Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | A significant clinical limitation of alumina is the response of tissues to the presence of the ceramic . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All things considered the response of people to the proposed scheme can hardly be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 16 | Curiously , the addition of fungicides to the glue is not very effective . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 21 | While many sites were upgraded by the addition of walls to the existing earthworks during the third and fourth centuries , new stone defences , with or without a contemporary bank , were also provided elsewhere , reflecting an extension of this important protective function . |
| 22 | The model then allows the addition of supplements to the base figures reflecting the assessed needs of individuals as defined in three key areas : |
| 23 | No planting is undertaken without the addition of compost in the planting hole , and this is followed by a surface mulch . |
| 24 | The addition of PSL to the ADCC assay culture with the serum samples from patients with ulcerative colitis enhanced % cytotoxicity . |
| 25 | I believe it 's a necessary reform , it 's a pity that the government have not taken the opportunity of change in the number of seats to bring some measure of proportionality to the British European elections . |
| 26 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |
| 27 | The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed . |
| 28 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 29 | The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something . |
| 30 | Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not . |