Example sentences of "of the use of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to recognize that there are general consequences of the use of hierarchy as a coordinating mechanism — the subdivision of tasks , the pyramidal structure of organization , the nature of individual activity within such large organizations , the mechanisms of control and communication , the gradation of autonomy and so on — that apply both to public bureaucracies and to similarly hierarchical organizations in the private sector . |
| 2 | There is more widespread acceptance of the use of institutions in the later stages of life in the USA , Canada and Australia , and a considerable body of literature of the ways in which social workers can assist families and their elders to cope with the experience . |
| 3 | An example of the use of Codes of Practice is the report of the working party on the transplantation of organs , produced under the aegis of the Department of Health , which itself incorporates an earlier Code of Practice on the diagnosis of death , contained in the Report of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 5 | In 1755 storms destroyed the floodgates he had built , and renewed efforts to conquer the mere in the 1780s were crowned with permanent success only as a result of the use of steam-power in the following century . |
| 6 | The history of the use of herbs in food is naturally bound up with the history of food itself . |
| 7 | The same is true of the use of nationalization as a form of state intervention . |
| 8 | Another criticism of the use of GDFCF as an appropriate measure of productive investment concerns its failure to take any account of variations in the rate at which past investment is ‘ scrapped ’ . |
| 9 | This may have been the simple truth ; it may , alternatively , have been an instance of the use of delay by an intelligent but reluctant pleader . |
| 10 | Now that will need to be assessed by the council as a whole against it 's priorities with regard to the balancing of the use of capital against capital to prop up the revenue er expenditure of the council and conceivably er to deal with the problems arising er out of government er legislation and clearly we are going to have to make some decisions decisions about this . |
| 11 | The arsenic data subset for North Wales has been specially prepared , in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada , to enable an assessment to be made of the use of arsenic in water as a pathfinder for the detection of precious-metal mineralisation and of potential natural and anthropogenic environmental hazards . |
| 12 | Classic examples of the use of crops for industrial purposes rather than for food are : the production of ethanol for fuel from sugar cane in Brazil and from maize in the USA , and alcohol from potatoes . |
| 13 | The introduction and development of the use of motorcycles for health workers has proved to be very successful and has illustrated that the effectiveness of health work can be improved . |
| 14 | Once we start developing awareness of the use of space as part of the language of drama we are teaching theatre skills . |
| 15 | This will result in self-regulation of the use of water to the point where the health of the individual , the family and the public at large , will suffer . |
| 16 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 17 | Marcus and Reintjes carried out a detailed analysis of the use of CONIT by end-users with no previous experience of computerized information retrieval systems . |
| 18 | Smith and Frawley 's ( 1983 ) study of the use of conjunction in different genres of English suggests that some genres are generally ‘ more conjunctive ’ than others and that each genre has its own preferences for certain types of conjunction . |
| 19 | Irigaray 's analyses of the use of pronouns by hysterics and obsessives ( 1966:29–31 , 1967:55–68 ) reveal that whereas obsessives are unable to say ‘ me ’ because they are caught in a specular image of themselves in which there is no object , only an undifferentiated self ( Irigaray 's ‘ on ’ ) , hysterics are unable to say ‘ I ’ because they are unable to complete the trajectory through the other that would allow them access to full subjectivity . |
| 20 | A crude analysis of the use of doctors by the various socio-economic groups shows , for both males and females , either a similar or a lower use by the semi-skilled and unskilled groups than other groups . |
| 21 | This is not the only model to produce a close fit and in conclusion it seems that Lavery 's ( 1975 , 198 ) assessment of the use of models in forecasting recreation demand is still very relevant for the mid to late 1980s : |
| 22 | There was much criticism of the use of conscripts in such exercises as the Chernobyl clean-up operation and peacekeeping duties in areas of ethnic unrest . |
| 23 | A knowledge of the use of computers for research work is essential , and relevant experience gained in developing countries would be advantageous . |
| 24 | Where , in fact , are we to look for the major effects of the use of computers in humanities research ? |
| 25 | One of the more interesting aspects of the use of computers in education is their potential for involving children in problem-solving activities . |
| 26 | They also study simulations of the use of computers in applications such as shops , libraries , airlines , police records , etc . |
| 27 | This reflects the expansion of the use of computers from mass storage and number crunching to take in all forms of human communication . |
| 28 | This is unfortunate since one of the most important facets of the use of data for scientific research , corporate management or political debate is the communication of the information contained therein to those who will say that they are ‘ no good at figures ’ ! |
| 29 | But there is yet one further narrowing of the meaning of STYLE to consider , and this brings us on to more controversial ground , where different definitions of style involve conflicting views of the use of language in literature . |
| 30 | His career and mine have followed a similar course : he and I both followed ‘ Syllabus B ’ , and both ended up taking a deep interest in stylistics , the study of the use of language in literature . |