Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was Dromore Workhouse , a passenger told me , built for the relief of victims of the Potato Famine . |
| 4 | Figure 4.4 shows a simplified flow diagram for the manufacture of batches of caustic soda , NaOH , from sodium carbonate by the bossage process . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 14 | This provides for the survival of causes of action vested in the deceased for the benefit of his estate . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A turbulent ‘ eddy ’ is a rather ill-defined concept , but a very useful one for the development of descriptions of turbulence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Among the central topics under examination are the Islamic theory of the state ; and the relevance of social groupings for the shaping of conceptions of the Muslim state . |
| 24 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 25 | Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works impartially for the release of prisoners of conscience : men , women and children detained anywhere for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , religion or language , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence . |
| 26 | WHILE many people are aware of Amnesty International , and its work for the release of prisoners of conscience , not as many know of its work for the rights of the children . |
| 27 | Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works impartially for the release of prisoners of conscience : men , women and children detained anywhere for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , religion or language , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence . |
| 28 | An order for the payment of costs of proceedings by one party to another party is always a discretionary order : section 51 of the Act of 1981 . |
| 29 | Banks were able to bid aggressively for wholesale deposits and to take in funds in return for the issue of certificates of deposit . |
| 30 | The official report on the 1977 survey , for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , concluded from analysis of the awareness and experience of some 2,500 shoppers that ‘ the ability to use percentage rates to calculate dollar finance charges remains relatively uncommon , . |