Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 2 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 3 | No , it 's just a general enquiry , really , I I guess erm , erm , you you 've , through you Chairman , I I 've I 've heard about the involvement of officers , but I wonder what extent there is involvement of of of members in the the the process of preparing those reports and presentations of the report , is is there any member comment on that . |
| 4 | Derrida has sometimes been criticized for the generality of phrases such as ‘ the history of the West ’ or the claim that his work involves a critique of ‘ Western metaphysics ’ . |
| 5 | The total area of lesions was calculated as the sum of areas of individual lesion . |
| 6 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 7 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 8 | Death rates were also calculated as the number of deaths per recorded discharge ( case mortality or fatal spell ratio ) . |
| 9 | A variety of difficulties were foreseen about the ability of fundholders to continue making savings . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 11 | Of particular importance F is the pressure exerted by the gas ( especially CO 2 , SO 2 and water vapour ) which is formed through the release of volatiles and by the conversion of ground water to steam . |
| 12 | The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up . |
| 13 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 14 | One reason often given for the dispersal of books is their appearance , and not their physical state — any shabbiness or indication that people might actually be reading them — but the visual appeal of their dust-jacket design . |
| 15 | The test of whether there are unobservable electrons can not be the test just given for the presence of dragons . |
| 16 | In a book written by educators for educators , a description of some of the causes of visual disability that can be encountered in schoolchildren is given for the guidance of teachers in their work with pupils . |
| 17 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 18 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 19 | Corporatism thus implies an ‘ institutional fusion ’ , whereby organizations that developed for the representation of interests become instruments of state intervention ( Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The data structures developed for the representation of lexicons are useful in any situation where vocabularies are needed , for example in word processors , spelling checkers , or for the classification of electronic documents ( such as e-mail ) . |
| 21 | These should be checked for the existence of attributes in the functional domain . |
| 22 | When measurements such as those described above are supplemented by measurements of correlations and spectra and by flow visualization experiments , some ideas may be developed about the role of eddies of different sizes in the dynamics of the turbulence . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a crazy state of affairs for a player to be persecuted for the reaction of others to what he has done . ’ |
| 24 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 25 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 26 | For the materialist Richards meaning was to be explained as the use of words either to point to things or to evoke feelings — in terms of behaviour , in the last analysis . |
| 27 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 28 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 29 | Many of the American neo-Lamarckians argued that evolution exhibited both adaptive and non-adaptive trends , the latter being explained as the unfolding of trends built into the very constitution of each group at its origin . |
| 30 | As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause . |