Example sentences of "the [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reluctance of the party to embrace unconditionally the activities of bourgeois intellectuals during this period was doubtless the result of the highly sectarian and consequently suspicious attitude with which the party viewed cultural activity at this time . |
| 2 | The activities of these components depend on their symmetries just as the activities of internal vibrations of the molecules are related to their symmetries ( see Section 5.7 ) . |
| 3 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 4 | I am not necessarily holding any brief for some of the activities of certain unions with members working in the North sea . |
| 5 | Field men accordingly keep a check on water quality in general and the activities of certain dischargers in particular by regular sampling and surveillance of watercourses and effluents . |
| 6 | Reports persisted throughout May that the security forces were turning a blind eye to the activities of Zulu mobs in the townships , allegedly waiting to respond until local citizens retaliated against the Zulus ' attacks . |
| 7 | Johnson ( 1982 , p. 213 ) observes that MPs ‘ may attempt ingeniously to get at the activities of governmental bodies through the questioning of Ministers , but … it is not something attempted very regularly and , when it is , the attack focuses on policy and resources rather than on particular decisions ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Judicial review ’ refers to the power of the High Court to supervise the activities of governmental bodies on the basis of rules and principles examined in Section B of this Part ( which may be called principles of ‘ public law ’ , as opposed to ‘ private law ’ ) . |
| 9 | The activities of neo-fascist groups in Silesia ( where most of Poland 's German minority lived ) were also discussed . |
| 10 | The provisions of the Charities Act 1992 probably affect the activities of most charities in the UK . |
| 11 | In this respect it has been recognised that Departments will have specific concerns relevant to the activities of particular groups of workers who provide services . |
| 12 | A letter dated 11 October 1262 from Roger de Doncaster , king 's clerk , to John de Kirkby , the chancellor tells us something about the activities of these men in the French capital . |
| 13 | Coordinates the activities of different parts of the body |
| 14 | There are no grounds for anticipating that public funds available to the Council for supporting the activities of governing bodies of sport are likely to be increased beyond existing levels . |
| 15 | Tozer 's writings are invariably simple in style and straightforward in substance , but he had a direct appreciation of landscape , which carries its own charm , and , like his friend Edward Lear [ q.v. ] , a sharp eye for human foibles and vanities revealed by the activities of local officials in the Turkish provinces . |
| 16 | Criticizing Vatra Romaneasca ( Romanian Hearth — a nationalist organization for the defence of Romanian interests in Transylvania ) , Tokes demanded a statement about its proposal to investigate him and nine others for " threatening the security of Romania " . |
| 17 | Spain also began to attract attention , especially in the context of the defence of Allied lines of communication in the Atlantic and into the western Mediterranean . |
| 18 | Sergei Kovalyov , biophysicist and co-founder with Sakharov of the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the Soviet Union , was sentenced in 1974 to seven years in a labour camp followed by three years of internal exile . |
| 19 | In many of these projects France , we shall argue , apparently succeeds better than Britain in equating the defence of national champions with European joint ventures . |
| 20 | H. M. Hyndman , the ex-Tory founding father of British Marxism , saw the defence of bad states against worse ones as a legitimate socialist position . |
| 21 | Unions continue to make a vigorous and robust contribution to the defence of working-class interests in a hostile society ; but , especially since the unsuccessful conclusion to the miners ' strike , there is no escaping the problems facing the movement . |
| 22 | The leaders of the labour movement concluded from this that the British government had a responsibility to defend democracy against fascism and were increasingly bitter about the apparent indifference or even acceptance which characterized the response of many Conservatives to dictatorship in central Europe . |
| 23 | In an exclusive interview with Amnesty International , Mr Ashdown strongly criticised the response of Western Governments to the Balkans War : ‘ The attitude of the West has shown all the weakness of Munich and the folly of the Versailles railway carriage , ’ he said . |
| 24 | During the colonial period the response of African entrepreneurs to the growing presence of these large companies was varied . |
| 25 | Procrastination , compromise and delay had been the response of successive governments of both political parties . |
| 26 | The response of British farmers to this development was to turn increasingly to specialization — dairy farming , market gardening , poultry and fruit farming . |
| 27 | The response of local authorities to these pressures will determine whether adequate provision is still available and whether central government controls will have the effects their supporters hope for . |
| 28 | Given the response of large sections of the Arab community to the US presence in the Gulf , commentators emphasized that Assad 's strategy was a dangerous one and at the end of August Western press reports stated that large numbers of soldiers had been dispatched to Syria 's eastern frontier with Iraq to put down pro-Iraqi demonstrations and riots . |
| 29 | Previous studies have shown that ET-1 is a mitogen for fibroblasts and acts synergistically to amplify the response of these cells to other growth factors . |
| 30 | Such anecdotes can not be a basis for generalisation , but rather illustrated the response of particular children to their own improved or deteriorating vision . |