Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The systematic study of information technology ( informatics ) is in its infancy and although there is general agreement that its potential for human progress is enormous , there is a good deal of pessimism as to the probability that those who control it will actively seek this end over their own private interests ( see Schiller , 1989 ; Journal of Communication , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’ |
| 3 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 4 | We are a major exporter of sheepmeat because of the quota . |
| 5 | The report concluded ‘ the capacity of the catapult is at present somewhat restricted , and other mechanical means of launching aircraft may have to be adopted by force of circumstance unless in the meantime aircraft designers find new means of lessening the length of take-off required ’ . |
| 6 | A known margin of error has no place in the administration of justice because of the value we place on doing justice in each individual case . |
| 7 | Firstly , with the accountant 's control model there tends to be time lags in the reporting of variances because of the nature of accounting systems , and secondly people , rather than the mechanical system , will have to be motivated to respond to variances , identify the cause of variance and take corrective action . |
| 8 | It is not inconceivable that a dedicated Marxist might be more interested in the long-term plan for the collapse of capitalism than in the survival of the corporation with which he works . |
| 9 | He is one of 35 local people who is considering suing the authority for loss of business because of the algae . |
| 10 | But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop . |
| 11 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 12 | First there were a series of general review papers sometimes based on inaugural or presidential addresses and these included a review of Man and the Natural Environment ( Wilkinson , 1963 ) ; advocacy of the need for study of anthropogeomorphology because of the earlier deficiency of studies of the form-creating activity of man and of the influence of man in natural phenomena ( Fels , 1965 ) ; and a revival of the title used by Sherlock for a review by Jennings ( 1966 ) in which he stressed that ‘ Man as a Geological Agent ’ is significant because studies of contemporary processes are nearly always heavily biased by anthropogenic effects . |
| 13 | One of my great regrets is that in the period immediately after liberation Burmese leaders and people generally seemed more interested in the political future of Burma than in the urgent task of reconstruction . |
| 14 | Hall was apt to be described as ‘ a tough-as-nails reporter with a marshmallow centre ’ , though in her ‘ Dear Unity ’ role , the emphasis was rather on the concoction of sympathy than on the cutting edge of insight . |
| 15 | North-West TUC spokesman Mike Graham said : ‘ We will be seeking the support of the European Parliament against the importers of coal because of the risk to the local environment . ’ |
| 16 | Arguably they are more apparent in the early books of Histories than in the later ones , where his commentary on events was constrained by political circumstances . |
| 17 | This will be the primary opportunity for the dissemination of information as to the running of the business and individual partners charged with specific managerial duties ( see below ) will report back to their colleagues on material developments . |
| 18 | Now some further words of wisdom as to the event itself . |
| 19 | He and the club 's solicitor and director , Maurice Watkins , sat either side of Edwards while on the flanks were placed two more lawyers , one representing Knighton 's take-over firm , MK Trafford Holdings , and the other , United 's merchant bank , Ansbacher . |
| 20 | This study is comparatively insensitive , however , for an assessment of the effect of prednisolone because of the one year interval between measurements , the small number of patients given corticosteroids , and the variable dose and duration of treatment . |
| 21 | In their emphasis on ritual and doctrine he sensed the same danger of a too purely objective conception of faith as in the rigid understanding of man , sin and atonement in which he had been brought up , and which , like Erskine and Campbell , he rejected . |
| 22 | They have much less to do with the demands of competitiveness than with the perversities of an industrial relations law whose imbalance was over-corrected during the 1980s . |
| 23 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 24 | ‘ Though the agreement be void by the Statute of Frauds as to the duration of the lease , it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respects , as to the rent , the time of year when the tenant is to quit , etc . |
| 25 | The thesis of the book was that democracy could not be safeguarded by attending to political institutions alone ; a culture had also to exist among the population which combined tradition and modernity , encouraging attitudes of loyalty and respect for the institutions of government while at the same time fostering a degree of political activism . |
| 26 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 27 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 28 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 29 | In another case there was an announcement of a General Election and in another case there was a concern that there may have been a change of government because of the opinion polls . |
| 30 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |