Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ protecting persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ’ ; |
| 32 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 33 | A student who offered shopowners immunity from the activities of ragweek in return for donations to charity was held by the trial judge not to have used menaces . |
| 34 | Wilson dealt with the conflicts that arose in Orkney due to the activities of planners . |
| 35 | The decision , regarded as inevitable due to the activities of Loop offshoots The Hair And Skin Trading Company and Main , puts paid to speculation that the band would reunite for a US tour . |
| 36 | Of prime importance for the history of Roman attitudes to Greek art are the activities of Paullus ' successors , Quintus Caecilius Metellus ( later named Macedonicus for his victories in Macedonia ) and Lucius Mummius . |
| 37 | He might also , quite obviously , direct the activities of bishops throughout the Church , translate them and control them . |
| 38 | The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism . |
| 39 | The belief that there is no real alternative is being challenged by the activities of teachers working in consultative/support roles and by an increasing body of research . |
| 40 | A Supreme Court judge , Justice Louis Harms , on Nov. 13 published his report into the activities of Army and police counterinsurgency units . |
| 41 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 42 | We have referred to the activities of building societies on numerous occasions already . |
| 43 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 44 | Restrictions were also lifted on the activities of US non-governmental and non-profit organizations carrying out humanitarian work in Vietnam . |
| 45 | Both the August initiatives were intended to reduce anti-US feeling which in recent weeks had increased following the activities of US military and anti-drug personnel in the country . |
| 46 | Anxiety over global environmental change has perhaps made us more aware of the converse idea : that the activities of microbes largely determine the state of the biosphere , and in particular the evolution of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 47 | He or she controls and co-ordinates the activities of committees and planning boards , oversees the working of academic departments and liaises with outside bodies . |
| 48 | It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate . |
| 49 | But the growth in knowledge enabled by the activities of reading , meditation and contemplative prayer grows in time ; it engages with the inexhaustible wisdom of God . |
| 50 | KGB operatives in Eastern Europe : believed not only to monitor , but direct , the activities of East European counter-intelligence and security personnel operating within the WTO armed forces . |
| 51 | For one of the easier semantic slides from ‘ free Zuwayi ’ was toward ‘ privileged Zuwayi ’ ( or Maghrabi ) : free Zuwaya , when they were able , would control the activities of others . |
| 52 | Managers in a surveying practice must therefore master the art of communication and use its every facet in organising , controlling and reviewing the activities of others . |
| 53 | Secondly , scientific and technological advances allowing exploitation and exploration of areas not previously susceptible to such activities , and the corresponding increased capacity to exhaust the world 's resources or to monopolise a market , mean that even those States that lack the resources to take advantage themselves are still directly concerned in the activities of others . |
| 54 | Thus those with the power to organize and coordinate the activities of others will have a higher social status than those they direct . |
| 55 | The right to organize and direct the activities of others is built into the role of leader-manager . |
| 56 | In section 2.3.2 we made a distinction which is often made between the activities of banks or , more strictly , ‘ institutions comprising the monetary sector ’ and the activities of NBFIs . |
| 57 | Firstly , we now recognise that it is possible , in certain circumstances , for the activities of NBFIs to cause changes in the size of the money stock . |
| 58 | On the activities of NBFIs by far the most authoritative and recent account is Goacher and Gurwen ( 1987 ) . |
| 59 | In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system . |
| 60 | The activities of Whips are a mystery to most people outside Parliament but it is known that they do occasionally cajole , threaten and even bully MPs who might not toe the party line . |