Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [adv] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 2 | While these are the most important tools for the grouping together of coins , there are other subsidiary methods which can sometimes help to define groups of coins . |
| 3 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 4 | It also helps when the time comes to break off the affair , because you can talk about the money instead of feelings and love and messy , painful stuff like that . |
| 5 | The Crowther committee was set up to consider the education of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18 , and it was specifically asked to make recommendations about the place therein of exams below GCE level . |
| 6 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 7 | If attempts to establish the continuity of an office of Mufti in this early period appear to break down , however , there can be no doubt either on the one hand of the existence both of muftis and of scholars who acted as muftis in individual instances or , on the other , of the importance of as an instrument of government . |
| 8 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 9 | And there was that strange smell again which Dot recognized from the darkness of the night before of things dying and rotting and growing again . |
| 10 | Greenpeace and other environmental organizations criticize them because of the risk both of accidents and the possibility of nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists or governments intent on developing nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | The epic poet ‘ was aware neither of the falling of leaves in autumn nor of the passing away of generations . |
| 12 | I am delighted to report that despite the increase both of magpies and crows last year , I have observed over the winter feeding period the usual mixture of birds . |
| 13 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 14 | If it is associated with the supply only of services , then section 14 ( see below ) deals with that . |
| 15 | And a photo in the press today of sisters , Charlotte , five and Amy , three . |
| 16 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 17 | This dominance shows , Darwin reasons , that older characters are more permanent , more deeply embedded in the hereditary constitution and so more resistant to the influence either of mates in crossing or of changing external conditions . |
| 18 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 19 | This means that the ribber only knits every two rows , so the knitting has a single colour on the back instead of stripes . |
| 20 | An attempt was made to teach me Welsh , mostly by the reading aloud of stories from The Mabinogion — in English . |
| 21 | For centuries the argument continued without any real evidence on either side , but in 1803 the British chemist and physicist , John Dalton , pointed out that the fact that chemical compounds always combined in certain proportions could be explained by the grouping together of atoms to form units called molecules . |
| 22 | The conventions of west-European international relations were now fully accepted in Russia , a process helped forward by the appearance there of translations of western works on international law and diplomacy . |