Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkish maritime experts are warning of the dangers of an increase in oil and gas traffic through the crowded Bosphorus and are calling for a revision of the 1963 Montreux Convention , which guarantees freedom of navigation through the waterway . |
| 2 | The wave power device has received funding of £50,000 from the government for the research stage and £15,000 from the Highland Region 's development department for the prototype . |
| 3 | In April 1991 , Historic Scotland awarded historic buildings repair grant of £344,000 towards the cost of repairs to the historic shell of the A-listed building . |
| 4 | The paper offers glimmers of hope in the fight against the disease , through the promotion of better understanding . |
| 5 | Situated west of Carlisle on the shores of the Solway Firth , Silloth boasts superb views of the Lake District on one side , Scotland on the other . |
| 6 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 7 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 8 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1962 , in Appropinquante Concilio , Pope John promulgated rules of procedure for the Council ( confirmed with some additional points the following year by Paul VI 's Ordo Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani Secundi ) . |
| 10 | The graphics are mean and moody , allowing freedom of exploration with the minimum of mapping , the setting is realistic and gives a real feeling of being there , and the puzzles — you 'll be scratching you head for weeks . |
| 11 | In addition , using patterns of variation from the derived standard maturity-depth relationship ( Fig. 2 ) , it is possible to determine the amount of uplift of the Carboniferous section in particular areas . |
| 12 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 13 | A different approach would be to introduce Caldwell recklessness into the non-fatal offences of causing injury , with a view to labelling cases of endangerment in the same way as ‘ traditional ’ crimes . |
| 14 | Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’ |
| 15 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 16 | Accordingly the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for ‘ welfare ’ laid down by the Convention itself . |
| 17 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 18 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 19 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 20 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 21 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 22 | He became professor of anthropology in the University of London in 1927 , and taught there till he went on sabbatical leave to the United States in 1938 . |
| 23 | 2 Brush a large , doubled piece of foil with the rest of the sesame oil . |
| 24 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 25 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 26 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
| 27 | The file designer can measure the results of applying groups of updates to the file and make timing estimates based on the results of these tests . |
| 28 | The bishop followed up this preliminary scorching with a promise of eternal fire for the abbot of Glastonbury , upon whom he pronounced sentence of excommunication for the sin of damaging his property . |
| 29 | The USPCA say birds of prey in the province are also being shot or poisoned , and in the latest incident a buzzard starved to death after being maimed . |
| 30 | By recruiting a team of specialists able to relate experience of industry to the huge market opportunities , OSO has helped firms to capture the lion 's share of a UK market worth more than £10 billion a year and branch into exports of the technology spurred by developments in UK waters . |