Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 2 | In reality , centralized reward systems rely on negative rather than positive rewards ; that is , deviation from a norm rather than recognition of performance beyond the norm ; criticism for failure to reach the expected performance rather than recognition of good performance . |
| 3 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 4 | Discuss the pros and cons of separation rather than fusion of powers in the policy-making process . |
| 5 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 6 | Think in terms of ease more than possibility of movement for the number of people you anticipate . |
| 7 | Although production of energy within the LDCs will also increase and this will reduce dependence on imported oil , nevertheless total energy imports will rise by some 2% per annum . |
| 8 | Profits were 50% up at passive components distributor Nortronic but Wakefield , the US networking equipment company that has moved into network systems integration , turned in a slightly lower contribution than last year because return of growth in the UK market has not enhanced the computer communications sector yet . |
| 9 | Since provision of education for the lower orders was largely dependent on local initiative and attendance was usually a matter of parental inclination , both were haphazard . |
| 10 | While uniformity of view between the managing partners can not always be achieved every effort has to be made to avoid discrepancies . |
| 11 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 12 | Since perfusion of glutamate into the hippocampus in vivo induces seizures , our results suggest that an increase in endogenous extracellular fluid glutamate may do the same . |
| 13 | Since culture of PBL in the presence of cycloheximide greatly reduced ELISA index values ( mean 0.87 [ 0.11 ] ) , the antibodies detected must have been newly synthesised . |
| 14 | Production of lexical items from each of these two classes has its own distinct error pattern ; production of words from the open class is characterised by a high frequency of substitution and phonological errors , while production of words from the closed class is characterised by a high frequency of loss and addition errors and very few phonological errors . |
| 15 | After transfer of entries from the Working-Set , the space used for that dictionary range is returned to the system and will be re-used for other tables . |
| 16 | As chairman of Airbus in the UK , Mr McKinlay has responsibility for the company 's Broughton factory . |
| 17 | Earlier , as president of Business in the Community , he had attended presentations to business leaders at St James 's Palace , following a night at Kensington Palace in a separate suite to Princess Diana . |
| 18 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 19 | In 1883 Knott travelled to Japan to succeed ( Sir ) J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] as professor of physics in the Imperial College of Engineering ( later Imperial University of Japan ) . |
| 20 | Charles Edwin Bessey ( 18451915 ) came to Lincoln , Nebraska , in 1884 as professor of botany at the state university and state botanist . |
| 21 | In 1894 he replaced ( Sir ) T. E. Thorpe [ q.v. ] as professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Science , which became part of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1907 , two years before Tilden retired in 1909 . |
| 22 | Phillip King has attracted surprisingly modest attention in the ten years since his retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 but , as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art until 1990 , he has shaped the styles of his students and of artists such as Richard Deacon , who had left the college before his arrival . |
| 23 | Much of the credit for that must go to New Zealander George Simpkin , the man who made a name for himself as coach of Waikato and subsequently as coach of Fiji in the 1987 World Cup . |
| 24 | Shareholders of both companies should benefit from future cost reductions as duplication of operations within the merged group are eliminated . |
| 25 | Caroline Michel will run the literary group 's new marketing department , working with Frances Coady as associate publisher and as director of marketing of the four imprints , with all publicity directors reporting to her . |
| 26 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 27 | The success of Drysgol Una the Limousin cow which emerged as champion of champions in the cattle section also provided an historical link with one of the first shows . |
| 28 | As graphic corroboration of this account , heavy arrowheads from this destruction have been found in the excavations , as well as evidence of gutting of the workshops by ferocious fire . |
| 29 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 30 | Michael Heseltine , as Secretary of State for the Environment , had taken a strong line on Barlaston , using his powers to carry out emergency repairs for the first time . |