Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The railway enthusiasts have spent six months and £5,000 repairing the Peckett Locomotive in time for the start of the steam weekends . |
| 62 | DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Society members have spent six months and £5,000 repairing the Peckett Locomotive in time for the start of the steam weekends . |
| 63 | The gentle movements and hissing of the steam locomotives is enhanced by the architectural surroundings and the everyday clutter of porters ' barrows , luggage , fire buckets and all . |
| 64 | A journey on one of the steam trains is certainly not to be missed ! |
| 65 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 66 | For instance , a quick examination of the subclasses of the architecture schedules in Dewey shows that the subdivisions are not all of the same type . |
| 67 | Despite the ministrations of the Mine Surgeon poor Sarah died on the 13 June , and after this date none of the Duke girls appear to have worked on the mine again . |
| 68 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 69 | It also demands interviewers , of the calibre not perhaps of Brian Walden or Sir Robin Day but , say , of the Dimbleby brothers . |
| 70 | You free yourself of the hold others had over you when you allowed them this control over your life . |
| 71 | The principal other addresses were given by the eminent sons of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet : the Rev Thomas Gallaudet ( 1822–1902 ) , founder of the first American Church for the Deaf in New York and co-founder of the Gallaudet Homes for the Aged Deaf and Dumb ; and Edward Miner Gallaudet ( 1837–1917 ) , founder president and first head of Gallaudet College . |
| 72 | Some emphasise fibrosis as the dominant feature , but Goulston and McGovern indicate that contraction and hypertrophy of the muscularis mucosae are the essential features of stricture formation , and they suggest that these lesions are reversible . |
| 73 | Theodora took a couple of handfuls of the chicken pellets from the split bag in the hall and broadcast them over the gravel . |
| 74 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 75 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |
| 76 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 77 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 78 | Memories flickered in late August 1984 when Mrs Thatcher appointed Lord Young of Graffham , the former Chairman of the Manpower Services Commission , Minister-without-Portfolio with responsibility for ‘ enterprise ’ , with his own Enterprise Unit in the Cabinet Office . |
| 79 | The introduction of the National Curriculum , grant-maintained schools , open enrolment , and , earlier , the creation of the Manpower Services Commission ( later to become the Training Agency ) , are examples of central government seizing the initiative and significantly influencing the control and direction of education . |
| 80 | Robert Alcorn , a young sculptor/model-maker employed by the museum under the auspices of the Manpower Services Commission , has also produced resin models of prehistoric amphibians and reptiles ( including the rhyncosaur left ) . |
| 81 | Certainly , the pronouncements of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) emphasise a policy of provision for all , and have made specific arrangements for young people with special needs , including those with disabilities . |
| 82 | The establishment in 1974 of the Manpower Services Commission to run the public employment services and training services , formerly the responsibility of the Department of Employment , helped to some extent to revitalize the employment services for the disabled — for example , with special facilities for disabled people on the Training Opportunities Scheme run by MSC . |
| 83 | At the time of writing employment and training services are the responsibility of the Manpower Services Commission , a quasi autonomous public body which operates under the overall surveillance of the Department of Employment . |
| 84 | As there is never enough money to do all the BDA wants to do the Association was fortunate during the years 1982–1988 to be able to take advantage of the Manpower Services Commission 's scheme of placing unemployed people in short-term work for the benefit of the community . |
| 85 | The object of the teams was to co-ordinate the regional activities of the Manpower Services Commission ( now the Training Agency ) , the Department of Employment , the Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry , each of which was represented on the teams . |
| 86 | In the first edition of this book , we drew attention to the growing influence of the Manpower Services Commission , through its committee for Wales , over the provision of vocational training in the Principality including the initiation of such developments as the establishment of workshops like those in Clwyd , operating under the aegis of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education . |
| 87 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |
| 88 | The combination of these factors — increasing evidence from projects and reports about the educational needs of the adult unemployed , allied to increasing concern generally in education about the financial and ideological predominance of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) — led the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) to take some initiative . |
| 89 | Reference to training inevitably raises questions about the role of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) which has emerged as the major institutional vehicle for government schemes to cope with unemployment . |
| 90 | This paucity can , in turn , be related to the current institutional organisation of training , with its emphasis on employers and the huge range of interested organisations ( most of which are unaccountable ) ; and the centralisation of the control of training under the auspices of the Manpower Services Commission . |