Example sentences of "the [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The facts are fully set out in the judgments of Vinelott J. at first instance [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 204 and of the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] Ch. 203 .
2 The judgments of God fall upon his enemies .
3 The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends .
4 We have referred to the activities of building societies on numerous occasions already .
5 This was evident in press coverage of the activities of women protesters outside the American air base at Greenham Common .
6 When we come to consider the activities of insurance companies as a form of financial intermediation this distinction between the two types of business will be crucial .
7 The word ‘ consumerism ’ has been coined to describe the activities of pressure groups in this area , and the term ‘ consumer protection ’ used to describe the efforts made by Government and other bodies to provide rules and codes of conduct for relations between commercial organizations and their customers .
8 The second notable point is the one which , when the remit was published , led to much criticism of it , and which is registered in paragraph 1 of the minority report signed by three of the nine members remaining from the ten who at the outset composed the Committee : Certainly , the terms of reference specified industrial democracy as an extension of the activities of trade unions into the control of enterprises , other than public sector enterprises , by which the members of those unions were employed .
9 The activities of finance houses in providing credit facilities are also examined .
10 The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented .
11 B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so .
12 At the point of final sales too , trading companies coordinate the activities of group members in retail distribution .
13 In a group of cases in 1978 and 1979 the Court of Appeal sought considerably to limit the immunities of trade unionists from criminal and civil liabilities for acts done ‘ in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute ’ .
14 Especially note that the forms of frequency dependence of the transfer functions of filters considered in previous sections were simply accepted for what they were .
15 Furthermore , children may be born with , or acquire at a relatively early stage , processing biases which will constrain the forms of adult input to which they will be most sensitive .
16 Socially , politically and legally there was a very large difference between the American plains , largely unoccupied except by hunting Indian tribes , and the European ones , long if thinly settled by an agricultural population ; between the free farmer-settlers of the New World and the serf peasants of the Old , between the forms of peasant liberation after 1848 in Hungary and those after 1861 in Russia , between the large ranchers or estate owners of Argentina and the noble landlords and gentry of eastern Europe , between the legal systems , the administration , the land policies of the various states involved .
17 On the contrary , it was clear from article 40(3) and Klensch v. Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Agriculture et à la Viticulture ( Joined Cases 201/85 , 202/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 3477 that the principle of non-discrimination applied to the acts of member states in the agricultural sector .
18 Five factors account for 56 per cent of the variance in the attitudes of Oxfordshire teachers towards SSE .
19 This part of the survey deals with the attitudes of Oxfordshire teachers towards SSE as a general notion ( i.e. not restricted to the scheme operated by their LEA ) .
20 The procedures of public decision-making , therefore , may be more cautious than in the private sector , and more prone to the excesses of paper record-keeping in case the decision needs to be defended at a later date .
21 On funding : I detect a swing back of the pendulum from the excesses of market forces of the early 80s , but I predict that the recession will squeeze funding further .
22 ‘ I was thinking Marx and Freud are the same , ’ said Scarlet , reflecting disparagingly on her therapist and on what she knew of the excesses of Josef Stalin for good measure .
23 Their research on Malaysian and Singaporean women export-industry workers ( a category that mostly includes TNC workers ) shows that ethnicity and the availability of alternative employment can be key factors in the social and moral evaluation of women workers , and that there are substantial variations in the conceptions of factory work for women ( whether in TNCs or not ) across different communities .
24 The National Audit Office scrutinises the accounts of government departments on behalf of Parliament and periodic audits of the National Health Service ( Perrin , 1988 ) .
25 Take for example , the accounts of defence spending by the British Government as shown in Fig. 8.1 .
26 Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone .
27 The pair have gone against the wishes of management staff by opting for High Wycombe in preference to a ‘ compulsory ’ Commonwealth Games get-together at Inverclyde Centre , Largs .
28 The discussions of youth problems on the pages of Zhongguo Qingnian did not offer realistic advice according to many students .
29 A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further .
30 For us the important point is that the timescale on which continents have drifted about is the same slow timescale on which animal lineages have evolved , and we can not ignore continental drift if we are to understand the patterns of animal evolution on those continents .
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