Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 2 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 3 | However , the general principle of liability for the acts of others to which my hon. and learned Friend referred is not at all out of line with the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 4 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 5 | This implies that allowance must be made for the effects of changes in volume on price volatility when studying the volatility-maturity relationship . |
| 6 | Provision for the effects of transfers of employees and liabilities in respect of them under the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 and transfers of pension rights . |
| 7 | A case could be made for a deep psychic need in people the world over for the manifestations of monsters in varying horrific forms . |
| 8 | AMES began to win recognition as an organization , fighting for the interests of women from the exploited classes . |
| 9 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 10 | In on large study , the perinatal mortality risk increased by 20 per cent for the infants of smokers of less than 20 per day and by 35 per cent for smokers of 20 or more per day , compared with that of non-smokers. ( 5 ) The risk is greater in women who are poor , anaemic or have had several children . |
| 11 | For example , an increase in the demand for the services of carpenters in Scotland will drive up the wages of Scottish carpenters . |
| 12 | A new centre for the families of children with cancer has been opened by the Duchess of Kent . |
| 13 | He dwelt on the pondus sacerdotum : the burden of priests , and more particularly of bishops ( and especially of archbishops ) , was that they would be responsible for the souls of kings at the Last Judgement . |
| 14 | The profit positions for the writers of options at the point of expiry are the exact opposite of those for the purchasers . |
| 15 | Equally vociferous are the parent-oriented Campaign For One Parent Families and the Family Rights Group , whose arguments for the rights of parents in the face of state intervention have contributed to the pressure which produced the recent DHSS Code of Practice relating to access to children in care . |
| 16 | There are already important safeguards , which we have improved , for the rights of members in such schemes . |
| 17 | Unlike the Harter Act , however , unseaworthiness did not deprive the carrier of immunity for liability for the consequences of errors of navigation and management because COGSA required that the alleged unseaworthiness be the cause of the loss . |
| 18 | In 1907 , at the age of five , he was brought back to Scotland where he attended , first , the village school in Drymen , and , from 1908 to 1920 , the School for the Sons of Missionaries in London ( later Eltham College ) . |
| 19 | A sage grouse in full mating display will compete for the attentions of females on the lek . |
| 20 | The possibility remains , however , that the two approaches may be developed and reconciled , and a work by Reichman ( 1985 ) has achieved some success in compiling exhaustive formulae for the combinations of moves in conversation , and linking these to particular turn-taking mechanisms . |
| 21 | Some composers have written eucharistic settings in traditional vein providing for the needs of choirs with limited resources and expertise . |
| 22 | In this task , the production of materials catering for the needs of pupils of all abilities will be seen as a priority . |
| 23 | There are no powerful pressure groups to speak for them , for the same reason that no pressure groups speak for the needs of children with special needs already in ordinary schools . |
| 24 | entering values for the identifiers of sub-objects of the symbolic key defined in Figure 2 finds the record with symbolic key with new values for the designated sub-objects and current values for other components . |
| 25 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 26 | ( 8 ) For the expenses of members of boards as opposed to the expenses of the boards themselves , see 5.3 . |
| 27 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 28 | For the purposes of proceedings before the appeal court in The Hague , the respondent had ‘ elected domicile ’ at the office of its attorney in that city . |
| 29 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 30 | As stated above , the algebra now called classical concerned itself with ( polynomial ) equations , in particular with attempts to supply formulae for the roots of equations of degrees 3 , 4 , 5 , etc . |