Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution .
32 While many sites were upgraded by the addition of walls to the existing earthworks during the third and fourth centuries , new stone defences , with or without a contemporary bank , were also provided elsewhere , reflecting an extension of this important protective function .
33 The model then allows the addition of supplements to the base figures reflecting the assessed needs of individuals as defined in three key areas :
34 No planting is undertaken without the addition of compost in the planting hole , and this is followed by a surface mulch .
35 The addition of PSL to the ADCC assay culture with the serum samples from patients with ulcerative colitis enhanced % cytotoxicity .
36 I believe it 's a necessary reform , it 's a pity that the government have not taken the opportunity of change in the number of seats to bring some measure of proportionality to the British European elections .
37 Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ .
38 Chapter 4 provides the reasons for selecting Wales and the Auvergne as the major study areas and outlines the forms of agriculture in the two regions plus their nature conservation interests .
39 For instance , the forms of masculinity among the working class lay more emphasis on physical prowess , than those of the middle classes , where appropriate career is more important because masculine status is limited to being successful as husband-father breadwinner .
40 Through their ( respective ) straightforward colonial and convoluted imperialist trajectories the transnational practices of these two countries etched the forms of capitalism onto the global system .
41 Bourdieu scores some penetrating insights into legal practice in his consideration of the forms of autonomy of the juridical field .
42 The refusal of Erastus to derive the forms of bodies from the stars , or from anything within nature , pointed toward the empiricism of Bacon , for whom the only guides to knowledge were experience and the bible .
43 This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism .
44 The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed .
45 The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK .
46 The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something .
47 Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not .
48 The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question .
49 In the development of illness , therefore , a combination of external and internal factors is involved in the majority of cases in the production of the original imbalance , and this imbalance can occur on any level , depending on the main thrust of the external stress .
50 The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes .
51 This point can be proved in the majority of cases by the observations of the reporting officer .
52 As is the case in the majority of countries in the world , none of the countries in the Common Market ( with the exception of Southern Ireland ) recognizes venereology or genito-urinary medicine as a distinct specialty .
53 Within the bird world as a whole , these conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways , from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock , and from the resplendent tail feathers of the male widow-bird to the male pied flycatcher 's deceit .
54 The study found that the majority of takeovers in the EC outside the UK took place between non-listed or private companies and that , once agreement was reached between the parties , the barriers to takeovers were relatively low .
55 Consequently an artificial odorizer in the form of tetrahydrothiophen is added to North sea gas at the off shore terminals to achieve a ‘ distinctive smell ’ similar to the characteristic smell of coal-gas , as required by regulations made under s.26(1) of The Gas Act 1972 — the intention being no doubt to ensure that the majority of members of the public are able to detect a gas leak by its characteristic odour .
56 The majority of members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted to take industrial action over their workload .
57 Despite the rise in female employment , women today perform the majority of tasks within the household .
58 The majority of deliveries to the distribution centres are now also being despatched directly from the Slough filling lines without being stocked on site , with a new system of bar coding for ‘ full pallets ’ made up of single product lines .
59 I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland .
60 The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him .
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