Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly this model has considerable relevance in an NHS context , where in the majority of cases purchasers and providers are locked into each other for a large part of their business ; the information base on demand , cost and quality is poor and transaction costs are potentially high . |
| 2 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 3 | The Corporation may at any time pay to the Policyholder under Section A of this Policy in connection with any claim or series of claims in respect of which the limit for any one accident in respect of one occurrence or all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause is applicable the amount of such limit ( after deduction of any sum or sums already paid as compensation ) or any lesser amount for which such claim or claims can be settled and upon such payment being made the Corporation shall relinquish the conduct of and be under no further liability in connection with such claim or claims except for the payment of costs and expenses of litigation recoverable from or incurred by the Policyholder in respect of matters prior to the date of payment . |
| 4 | In connection with any one claim or number of claims arising out of one cause for indemnity against liability in respect of damage to property the Corporation may at any time pay to the Policyholder the amount of the indemnity provided by this Policy ( after deduction of any sum or sums already paid as compensation ) or any less amount for which such claim or claims can be settled and upon such payment being made the Corporation shall relinquish the conduct and control of and be under no further liability in connection with such claim or claims except for the payment of costs and expenses of litigation recoverable or incurred in respect of matters prior to the date of such payment . |
| 5 | The application should be submitted through the department in which the candidate wishes to study ( except for the Faculty of Arts , Faculty of Law and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine where applications should be sent to the Faculty Postgraduate Office ) . |
| 6 | Education , except for the sons of lords , was once directed at fitting a man for a job and , cynics would add , unfitting him for life . |
| 7 | There was total quiet except for the crackle of flames . |
| 8 | Except for the sound of feet on the leaves , thick as the patter of heavy rain on the floor of the wood . |
| 9 | None of these are as yet much used in mathematics education ( except for the dissemination of papers and electronic conferring in higher education ) . |
| 10 | There is nothing particularly unusual about Doctor Faustus 's early stage and printing history , except for the number of editions . |
| 11 | The plain-covered wordy tomes of earlier years , largely indistinguishable in appearance ( except for the use of photographs ) from their Lyellian and Geikien predecessors of the century before , suddenly gave way to glossy volumes with brightly coloured covers , two-colour diagrams , larger page sizes and a higher picture-to text ratio . |
| 12 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
| 13 | The grounds of the club lead to a golf course , but this , too , is still , except for the attentions of green-sweepers and grass-cutters . |
| 14 | That tells me much more about the behaviour of Oppositions than about the behaviour of Governments . |
| 15 | This curious list , published in the Guardian last November , perhaps said more about Sister Wendy 's concern for poetic painterliness than about the state of women 's creativity , yet is does highlight the growing regard in which Roxy Walsh 's work is held . |
| 16 | Harder to stop , except through the kind of investigations now underway , is the corruption which allowed politicians to award public contracts to private companies for substantial payments . |
| 17 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 18 | Korpi and Shalev ( 1979 ) insist that the development and pattern of collective bargaining in this country must be seen largely as a consequence rather than as the cause of changes in trade union density . |
| 19 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 20 | He has cared deeply that his contemporaries and juniors should write well ; he has cared less for his personal achievement than for the life of letters and art . |
| 21 | Contracts other than for the sale of goods |
| 22 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 23 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 24 | The long-term cost reductions will be achieved mainly by the redesign of both the product and the process , rather than through the refinement of operations alone . |
| 25 | In other words , your horse 's coat is a reflection more of his health and diet than of the number of hours his owner spends with a body brush . |
| 26 | Because Statementing is concerned with the allocation of resources rather than with the identification of needs strict limits are placed on the power of parents to affect the Statementing process . |
| 27 | Pursuing the concept that art and life are one , modern artists have chosen to use degradable materials concerned more with the nightmare of the present than with the recognition of generations still to come . |
| 28 | Nowhere is this more evident than with the acquisition of companies . |
| 29 | Secondly , he may be said to have challenged and broken the enhanced idea of empire , albeit with the help of circumstances . |
| 30 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |