Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because LTP is expressed as an enhanced response to single stimuli , it is processes controlling the rapid fusion of synaptic vesicles with release sites , and/or the formation of fusion pores , which are the most likely targets for regulation . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 3 | What of heroic exploits during armed service or the caning of school children ? |
| 4 | The first step towards such a combination would be for universities and polytechnics to demonstrate their interest in using graded test results as either a part or the whole of entry qualifications . |
| 5 | Perhaps in the selection of students for admission ; or the promotion of the faculty ; or the apportionment of priorities for institutional expenditure ; or the direction of research projects ; or the range of teaching and research subjects pursued in an institution ; or the character of the curriculum . |
| 6 | Loving portrayal in vivid art form all that is vile in human behaviour , or the presentation of occult powers as real and exciting , are far from balanced . |
| 7 | Serious buyers are not seeking the homely smells of baking or the aroma of coffee beans . |
| 8 | Moreover , it is a criminal offence under s47(1) Financial Services Act 1986 to induce a person to buy or sell shares by a fraudulent statement or the concealment of material facts . |
| 9 | More than 1 million ha are currently classified as severely saline and are mostly unsuitable for crop production because of either highly saline water in the root zone or the presence of salt crusts on the soil . |
| 10 | It is assumed that the purposeful provision of facilities , or the success of intervention strategies to encourage fuller use of available resources , depends critically upon an account of adolescents ' reasoning about leisure . |
| 11 | Where there is more than one secondary school the method of pupil selection or the identification of catchment areas may be all-important . |
| 12 | The new measures will mean that oil spillages or leakage of other hazardous materials will be punishable with stiff fines or the imprisonment of company executives . |
| 13 | For example , the spread ratio may be unity , the ratio of the contract values , the ratio of contract values adjusted for responsiveness to the general level of market prices , or the ratio of contract values weighted by some factor such as p . |
| 14 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 15 | The signals that such interest rates might normally be expected to give initially had very little impact on investment policy , whether in determining the quantity or the type of capital projects undertaken . |
| 16 | or the price of Ding Dongs , with dodging knife-fights , |
| 17 | Half of those who retired at that point or subsequently were effectively forced into early retirement by ill health or the lack of job opportunities . |
| 18 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the police were increasingly active against all sorts of minor public offences such as drunken or disorderly behaviour or the playing of street games . |
| 19 | it is executed in the United Kingdom no matter where the property concerned may be situate ; 2. it relates to UK property wherever it is executed ; 3. it relates to anything done or to be done in the United Kingdom , eg payment of the purchase price or the issue of consideration shares . |
| 20 | This derives not so much from the basic raw material — barley that has been malted — or the seasoning of hop flowers , as it does from the top-fermenting yeasts used in the making of ales ( as opposed to the bottom type employed in lagers ) . |
| 21 | But nowhere , not even in the potentially ‘ educational ’ rides and attractions based at The Land or The Universe Of Energy pavilions , is there any reference to the world 's problems nor , except as fantasy , to any world at all outside a US focus . |
| 22 | At the same time it was necessary to speculate as to how transient changes in neurotransmitters such as serotonin , or the flow of calcium ions across the synaptic membrane , might in turn trigger the specific synthesis of the new proteins that long-term memory demanded . |
| 23 | New problems may take the form of crises , such as sudden and/or final loss of ability to walk , or the development of pressure sores . |
| 24 | If the resulting index is to be effective and efficient , the assignment of notation from a classification scheme or the application of subject headings from a recognized list involves skill and judgement . |
| 25 | The emergence of Gestalt ‘ wholes ’ ( Bruce and Green , 1985 ) or the application of Gestalt principles , as in David Marr 's work on computer vision ( Marr , 1982 ) , illustrate the kinds of matchings of similar elements which , although operating at a level of pre-awareness , nevertheless result in a conscious recognition of an image 's identity . |
| 26 | Social problems arise through the incapacities of individuals or families to make use of services or the failure of welfare agencies to deliver them . |
| 27 | ‘ His business , ’ one observer noted of Pillai , ‘ is to do a good job , whether the job is the procuring of animal manure or the crushing of nationalism or the nursing of village sports . ’ |
| 28 | It is not envisaged that specific new resources will be identified to enable Local Plan work to proceed at any meaningful level ( either through in house preparation or the engagement of consultant services ) . ’ |
| 29 | Autumn movements , whether passage or the arrival of winter visitors , have been noted between late August and mid-November and spring movements or departures between mid-March and 13 May . |
| 30 | Some methods of achieving this knowledge automatically are available but they are less reliable than methods based on field-work or the study of air photographs , maps and documentary records for the area concerned . |