Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 2 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 3 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 4 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 5 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 6 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 7 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 8 | Two alternative approaches have been made to the question of the patent protection of inventions which include a computer program . |
| 9 | Bearing this number in mind , you decide how many tokens your child will have to pay for a list ( something like a menu ) of rewards you have constructed , such as choosing a favourite pudding , staying up later than usual , a box of crayons or a special outing . |
| 10 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 11 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 12 | If the object is to determine whether a puritan spirituality was conducive to scientific activity , it would surely be necessary to take into account the far larger body of puritans who were not so enthralled by the book of nature . |
| 13 | The law , similar to one already introduced in Estonia , has angered many thousands of Russians who have moved into the republic in recent years . |
| 14 | In Paris during the war , ‘ La Rotonde was full of Russians who told fortunes , necromancers , palmists and spiritualists ’ , and Modigliani was extremely susceptible to the mood of mysticism . |
| 15 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 16 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 17 | Some things seemed too intimate to share , and she would have to speak of secrets which were not her own . |
| 18 | He is in particular concerned to rebut the argument of anti-Darwinists who claim that if mutations are merely ‘ random ’ they can not be biased towards improvement . |
| 19 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 20 | Governors of states whose ruling political parties are in opposition to the Federal Government have announced plans to start their own channels . |
| 21 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 22 | The area that is modern France displayed within its boundaries a great variation on the Romanesque architectural theme , since it was not one nation but a number of states whose buildings were influenced by climate , materials and purpose . |
| 23 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 24 | ‘ Security of the rear ’ in peace and war now embraces , in addition to the Soviet Union , a number of states which , however limited in sovereignty , are manifestly foreign . |
| 25 | He imagines the sequence of states which he will have to construct on the way to supper . |
| 26 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |
| 27 | The Soviet aversion to this multilateral arrangement and the apparent Soviet-preference to deal bilaterally with Vietnam , Laos and Kampuchea reflects the Soviet opposition to the creation of blocs outside Soviet control , even if the blocs are constituted of states they accept as ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 28 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
| 29 | So it was with Jesus : he scandalized people by the company he kept , by the overturning of values which had become the cement of his society but which he saw as being barriers for people . |
| 30 | Hands-on , value-driven : management is about the implementation of values which are explicit and form the basis for action . |