Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 2 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 3 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 4 | No , it 's just a general enquiry , really , I I guess erm , erm , you you 've , through you Chairman , I I 've I 've heard about the involvement of officers , but I wonder what extent there is involvement of of of members in the the the process of preparing those reports and presentations of the report , is is there any member comment on that . |
| 5 | Derrida has sometimes been criticized for the generality of phrases such as ‘ the history of the West ’ or the claim that his work involves a critique of ‘ Western metaphysics ’ . |
| 6 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 8 | Section 7–4 examines the implications of the taxation of intermediate goods , allowing for the interdependence of industries ( via the input-output table ) , and describes a simple hierarchical model of production . |
| 9 | Extensive experience with decriminalisation in Holland shows that not only is there no accompanying surge in consumption — allowing for the inrush of addicts from more restrictive countries — but related crime falls when drugs are legalised . |
| 10 | For example , for Article 4 of the proposed directive to be implemented , Britain would have to introduce legislation allowing for the searching of premises to hold and seize items which another country says there are ‘ reasonable grounds for believing ’ have ‘ been unlawfully removed from its territory ’ . |
| 11 | By allowing for the distribution of results in random diversification , reductions in the overall risk of a randomly selected portfolio of shares may continue until the number of constituent securities reaches about thirty . |
| 12 | The total area of lesions was calculated as the sum of areas of individual lesion . |
| 13 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 14 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 15 | Death rates were also calculated as the number of deaths per recorded discharge ( case mortality or fatal spell ratio ) . |
| 16 | A variety of difficulties were foreseen about the ability of fundholders to continue making savings . |
| 17 | He discovered just how good during the three weeks that elapsed between the signing of contracts and the opening . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 19 | Of particular importance F is the pressure exerted by the gas ( especially CO 2 , SO 2 and water vapour ) which is formed through the release of volatiles and by the conversion of ground water to steam . |
| 20 | It is as though Lawrence was acknowledging that it is hard for human beings to say what they feel and that we often have to search for the form of words before we can find the words themselves . |
| 21 | However , it is still very difficult to search for the sequence of transformations which produced any given tree . |
| 22 | Anna turned , saw me waving , and began to amble through the line of cars with her nose n the air , looking entirely unconcerned about her own and everyone else 's safety . |
| 23 | The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up . |
| 24 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 25 | One reason often given for the dispersal of books is their appearance , and not their physical state — any shabbiness or indication that people might actually be reading them — but the visual appeal of their dust-jacket design . |
| 26 | The test of whether there are unobservable electrons can not be the test just given for the presence of dragons . |
| 27 | In a book written by educators for educators , a description of some of the causes of visual disability that can be encountered in schoolchildren is given for the guidance of teachers in their work with pupils . |
| 28 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 29 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 30 | Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet . |