protest . |
| 32 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 33 | Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse . |
| 34 | He was also president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland in 1973–4 . |
| 35 | Three years later he became President of the College of Physicians and in 1727 Physician-General to the Army . |
| 36 | president of the College of Physicians , she defended herself against accusations of medical malpractice made by ‘ a malicious informant ’ . |
| 37 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 38 | Expenditure incurred on tangible fixed assets is directed mainly towards enhancement of the range of services offered by the Group , improving communications and increasing emphasis on health and safety in the workplace . |
| 39 | The policy adopted was ‘ open enrolment ’ — described by the government as ‘ a significant enhancement of the ability of parents to secure the admission of their children to the school they prefer ’ . |
| 40 | Glaringly absent from yesterday 's speech were any mention of the balance of payments , the recent excitement on the money markets , exchange rate policy or the European Monetary System . |
| 41 | Born Yevonde Cumbers in Streatham Common , London , in 1893 , she had a fairly conventional start to her career , serving an apprenticeship to the society photographer Lallie Charles , but by the early Twenties had build up a substantial portrait practice of her own and was attracting much attention as an eloquent advocate of the cause of women 's photography . |
| 42 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 43 | Characteristics of groups , like the characteristics of species , are thus considered by most theorists today to be the result of the selection of genes as they manifest themselves in the individuals comprising populations ( G. C. Williams 1966 ; Lewontin 1970 ; E. O. Wilson 1975 ) . |
| 44 | In order to bring the action within the US courts the dependants sued McDonnell Douglas in the Californian courts for significant damages , citing the inadequate view afforded to the pilots as a result of the configuration of windows and pillars between windows in the cockpit . |
| 45 | As a result of the transfer of surpluses from , and votes of , DUP and Unionist candidates VUPP gained one more seat than their single quota of first preference votes would suggest . |
| 46 | It is only necessary that as a result of the transfer of assets income becomes payable to a person who is domiciled or resident outside the United Kingdom . |
| 47 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 48 | The issue remains an irritant to many unwilling recipients , but could be left as a relatively harmless result of the publication of names and addresses , were it not for more disquieting developments . |
| 49 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 50 | A further result of the identification of women with unskilled workers was that they were ideal recruits when the de-skilling of a trade was already happening because of technological change . |
| 51 | Masahiro Dozen announced his resignation after Daiwa reported a loss of 72,000 million yen as a result of the settlement of claims against the company by five major clients . |
| 52 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 53 | Ruttan ( 1982 ) also distinguishes from productivity-enhancing research another type called ‘ maintenance research ’ defined as ‘ the research needed to prevent yield decline as a result of the evolution of pests and pathogens , the decline in soil fertility and structure , and other factors ’ . |
| 54 | Specific topics being addressed are those which have been suggested as a possible legacy of the dispute , such as irreconcilable bitterness between former working and former striking miners and their families in a ‘ split ’ community ; permanent disaffection from the police and from the institutions of legal and political authority as a whole as a result of experiences within striking communities ; and changing family relationships as a result of the mobilization of women during the dispute . |
| 55 | However , a presidential spokesman said that between 30,000 and 50,000 people would lose their jobs as a result of the abolition of ministries . |
| 56 | Pro-democracy campaigners claimed that the poor turnout was also the result of the alienation of voters who rejected the political system which had been imposed on them . |
| 57 | Most of the fall came as a result of the release of provisions in the merchant banking and securities division . |
| 58 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 59 | It is likely that inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate ( InsP 3 ) generated as the result of the activation of mGluRs , as well as the Ca 2+ which permeates through NMDA channels , is involved in releasing Ca 2+ from intracellular stores . |
| 60 | The Zimbabwe Grain Marketing Board said that 2,000,000 tonnes of maize would need to be imported from outside Africa as a result of the failure of crops throughout the country . |