Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 2 | A draft Article allowing for amendment of treaties through subsequent practice of parties ( not third parties ) was rejected at Vienna as likely to promote uncertainty and instability in the performance of treaties . |
| 3 | On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) Sections 45 to 50 of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( which provide for payment of allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies ) shall apply with any necessary modifications to members of licensing boards as if the licensing boards were local authorities . |
| 5 | Students accepted on to the Diploma in Social Work will be considered for payment of fees by the Department of Health and Social Services only if they are allocated a quota place by the University . |
| 6 | Dave and Alice Fernie were walking like a-couple of children down the private side of Boundary Drive . |
| 7 | In recent times , however , physical threats have been dropped in favour of threats to our autonomy and money . |
| 8 | During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race . |
| 9 | The Group 's share of results of associated undertakings [ hereafter called associated companies ] is included in respect of companies in which the Group owns at least 20 per cent of the equity and over which it exerts significant influence . |
| 10 | It would seem logical that reassignment need only be considered in respect of positions for which the disabled employee is qualified . |
| 11 | The hypothesis was that firms were decentralizing in search of reserves of labour , and probably cheaper labour since wages were likely to be lower in areas with high unemployment ( 1976 , pp. 71 — 4 , 102 ) . |
| 12 | The justification for the possession offence is preventive , and there is little difficulty in holding that a person caught in possession of explosives with intent to endanger life has sufficiently crossed the threshold of criminality to justify punishment . |
| 13 | The two December marches by right-wing women were important public relations exercises in support of hardliners in the government . |
| 14 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 15 | In particular , if one compares the provisions relating to recovery of expenses in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 with those in Schedule 10 to the Act of 1985 it is clear that the whole scheme has been rewritten and amended in accordance with recommendations in the Law Commission Report on the Consolidation of the Housing Acts ( 1985 ) ( Law Com . |
| 16 | However , the search for methods of countering the national economic and military ‘ deterioration ’ after the Boer War was dominated by discussion of methods of improving the numbers and environment of the masses rather than of weeding out the unfit . |
| 17 | Many thanks to all who helped by way of contributions of goods , clothes or money , and special thanks to for their help and support . |
| 18 | This is the sum which the Lord Chancellor has indicated he has to find by way of savings in the legal aid scheme to meet Treasury targets in 1993/4 . |
| 19 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 20 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 21 | For two months every summer I was engaged to produce , and act as Master of Ceremonies for , the Home Gas Show , a weekly hour-length commercial programme . |
| 22 | In those circumstances , is he aware that his personal veto this morning on the urban plan to provide the shell of a building for a new studio to develop the industry in Caernarfon is seen as sabotage of prospects for that sector ? |
| 23 | Cover for deterioration of goods in deep freeze due to breakdown is now included free of charge up to a limit of £500 . |
| 24 | It 's still made with extract of Rosehips for extra goodness — but now without preservatives . |
| 25 | A father-of-two , Sergeant Bill Forth , 34 , died early yesterday after being stabbed in spite of efforts by a colleague and householders to save him . |
| 26 | They will not be named until publication of details in an academic journal , but the second one belongs with the lesser dung flies in the Sphaeroceridae family : ‘ a lovely little group , ’ he added . |
| 27 | On the ground floor of the plush Avenue Matignon headquarters , children sit absorbed in front of banks of Apple II computers . |
| 28 | However , the party 's newly elected deputies decided in favour of negotiations on the formation of a " grand coalition " , and these were opened on March 28 . |
| 29 | Duvalier , in which a prejudgment Mareva injunction was sought in aid of proceedings in the French courts . |
| 30 | The phrase " new licence " is defined in s.139(1) of the Act as meaning " a licence granted in respect of premises for which , at the time of the application for such grant , either no licence was in force or a licence different from the form of licence so granted was in force . |