Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] in [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Firstly , the significance of the event in terms of its meaning is important . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Does not the court indicate that it is necessary to inquire into the adequacy of the consideration in cases of this type ? |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The historian must also struggle to see the future history of the present in terms of the unity of human condition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The first is that the form which study skills development has typically taken in project schools is by no means at the radical end of the spectrum in terms of the different ideologies of education which we described in Chapter 3 . |
| 19 | In the IR , the usual presentation of the spectrum in terms of transmittance T means that peak height is not linearly related to the intensity of absorption . |
| 20 | At first Addington had linked the coming of peace in 1802 to the repeal of the hated tax which " should not be left to rest on the shoulders of the public in times of peace , because it should be reserved for the more important occasions , which he trusted , would not soon recur " . |
| 21 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 22 | National Trust So in conclusion in conclusion ladies I think we 've met the challenge of the industrialist in terms of making and from you the demand . |
| 23 | The first stage of visual computation , according to Marr , results in descriptions of the scene in terms of features like shading-edge , extended-edge , line , and blob ( which vary as to fuzziness , contrast , lightness , position , orientation , size , and termination points ) . |
| 24 | Belbin ( 1981 ) has found that one of the key determinants of a team 's success is the nature of the interaction in terms of the qualities brought to completing the task . |
| 25 | The merging of synonyms carries implications for the effectiveness of the index in terms of precision and recall . |
| 26 | They will crack their heads on the low door frame and be forced to stand bent forwards beneath the slope of the ceiling in attitudes of unsuitable humility . |
| 27 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 28 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 29 | It reveals the long-term vision of the organisation in terms of what it wants to be . |
| 30 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |