Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He might also , quite obviously , direct the activities of bishops throughout the Church , translate them and control them .
2 It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate .
3 In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system .
4 The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic .
5 Intragastric administration of indomethacin did not affect the activities of SOD in the gastric mucosa at three or six hours after indomethacin .
6 Up to a point the tsarist police could control the activities of intellectuals within the confines of the empire , but silencing Herzen was beyond their powers .
7 I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years .
8 This indicated that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type substance in the gut and its oral administration test reflects the sum of the activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colon .
9 Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression .
10 The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war .
11 At one extreme Diplock LJ stated in Wooldridge v Sumner : " The defence of volenti in the absence of express contract , has no application to negligence simpliciter where the duty of care is based solely on proximity or " " neighbourship " " in the Atkinian sense . "
12 This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing .
13 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) .
14 In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world .
15 In the light of the response of teachers to the chaos of the assessment process devised by DENI — and its agencies — it can hardly be them !
16 A significant clinical limitation of alumina is the response of tissues to the presence of the ceramic .
17 Faced with this level of uncertainty , the response of employers within the sector has been to invest as much of their profits as possible in land or housing , if possible in their home area or within the city , if tenure is reasonably secure .
18 This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided .
19 The response of schools to the need to manage things for themselves has partly been linked with their development as organizations separate from central government and local authorities and partly with the preservation of teacher freedom .
20 All things considered the response of people to the proposed scheme can hardly be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ .
21 The teacher 's slap , and his colleagues ' support , served notice that women , too , would in future be subject to the disciplines of institutions outside the family , that fathers and husbands would have to share their authority over women .
22 Every day , he passed between the cliff-top fort and the captured castle at its foot , clearing the way not just for the King 's casual occupation , but to repair the defences of Kyrenia against the corsair , or Carlotta , or the Turk .
23 I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries .
24 The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult .
25 the addition of space between the letters of words to increase the line-length to a required width or to improve the appearance of a line .
26 This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite .
27 Curiously , the addition of fungicides to the glue is not very effective .
28 The addition of Murav'ev to the Secret Committee , which took place on the recommendation of Orlov immediately after his appointment as minister , was probably the low point of the emancipation story .
29 D-arginine ( 5×10 - 4 M ) had no effect upon this inhibition but it was reversed by the addition of L-arginine at the same concentration ( fig 5 ) .
30 In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum .
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