Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme Diplock LJ stated in Wooldridge v Sumner : " The defence of volenti in the absence of express contract , has no application to negligence simpliciter where the duty of care is based solely on proximity or " " neighbourship " " in the Atkinian sense . " |
| 2 | In the light of the response of teachers to the chaos of the assessment process devised by DENI — and its agencies — it can hardly be them ! |
| 3 | A significant clinical limitation of alumina is the response of tissues to the presence of the ceramic . |
| 4 | Faced with this level of uncertainty , the response of employers within the sector has been to invest as much of their profits as possible in land or housing , if possible in their home area or within the city , if tenure is reasonably secure . |
| 5 | This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided . |
| 6 | The response of schools to the need to manage things for themselves has partly been linked with their development as organizations separate from central government and local authorities and partly with the preservation of teacher freedom . |
| 7 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 8 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 9 | Curiously , the addition of fungicides to the glue is not very effective . |
| 10 | In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum . |
| 11 | While many sites were upgraded by the addition of walls to the existing earthworks during the third and fourth centuries , new stone defences , with or without a contemporary bank , were also provided elsewhere , reflecting an extension of this important protective function . |
| 12 | The model then allows the addition of supplements to the base figures reflecting the assessed needs of individuals as defined in three key areas : |
| 13 | The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed . |
| 14 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 15 | The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something . |
| 16 | Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not . |
| 17 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question . |
| 18 | In the development of illness , therefore , a combination of external and internal factors is involved in the majority of cases in the production of the original imbalance , and this imbalance can occur on any level , depending on the main thrust of the external stress . |
| 19 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 20 | This point can be proved in the majority of cases by the observations of the reporting officer . |
| 21 | As is the case in the majority of countries in the world , none of the countries in the Common Market ( with the exception of Southern Ireland ) recognizes venereology or genito-urinary medicine as a distinct specialty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The study found that the majority of takeovers in the EC outside the UK took place between non-listed or private companies and that , once agreement was reached between the parties , the barriers to takeovers were relatively low . |
| 24 | Consequently an artificial odorizer in the form of tetrahydrothiophen is added to North sea gas at the off shore terminals to achieve a ‘ distinctive smell ’ similar to the characteristic smell of coal-gas , as required by regulations made under s.26(1) of The Gas Act 1972 — the intention being no doubt to ensure that the majority of members of the public are able to detect a gas leak by its characteristic odour . |
| 25 | The majority of members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted to take industrial action over their workload . |
| 26 | Despite the rise in female employment , women today perform the majority of tasks within the household . |
| 27 | The majority of deliveries to the distribution centres are now also being despatched directly from the Slough filling lines without being stocked on site , with a new system of bar coding for ‘ full pallets ’ made up of single product lines . |
| 28 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 30 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |