Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the colonial period the response of African entrepreneurs to the growing presence of these large companies was varied . |
| 10 | Procrastination , compromise and delay had been the response of successive governments of both political parties . |
| 11 | The response of British farmers to this development was to turn increasingly to specialization — dairy farming , market gardening , poultry and fruit farming . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such anecdotes can not be a basis for generalisation , but rather illustrated the response of particular children to their own improved or deteriorating vision . |
| 16 | The response of most analysts to this complex problem is to present their transcriptions of the spoken text using the conventions of the written language . |
| 17 | In principle , the response of less-involved teachers in the same school provides useful information and ‘ driving lessons ’ for all , followed by a wait-and-see approach to the use of the unit , provide valuable feedback . |
| 18 | It should have been substantially increased , as it is a useful contribution to the income of retired households at this time of year . |
| 19 | Researchers using the Luxembourg Income Study microdata have shown that in Sweden and West Germany lone parent family incomes approximate the income of couple-headed families on a per capita basis . |
| 20 | Yet the income of college-educated Americans of about that time was over $7,000 — considerably more than £2,000 ( $5,600 ) . |
| 21 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 22 | From 1908 onwards successive governments made adjustments to the income of some groups of parents in the light of their responsibilities ( for example , servicemen , the unemployed , widows and some income tax payers ) . |
| 23 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 24 | All intruders are threatened — and in some cases physically removed from the nest area and any damage is repaired by the addition of extra bubbles by the male . |
| 25 | Consideration is being given to the addition of extra modules to the general SVQs in business administration , hospitality , and leisure and tourism . |
| 26 | I have found the hatching rate to be greatly improved with the addition of 2–3 drops of Fincare ) . |
| 27 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 28 | In the present study the addition of increasing doses of egg lecithin to human and model biles progressively prolongs the nucleation time . |
| 29 | Would the addition of atomic weapons to the RAF 's armoury make it , rather than the Royal Navy , Britain 's ‘ Senior Service' in the atomic era ? |
| 30 | The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world . |