Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page considers : ‘ There was little enthusiasm for the legislation among Members of Parliament , and substantial opposition from local councillors ’ ( Page 1983:44 ) . |
| 2 | The size of the dish or plate we use affects quantity as well , and this mainly accounts for the variation in quantities of breakfast cereals . |
| 3 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 4 | There is a vast array of both scientific and anecdotal evidence for the existence of states of being other than the physical , and there are various ways of understanding such states . |
| 5 | It was Dromore Workhouse , a passenger told me , built for the relief of victims of the Potato Famine . |
| 6 | Figure 4.4 shows a simplified flow diagram for the manufacture of batches of caustic soda , NaOH , from sodium carbonate by the bossage process . |
| 7 | A number of international organizations responded to calls made by the ANC for the deployment of teams of international observer to monitor township violence [ see p. 38850 ] . |
| 8 | A number have had responsibility for the operation of parts of the system of criminal justice , including former Home Office Ministers , retired senior civil servants and police officers , and chairmen of the Parole Board . |
| 9 | Durie was rushed into hospital for the operation within hours of the Tottenham party — minus Durie — returning from Wednesday night 's friendly against Lazio in Rome . |
| 10 | Paradoxical pain may well exist but is neither well documented nor common ; it does not account for the majority of cases of uncontrolled pain , and we are not aware of any evidence that it was an important factor in the care of the patient in the recent highly publicised court case . |
| 11 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 12 | There is continuing demand from all over the world for the expertise of members of the Development Administration Group in the University 's School of Public Policy . |
| 13 | These speculative balances are available for the purchase of types of wealth such as financial assets , since wealth held as money , although it has the advantage of being perfectly liquid , earns no rate of return . |
| 14 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 15 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 16 | Those Acts provided not for full representation of the peerage of Scotland in the new House , but for the election by peers of Scotland ( who were not also peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ) of 16 of their number to sit . |
| 17 | Secondly , the increase in world oil prices has been responsible , if only in part , for the increase in prices of many of the products of Western economies . |
| 18 | Petrol sales at the pumps have dropped by fifteen percent — is that bad news for the government in terms of revenue ? |
| 19 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 20 | This provides for the survival of causes of action vested in the deceased for the benefit of his estate . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal has intimated that such cases are appropriate cases for the grant of extensions of the time allowed for appealing ( Legal Aid Handbook , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 23 | An individual body is a large vehicle or ‘ survival machine ’ built by a gene cooperative , for the preservation of copies of each member of that cooperative . |
| 24 | This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation . |
| 25 | A turbulent ‘ eddy ’ is a rather ill-defined concept , but a very useful one for the development of descriptions of turbulence . |
| 26 | Those very features of the written word which encourage awareness of language may also encourage awareness of one 's own thinking and be relevant to the development of intellectual self-control , with incalculable consequences for the development of kinds of thinking which are characteristic of logic , mathematics and the sciences . |
| 27 | At another rally in Tirana on Aug. 31 , Hajdari called for the removal of supporters of the ruling Socialist Party of Albania ( SPA — formerly the Albanian Party of Labour — PLA ) , from key posts in the media , and for the dissolution of the secret police . |
| 28 | That strategy incorporates a review of the content of courses of initial teacher training ; the establishment of a committee for the accreditation of courses of teacher education ; an inquiry into the procedures for the external validation of courses in public sector higher education ; an inquiry into selection for teaching ; suggestions for regular staff appraisal of teachers , and the public reporting by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of their findings on visits to schools and colleges . |
| 29 | That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it . |
| 30 | While we see that more marriages succeed , although there so some of them might be just dragging , but er a , at least they do n't become a headache for the society as children of adult er parents or children with one parent , we do n't have that problem . |