Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lack of attention is surprising given the widespread use of graphs revealed in the study , sponsored by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , of the corporate annual reports of 240 large UK companies that we have recently completed . |
| 2 | The potential of graphs to communicate effectively is consequently being undermined . |
| 3 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 4 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 5 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 6 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 7 | The hydrogen atom loses its electron , becomes positively charged and is attracted to the negatively charged electrode , called the cathode ; the oxygen gains an electron and migrates to the positive electrode , the anode , this migration of ions forming the current . |
| 8 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 9 | Salts can be described as a collection of ions held together by their mutual electrostatic attraction . |
| 10 | The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series . |
| 11 | On the face of the facts given , the inspector of taxes does appear to be ‘ turning a text into a pretext ’ . |
| 12 | In addition to the poll tax , there was a complex system of taxes based on land and on crops , some paid in kind , which could amount to as much as 25 per cent of the harvest . |
| 13 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 14 | The inspector of taxes wished to hold a meeting with my clients who were reluctant to attend the Tax Office for this purpose . |
| 15 | Professor David Pearce , a University College London economist and author of the Pearce report on the use of taxes to control pollution , is also to remain an adviser . |
| 16 | Second , some issues arise in connection with the tax structure , i.e. of the kinds of taxes imposed . |
| 17 | Kazakhstan conceded the issue of federal taxation in June , however , and on July 25 the Russian Federation agreed that a fixed percentage of taxes raised from enterprises by the RSFSR government ( rather than a predetermined amount as earlier demanded ) would go to the union budget . |
| 18 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 19 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 20 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 21 | The inspector of taxes has failed to distinguish between the concepts of tax relief allowable on interest paid to purchase a private residence — and the operation of MIRAS . |
| 22 | Over the last century , the number of taxes has mushroomed and the system is now so complex that few understand it fully . |
| 23 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 24 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 25 | Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable . |
| 26 | However , he went on to hold that the claim failed on another ground , viz. , that as a general rule there will , as a matter of policy , be no recovery of taxes paid pursuant to legislation which is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid . |
| 27 | With the simple voting framework , the voter has to form a judgement about the trade-offs between different objectives , for example , the level of taxes needed to finance a proposed spending programme . |
| 28 | Tax reform had been low on the political agenda before 1965 , with the basic structure of taxes remaining unchanged for decades . |
| 29 | Provided that in the limit the last term tends to zero ( as with and , then the present value of taxes equals the initial bond issue . |
| 30 | Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue . |