Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The names and addresses of senior judges in the Irish Republic , together with a document which purports to come from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army , surfaced yesterday as the latest in the series of security leaks , writes David McKittrick . |
| 2 | Local education boards were established to have oversight of the day-to-day operation of the schools within their area , although they were to be firmly guided on the details of the curriculum by means of the Elementary Code of 1903 . |
| 3 | Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) . |
| 4 | This way of regarding the infinitive 's relation to person can be applied moreover to the uses already examined in Chapters Two and Three , where this form is related to another verb in the sentence and thus provides a coherent explanation covering all the uses of both versions of the infinitive by means of a single principle of analysis . |
| 5 | She climbed out of the wood by means of a stile and took the path that led round the cornfield . |
| 6 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 7 | The bosses were made from a single billet of soft iron ( Härke and Salter 1984 ) and fixed to the face of the shield by means of 4 to 5 rivets whose flat round heads are occasionally tinned . |
| 8 | Providing explanations ; promoting a fair hearing of the case by means of : seeking clarification , elucidating evidence and preventing inadmissible evidence , checking excessive domination by any one participant , diffusing emotion , counterbalancing bias , and maintaining high standards of courtesy ; complying with the duty [ mentioned in section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ] to avoid discriminating against any persons on the ground of race or sex or any other improper ground . |
| 9 | To that end it has recently amended the European Commission 's proposals for the introduction of a licence system for art exports outside the European Community and a directive concerning the regulation of the return of works of art illegally removed from one member state to another . |
| 10 | Social security spending expanded greatly after 1979 ( see Table 8. 1 ) partly because of the unexpected and sharp rise in unemployment and partly because of the increase in people of pensionable age . |
| 11 | is securely fastened to the head of the wearer by means of the straps or other fastening provided on the headgear for that purpose . |
| 12 | Many of them retain contact with the surface of the sediment by means of long siphons ( see left ) , which enable them to breathe and feed on small organic particles . |
| 13 | Most are attached to the sole of the boot by means of a strap under the instep and a hook secured to the front lacing . |
| 14 | It is worthwhile to attempt to form some estimate of the hazard by means of transport tests in which products are shipped by the route in question and returned for examination . |
| 15 | First , evasion of the UCTA by means of secondary contracts , which contract out of rights under the UCTA , is controlled by UCTA , s 10 . |
| 16 | The court granted the order , holding that as a result of the retraction by P. of his statement , and his being an alleged accomplice , there was insufficient evidence against the applicant for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to the Extradition Act 1989 In the circumstances the court did not find it necessary to deal with arguments that no evidence had been adduced that the applicant had , at the time of the offences , been ‘ within the territory of the requesting party ’ as required by article 1 of the Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Sweden contained in Schedule 1 to the Sweden ( Extradition ) Order 1966 and that the magistrate had failed to consider whether the Swedish court had power to try the applicant for participation in offences in Sweden committed from outside its territory . |
| 17 | Finance director Ian Wood said the threat of committal action had led to people paying up in advance of the action in 20pc of cases . |
| 18 | The 2nd violas fill in the middle of the harmony by means of very easy double-stops . |
| 19 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 20 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 21 | In the present there is only the attention of the soul by means of which the future becomes the past , and only when the constant diminishing of the future of the sound has made it entirely past can the mind measure it in terms of some preconceived standard . |
| 22 | But , unfortunately , they are having great difficulty in accepting the need to cut overhead costs , which are still far in excess of the target of 18% of turnover and are preventing the Valley Hotel from making a projected net profit by the end of the year . |
| 23 | Work on board ship demonstrated the utility of high-resolution resistivity imaging as an aid to sedimentological analysis , in addition to the more obvious application of calibrating downhole resistance images of the borehole by means of the Schlumberger Formation MicroScanner . |
| 24 | The Librarian invites an Inspection of the stock of works of History , Biography and Fiction , that are not included in this stock chiefly consists of books is available . |
| 25 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 26 | Inhutani II intends to finance its 40 per cent share of the project by means of levies on logging companies , which were originally earmarked for reforestation work . |