Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 2 | By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk . |
| 3 | Even in such limited form , however , this defence , like the defence of act of a stranger , shifts the basis of the tort from responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk to culpable failure to control that risk . |
| 4 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 5 | The defence of honour as a theme gives emotional and moral substance to a book that has also the ingredients of a junior adventure story . |
| 6 | In 1124 Louis VI , king of France , took a banner from the altar of the abbey church of Saint-Denis to be his standard in the defence of France against a German invasion ( see pp. 177–8 ) . |
| 7 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 8 | At one extreme Diplock LJ stated in Wooldridge v Sumner : " The defence of volenti in the absence of express contract , has no application to negligence simpliciter where the duty of care is based solely on proximity or " " neighbourship " " in the Atkinian sense . " |
| 9 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 10 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 12 | In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world . |
| 13 | In the light of the response of teachers to the chaos of the assessment process devised by DENI — and its agencies — it can hardly be them ! |
| 14 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 15 | A significant clinical limitation of alumina is the response of tissues to the presence of the ceramic . |
| 16 | The first , the response of faith from a child , would be identified in private consultation involving minister , parents and child . |
| 17 | Faced with this level of uncertainty , the response of employers within the sector has been to invest as much of their profits as possible in land or housing , if possible in their home area or within the city , if tenure is reasonably secure . |
| 18 | This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided . |
| 19 | The response of schools to the need to manage things for themselves has partly been linked with their development as organizations separate from central government and local authorities and partly with the preservation of teacher freedom . |
| 20 | All things considered the response of people to the proposed scheme can hardly be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ . |
| 21 | Just as the response of households to a tax increase has to be taken into account , so too one needs to consider what political constraints the government faces in making such decisions and what machinery is necessary in order to put them into effect . |
| 22 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |
| 23 | This included in particular the inability of humanism as a philosophy to place adequate constraints on the exercise of freedom and also its inability to generate that set of values which is necessary if capitalism is to work . |
| 24 | This resulted in the inability of humanism as a philosophy to place adequate constraints on the exercise of freedom and also its inability to generate that set of values which is necessary if capitalism is to work . |
| 25 | Because Marxism like humanism is also the product of an Enlightenment view of the world , the practical problems of both capitalism and communism are seen to have a common origin — namely the inability of humanism as a philosophy to resolve the basic tension between freedom and control . |
| 26 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 27 | the addition of space between the letters of words to increase the line-length to a required width or to improve the appearance of a line . |
| 28 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 29 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 30 | Curiously , the addition of fungicides to the glue is not very effective . |