Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 2 | But the prolonged depression of the interwar period caused a reappraisal of the attitude of governments to their own budgetary position , with Keynes the most influential figure in advocating that budget deficits should be adopted in such circumstances . |
| 3 | What , then , can be said of the contribution of teachers to the climate of opinion ? |
| 4 | We will look at the details of the exercise in Chapter 8 ; for the moment it is worth noting that the review centred around an analysis of school subjects in terms of skills , concepts , and attitudes ( expressed in terms of aims and objectives ) , and an analysis of the contribution of subjects to the eight areas of experience . |
| 5 | Three aspects of teachers ' knowledge will be analysed : i ) knowledge of the subject being taught ; ii ) capacity to represent it in a variety of appropriate ways related to the knowledge and experience of the type of pupils to whom it was taught ; and iii ) knowledge and understanding of the relevant pedagogy . |
| 6 | In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women . |
| 7 | But what of the responsiveness of bureaucracies to people in general ? |
| 8 | At the heart of the debate , and of the promotion of cigarettes to young people , is a crisis of confidence in the House and the country over the good will of the tobacco industry . |
| 9 | There were , of course , numerous forms and methods in which this ‘ law ’ expressed itself , but the most characteristic aspect was that of the transfer of resources to the socialist sector from the private commodity sector , and this is the process that — according to Preobrazhensky — imposes itself upon the socialist sector . |
| 10 | The collection of information about clients ' backgrounds and their ‘ problems ’ , and about carers , would likewise permit greater confidence that like was being compared with like ( or point to interesting differences ) , and enable some analysis of the matching of responses to needs . |
| 11 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 12 | One has only to think of the range of services to which an old person may or may not be entitled to see that , even if power is in general exercised responsibly , old people and their informal carers are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect , abuse of power or , more often and more excusably , to inexpert or biased assessment . |
| 13 | An analysis of the origins of partnerships , their supporters and sponsors , gives some important clues in the diagnosis of the development of partnerships to date . |
| 14 | Social Anthropology 1 presents an assessment of the contribution of the work of anthropologists to knowledge and understanding of a number of human concerns including ritual and religion , the family and marriage and the consequences of the spread of money economies and industrialisation among the populations of the Third World . |
| 15 | He mentioned the Home Office-led investigation of state funding of the voluntary sector ; the Department of Education 's investigation of educational support grants , about £650m worth , given to local education authorities for tasks deemed especially important ; and the Department of Social Security 's review of the shortfall of contributions to contributory benefits , amounting to nearly £500m a year . |
| 16 | Within the bird world as a whole , these conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways , from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock , and from the resplendent tail feathers of the male widow-bird to the male pied flycatcher 's deceit . |
| 17 | Since there are likely to be a few worms present , even in adult dogs , in spite of the diversion of the majority of larvae to the somatic tissues , it is recommended that adult dogs should be treated every six months throughout their lives . |
| 18 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 19 | They also show that , for the United States , the dependency ratio actually peaked in 1960 and is now decreasing because of the return of women to the workforce . |
| 20 | The bureaucracy developed fast — not only in terms of the proportion of officials to subjects , but also in terms of education , efficiency , and levels of pay . |
| 21 | Of direct interest only to the most rarefied of all constituencies of criminal justice was the abolition of the privilege of peers to be tried before a special court composed of members of the House of Lords if charged with the commission of certain crimes . |
| 22 | At the other extreme , language work may consist mostly of the provision of stimuli to ‘ creative writing ’ . |
| 23 | The ‘ utility functions ’ described by equation ( 9–2 ) allow the social valuation of the welfare of individuals to be calculated independently of the utility ( income ) levels of others . |
| 24 | The Court was much less explicit on the matter , but nevertheless did hold that the transaction was not incapable of falling within the scope of the Directive on the ground that it ‘ arises out of the grant of subsidies to foundations or associations whose services are not remunerated . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed the European Court of Justice has recently held in Dr Sophie Redmond Stichting v Bartol [ 1992 ] IRLR 366 that the " fact that … the transaction arises out of the grant of subsidies to foundations or associations whose services are not remunerated does not exclude the transaction from the scope of the EC Acquired Rights Directive " . |
| 26 | Amidst the excitement after that earthquake , a team of physicists from Athens University discussed how they could put their knowledge of the behaviour of solids to practical use for predicting earthquakes . |
| 27 | Arguments are put forward to show their importance to an understanding of the relationship of women to the home , and to suggest that they have had a significant influence on British architecture . |
| 28 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 29 | A resolution from Biggleswade , that the transference of the functions of the Board of Guardians to the County Councils would be detrimental to the poor and to the ratepayers , was strongly supported , as was another from elsewhere ; the newly elected government was to be asked to postpone the operation of the Local Government Act of 1929 . |
| 30 | One of her earliest V.I.P. cruises was to transport members of the Board of Customs to Port Ellen in Islay to open a new distillery . |