Example sentences of "of the [noun] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them .
2 For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn .
3 The former includes a recognition of the conflict in schools between socialisation and the fostering of the autonomy of the individual , as well as the political and social assumptions and values implied in the curriculum .
4 Sites D thirty nine and D forty are in any case not located within the built-up area of the settlement in terms of Greenbelt Plan Policy Four .
5 Hydrologists measure the drying out of the soil in terms of the amount of rainfall that would be needed to make water just begin to move downwards again .
6 one can have a use that does not come within any of the specified classes but the activity either comes within the use specified or it does not and there is no scope for the management of the problem in terms of facts and degree .
7 Specification of the problem in terms of u τ and Θ H is particularly useful in application to the atmospheric boundary layer , as these are often known when the dynamics of the whole system are not .
8 Firstly , the significance of the event in terms of its meaning is important .
9 Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent .
10 Although the earlier calculation of the value of the SDR in terms of a basket of sixteen currencies had the advantage of making it more stable in value than individual currencies , it had nevertheless certain shortcomings .
11 Does not the court indicate that it is necessary to inquire into the adequacy of the consideration in cases of this type ?
12 It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void .
13 That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can .
14 There should be ‘ more active involvement of the shareholders in matters regarding the audit ’ .
15 Whilst there is no great dis difference in the distance of any of the sites in terms of , in aggregate , all the journeys which would be attracted to Cambridge , bearing in mind the role of the new settlement in serving Cambridge 's development needs , would be substantially higher in money terms and in the use of energy than most of the alternative proposals .
16 ‘ The role of the theatre in times like today is to elucidate and give a positive lead . ’
17 This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems .
18 Mitterrand emphasised the importance of the centre in relations with the Soviet Union .
19 He had an idealized notion of the Christian emperor of the West furthering the Christian message and fighting the enemies of the faith in crusades within Christendom as well as without .
20 I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka .
21 Table IV gives a comparison of the change in scores during treatment with the two types of enema ; negative values from the analysis of covariance favour the 5-ASA enema .
22 ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine .
23 An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life .
24 It is important to consider the role of the Government in terms of economic regeneration , the role of local government and , by implication , the need for strategic levels of government .
25 If all exports and imports were originally declared in terms of dinars and then converted into ‘ statistical ’ dollars , it should be possible to reconstitute the original dinar values by multiplying up by the ‘ statistical ’ value of the dollar in terms of dinars .
26 However , the full implications of the Act in terms of capital expenditure , existing plant life and product costs will not be fully apparent until industry has a clearer idea about how the new law will be enforced .
27 The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority .
28 The historian must also struggle to see the future history of the present in terms of the unity of human condition .
29 And there 's no relationship at all between those projects and any other part of the system in terms of , costings and all the other things that happen , and the project review will happen on the monthly data collection and not on individual projects .
30 We could , then , presumably , if we had the relevant instrumentation , specify the place of the utterance in terms of a fine interaction of latitude and longitude .
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