Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] of [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this task , the production of materials catering for the needs of pupils of all abilities will be seen as a priority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) For the expenses of members of boards as opposed to the expenses of the boards themselves , see 5.3 . |
| 8 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 11 | The households can be thought of as the owners of factors of production , the services of which they sell to firms in exchange for income ( in the form of wages , salaries , interest , rent and profit ) . |
| 12 | For somewhat like Althusser , Foucault defends a ‘ discursive determinism ’ which looks to a wide range of institutions and academic disciplines as the determinants of conceptions of agency . |
| 13 | As the bodies of victims of the fighting are buried , there is growing alarm over the scale of the killing both during and after the battle . |
| 14 | The effects of isotope substitution on the observed spectrum may give valuable information about the numbers of atoms of a specific element present , and about any symmetry relationship between their positions . |
| 15 | How else are we to break through the effects of centuries of compliance and make the Copts erect and independent once again ? ’ |
| 16 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 17 | The main purposes of the Bureau , which was established in September 1983 , are to improve the accessibility of macroeconomic models ; to promote general understanding of the properties of models of the UK economy ; and to allow comparisons between models to be made more easily . |
| 18 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 19 | In such cases , however , the Committee will have the benefit of the opinions of holders of high judicial office and those opinions will be based upon law . |
| 20 | These are just some of the reactions of members of the community regarding the renovation of St. Joseph 's House . |
| 21 | Many of the tasks of soldiers of the UN battalion are of this humanitarian nature , rather than purely operational . |
| 22 | But while this may be true for matters concerning individual patients , as family relationships often develop severe tensions and problems , it is rarely true of the relatives of groups of patients who , when involved in planning and running services , show collective good sense and experience in addressing practical problems . |
| 23 | Many of the identifications of portraits of Roman emperors which nowadays seem self-evident do in fact ultimately depend on the associations made by scholars since the Renaissance between these portraits and labelled coins . |
| 24 | They drew on studies of individual cases , questionnaire surveys , studies of the interactions of parents of people with schizophrenia in small group situations , data from tests of abnormal thought processes of parents , and of abnormalities of their communication and language . |
| 25 | My reply is that I have sought to identify some of the congeries of qualities of the legal institution of marriage , not to identify its ‘ essence ’ . |
| 26 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 27 | In a Raman spectrum , the intensity of a band depends on the squares of the derivatives of components of the polarizability tensor , . |
| 28 | This is in contrast to ELT materials which , in various ways , take account of the needs of learners of the language . |
| 29 | More precisely , do they apply to a receiver of the whole , or substantially the whole , of the property of a foreign company appointed by or on behalf of the holders of debentures of the company secured by a charge which , as created , was a floating charge ? |
| 30 | Should , say , the factor ( ) be repeated r times , then in terms of a set of constants B i the expansion is expressible as Restoration to a common denominator and comparison of the coefficients of powers of s in the numerator with those in the original numerator determines the constants B i in equation ( 11.37 ) or A i in equation ( 11.36 ) . |