Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complex relationship between the professional provision of services and the determination of public policy was one of the major preoccupations of the Widdicombe Report and the subsequent legislation . |
| 2 | It would assume presidential powers " until the necessary conditions are provided for the normal functioning of institutions and the constitutional order " , which would be for a period until December 1993 at the latest . |
| 3 | Dry rot is disastrous , and any house you encounter with it should be left strictly to the experts , the treatment involving extensive renewal of timbers and the disinfecting of all other timbers , brickwork , slates and cavities . |
| 4 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 5 | This was made in cooperation with the Terrence Higgins Trust , the British Association of Counsellors and the Centre for Aids Counselling . |
| 6 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 7 | Ecological intuitions about the universal recycling of nutrients and the usefulness of much that is also aesthetic are unlikely to measure up against this yardstick for scientific truth . |
| 8 | Finally , organisations may be required to maintain records to satisfy rules imposed by the professional bodies , such as the Chartered Institute of Accountants and the Law Society . |
| 9 | Next month , I shall deal with the examination of the French Circle of Churches and the setting-up of the necessary parameters such research requires . |
| 10 | He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience . |
| 11 | By developing the principle of least work as one of several ways in which the condition of maximum probability may exist in relation to entropy , Leopold and Langbein ( 1962 ) theoretically derived the longitudinal profile of rivers and the hydraulic geometry of river channels . |
| 12 | " The basis of such a union " was " the social market economy … determined particularly by private ownership , the free establishment of prices and the fundamentally full freedom of movement of labour , capital , goods and services " . |
| 13 | At the same time schools are being placed in the front line of accountability by the proposal to give headteachers and governors direct control of budgets and the opportunity to opt out of LEA control . |
| 14 | The greatest disability of older people in the labour market is the erroneous belief of employers and the population at large that competence at most tasks declines seriously with age . |
| 15 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 16 | The tax base would be buoyant — that is , it would increase as incomes grew — and the amount paid could be related to income to produce a proportionate or progressive yield instead of the fundamentally regressive impact of rates and the community charge . |
| 17 | He notes the French love of leeks and the French abhorrence of rain . |
| 18 | The results of restorative proctocolectomy have generally been unfavourable if Crohn 's disease is diagnosed as there is a high incidence of complications and the failure rate is unacceptable . |
| 19 | Persons eligible for legal aid should have a free choice of lawyers and the services provided should be of the same quality as those available for fee-paying clients . |
| 20 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 21 | Students who successfully complete the HND courses will be eligible to become Diploma Members of the Chartered Society of Designers and the possibility also exists to continue studies at Edinburgh College of Art in the 3rd year of the BA ( hons ) in Visual Communication . |
| 22 | According to Hugh Jenkins , chief executive officer of Prudential Portfolio Managers and chairman of the judging panel , ‘ in particular , the panel was impressed by the extent of the review of operations , the depth of portfolio information , the detailed analysis of borrowings and the clarity with which the accounting policies are stated ’ . |
| 23 | The recognition of an ageing cohort of teachers and the need to manage morale and motivation . |
| 24 | Both accepted that the new system of relief should be based on rigorous classification of applicants and the further development of specialized services . |
| 25 | There is a difference between the ethnomethodological treatment of rules and the present discussion of attitudes . |
| 26 | The economic performance of the two are divergent , they have a different set of problems and the linking of part of Plymouth with Cornwall creates a wholly artificial unit unrelated to geographical , social or economic reality . |
| 27 | It laid the foundations of topology , the differential geometry of manifolds and the theory of space-time and gravitation . |
| 28 | General practitioners will have local contracts reflecting their desire to provide an expanded range of services and the needs of the community . |
| 29 | It will first go to Cytn ( Churches Together in Wales ) and through that body to the Council of Churches in Britain and Ireland , the European Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches . |
| 30 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |