Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Discrimination learning is especially important for nursing practice as nurses are constantly faced with distinguishing between one set of conditions and another in the form of signs and symptoms , in the form of differences in kinds of equipment and their use , and in the form of differences in patients ' problems and needs . |
| 32 | There are extraordinary disparities between one area of the country and another in the commitment of funds to mental health services from local authorities and health authorities . |
| 33 | He relates this to the recency of developments and : |
| 34 | Three to four hundred Indians , most of them Catholics , now live like this on the scatter of islands . |
| 35 | There was an electric blower on the dressing table , another on the chest of drawers , two or three bar fires familiar from nursery days ; the fumes from three ancient paraffin stoves hovered in such air as was left . |
| 36 | But when , as I fear , you have lost your innocence and added another to the number of fools he has ruined , I can not help showing my displeasure to you . |
| 37 | He could add another to the list of places where Riddle might be expected to take off his jacket and tie and relax . |
| 38 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 39 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 40 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 41 | Functionalists fail to acknowledge that social institutions do not operate ‘ magically ’ in the interests of all but frequently work to the benefit of some at the expense of others . |
| 42 | Mr Gordon added : ‘ Quotas were never intended to benefit some at the expense of others . |
| 43 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 44 | You can generally tell this by the sort of questions you are asked ; |
| 45 | Multiplying this by the number of pages is enough to show a rough total , which should tally adequately with tutors ' estimates and impressions ( since they wo n't count the individual words either ) . |
| 46 | Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently . |
| 47 | For the initial tests trace statements were inserted to obtain the pixel counts for each of the range of exposures used to compute the two bounds . |
| 48 | The epic poet ‘ was aware neither of the falling of leaves in autumn nor of the passing away of generations . |
| 49 | The search for details of buildings now gone is as fascinating as that of the discovery of features of those that remain . |
| 50 | There were , of course , numerous forms and methods in which this ‘ law ’ expressed itself , but the most characteristic aspect was that of the transfer of resources to the socialist sector from the private commodity sector , and this is the process that — according to Preobrazhensky — imposes itself upon the socialist sector . |
| 51 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 52 | This naturally leads to another issue — that of the independence of children within their families . |
| 53 | The third element in the catalogue of community care problems is that of the provision of services itself . |
| 54 | The second barrier is that of the accessibility of lawyers . |
| 55 | The decision , which upheld that of the Chamber of Deputies in August [ see p. 38387 ] , was subject to ratification by the Attorney General 's Office , and meant that García could now be tried as an ordinary civilian on charges of " illicit personal enrichment " over 14 years in public office . |
| 56 | Therefore a more puzzling question is that of the history of cells which in these patients revert from CD45R0 to RA phenotype . |
| 57 | An allied but unresearched question is that of the extent of parents moving house within an area towards a popular school . |
| 58 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one statistic that needs to be found is that of the number of Londoners who would lose if the upper earnings limit on national insurance contributions were to be removed ? |
| 59 | The predominance of a small minority of cases is further illustrated if we use two further measures of the extent of the coverage in addition to the gross number of reports , that of the number of days and the number of pages in which each rape case is featured . |
| 60 | But the demands of modern approaches to the teaching of the subject , as well as the influence of research , have tended to move the writing of history away from narrative towards that of the study of themes . |