Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drucker itemised four characteristics of the nature of decisions . |
| 2 | They are only suffered in such places in order to appear respectable in the eyes of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers ( AFBD ) . |
| 3 | This advisory section of the descriptor gives an indication to tutors of the range of contexts within which a module could be offered and the subject matter which would assist in the achievement of the Outcomes . |
| 4 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 5 | Choice of themes and situations is governed by religious , cultural and educational considerations of the country of countries for which the course is planned . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , the prison service may wish to pursue the twin goals of the punishment of offenders and at the same time their rehabilitation . |
| 7 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 8 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 9 | News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region . |
| 10 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
| 11 | Records of their findings now comprise the Library of Visitation Books of the College of Arms , and a number have been published by the Harleian Society . |
| 12 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 13 | The outcome of numerous studies into different aspects of the behaviour of groups is a considerable store of useful and practicable knowledge about the working of groups . |
| 14 | In spite of these limitations , various aspects of the behaviour of copolymers , plasticized polymers , and the chain length dependence of T g , can be predicted in a reasonably satisfactory manner . |
| 15 | In addition to explaining the risks of financial loss , the warning notice also explains a number of key aspects of the operation of futures markets which may not be readily apparent to the private investor such as : ( 1 ) The treatment of collateral and the fact that a customer may lose a proprietary interest in the collateral and not receive back the same assets that he deposited . |
| 16 | The study of politics ought to have been transformed by the theory of voting and aspects of the theory of games , which underlie public choice . |
| 17 | Confining our attention here to sub-aerial volcanic activity , we have already considered some aspects of the distribution of volcanoes at the global scale in the three previous chapters . |
| 18 | Programming is the context used to develop an understanding of many aspects of the application of computers . |
| 19 | ( 2B ) For the purposes of this Act , the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following ( among others ) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods — ( a ) fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied , ( b ) appearance and finish , ( c ) freedom from minor defects , ( d ) safety , and ( e ) durability . |
| 20 | One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups . |
| 21 | Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) . |
| 22 | Bertalanffy ( 1972 ) distinguished three aspects of the study of systems . |
| 23 | Consult together and discuss aspects of the care of individuals ? |
| 24 | A subsequent successful re-launch of the product , based on research that revealed a Swiss pre-occupation with cleanliness , emphasised the germ-killing and hygienic aspects of the use of dishwashers . |
| 25 | One of the more interesting aspects of the use of computers in education is their potential for involving children in problem-solving activities . |
| 26 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 27 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 28 | The presence of a population of seldom fewer than 2,000 cormorants , 20,000 gulls ( including the rarest of all gulls , Saunders ' gull ) , 15,000 ducks , 5,000 herons and 10,000 waders must have conjured up nightmare pictures of the risk of birdstrikes . |
| 29 | The roles of the board of governors and the executive board are broadly as described in Section 8.2.3 . |
| 30 | In the process of satisfying the demands of the flood of participants , the inquiry 's photocopiers had dealt with over fifteen million sheets of paper , enough to demolish a forest of 1,000 trees . |