Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others .
2 As with every crisis of this magnitude there are opportunities for advancement or retrenchment ; for liberating the human spirit , and removing gross inequalities , or for the reinforcement of injustices and an extension of inequalities .
3 On that severe view no Socialist could support the promotion of producers ' or workers ' , or industrial co-operatives , call them what you will , if they are described as organisations for the manufacture of goods or for the provision of services , and wholly or very largely owned by and ultimately controlled by those working in them .
4 In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs .
5 This aspect of communication is obviously what written language is supremely good at , whether for the benefit of the individual in remembering the private paraphernalia of daily life , or for the benefit of nations in establishing constitutions , laws and treaties with other nations .
6 Secondly , unlike general insurance , the motivation behind many life-related policies is essentially a desire to save for the future , either for one 's own benefit or for the benefit of dependants .
7 This feature is often used for headings or for the production of notices , posters and flyers .
8 Proceedings for the recovery of land , for foreclosure or redemption of a mortgage , for enforcing a charge or lien on land ( other than a charging order made under the Charging Orders Act 1979 ) , or for the recovery of moneys secured by a mortgage or charge on land , must be started in the court where the land or part of it is situated ( Ord 4 , r 3 ) .
9 Sooner or later , one must plump for either the primacy of micro-processes in socio-logical explanation , or for the primacy of macro-processes as in notions of ‘ encapsulation ’ , 'centre and periphery' , ‘ dominance and dependency ’ , Marxist theory , and the like .
10 These can be useful for the company as the money that would have gone into the pension fund can be used to boost profitability ( particularly useful during a takeover bid ) , or for the financing of projects .
11 These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses .
12 1.33 Similarly , even before proceedings are commenced application can be made to the court under s33(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 or s52(1) of the County Courts Act 1984 for an order for the inspection , photographing , custody or detention of property or for the taking of samples .
13 The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year .
14 Subject indexing is generally carried out by those familiar with the discipline definitions , for reasons connected with the publication of classified bibliographies , or for the arrangement of documents in libraries , information centres , catalogues and databases .
15 Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported .
16 Revolutionary ideas in science , such as the idea of evolution by natural selection ; quantum physics itself ; plate tectonics , or the genetic code , can occur through the action of single , high-influence ideas , or through the summation of numbers of small , accretionary pieces of evidence .
17 Genetic dissection of the immune system in this way , or through the use of mutants with different specific defects of immune function , could prove valuable in studying the influence of individual genes in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease .
18 Thirdly , the family constitutes a major determinant of consumer behaviour , whether in terms of its influence on the individual , direct family purchasing , or through the movement of individuals across the family life cycle .
19 Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls .
20 Younger people are more likely to identify health as being physically active or as the absence of symptoms ( i.e. never being ill ) than older people .
21 This problem appears in a more or less acute form in many countries whose borders were arbitrarily set by colonial rulers or as the outcome of wars .
22 The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 .
23 The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties .
24 The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such .
25 Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing .
26 Medical microbiology is concerned with the interactions between micro-organisms and their hosts ; for example , the explanations in biological and molecular terms of infectious processes and resultant host tissue damage , or of the action of antibiotics and antiviral agents , and the emergence of resistant organisms .
27 Those at the top , on or near the board of directors , may exercise strategic control over investment and planning of markets and products .
28 Microwaves create very short , high energy radio-waves which agitate and heat water molecules on or near the surface of foods .
29 If we have no evidence or proof of a ‘ real ’ distinction of myth from history , as opposed to an ideological claim or commitment to it , either in society as a whole , or amongst the community of scholars or even , it now appears , in the exalted ranks of classical Greek historians and political theorists , then to ask whether literacy , however defined , is a cause of such a distinction becomes fruitless .
30 Our experiences while asleep , or under the influence of drugs , sometimes seem inexplicable in terms of this rather humdrum awareness , much more personal , and therefore more interesting .
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