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

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1 She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations .
2 While there is sufficient evidence of protection of prisoners within the prison system itself , questions must be raised about the use of pre-trial detention .
3 The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered .
4 The method of election of members to the Special Reserved Seats has been changed .
5 [ Archives at Kedleston ; T. H. Taunton , Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses , vol. i , 1887 ; L. Harris , ‘ The Picture Collection at Kedleston Hall ’ , Connoisseur , July 1978 ; L. Harris , Robert Adam and Kedleston , 1987 ; J. C. Sainty , ‘ Origin of Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords ’ , House of Lords Record Office Memorandum , no. 52 , 1974 . ]
6 A study of a bakery in south-east England uncovered a highly organised system of stealing from work and of fiddling of customers by the bread salesmen ( Ditton , 1977 ) .
7 Costs include : buying or leasing the new property ; building and refurbishment ; staff costs ( including redundancy/severance payments , retention payments if staff are to be encouraged to stay until the move goes ahead , recruitment and training costs for new staff and relocation and removal allowances for those moving ) ; communication costs ( including the installation of telephone and telex facilities and changes to stationery ) ; occupancy costs ( including rent , rates , lighting , heating and security ) and other costs ( such as new machinery and the cost of removal of goods from the old to the new site ) .
8 When a current is applied to the gold film , direction of spin of electrons in the device can be switched up or down .
9 Nevertheless , regardless of hiatal hernia , the high prevalence of oesophagitis in asthmatics and the apparent lack of effect of bronchodilators on the oesophageal mucosa are important clinical observations that provide additional evidence for a close relation between GOR and asthma .
10 Mills and Jordan ( 1980 ) examined timing sensitivity as a predictor of ASL learning , and discovered positive correlations between ability to discriminate patterns differing only in timing of onset of components of the pattern , and grade scores for sign language proficiency .
11 Of the total of 179 , 14 dream reports were judged to contain elements from the films , although there was no difference in the frequency of incorporation of scenes from the two films .
12 As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed .
13 Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that
14 The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee .
15 The Concordat , described as " the best negotiated settlement in Western history " , confirmed the German emperor 's renunciation of investiture of bishops with the ring and the crozier and the pope 's concession that episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the king .
16 Imported raw cotton was the basis for the emergence of the most dynamic of the " new " manufactures , but as late as 1776 Adam Smith omitted cotton goods from his argument for a sustained expansion and downward spread of consumption of non-essentials over the " course of the present century " , and still found examples enough for his purpose .
17 It 's , it , it is a form of accountability of universities to the public really .
18 These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever .
19 By comparison , the elucidation of ownership of estates in the late Saxon period ( by 1066 ) , the Norman period ( 1086 onwards ) , and the Middle Ages is relatively easy , especially for ecclesiastical estates .
20 The most prominent aspect of privatisation , as practised by the Conservative government , has been the transfer of ownership of assets from the public sector to the private sector ( as in definition 1 ) , and it is the arguments for this that are now considered .
21 the average rate of formation of stars in the Galaxy
22 The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) .
23 This is particularly true in the case of recovery of monies under the Consumer Credit Act where a large volume of recovery can be handled once the necessary styles and parameters have been determined .
24 The opposition Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) thus became the largest parliamentary bloc [ for table of distribution of seats in the Sejm see p. 39016 ] .
25 is just one of band of companies around the country , presenting their business plans to private investors .
26 Following the announcement of approval of elements of the SNMP2 proposal , Westford , Massachusetts-based consultancy Paul Freeman Associates says that a combined SNMP 1/2 version of its Universal SNMP Agent will be announced very soon .
27 Following the announcement of approval of elements of the SNMP2 proposal ( CI No 2,149 ) , Westford , Massachusetts-based consultancy Paul Freeman Associates says that a combined SNMP 1/2 version of its Universal SNMP Agent will be announced very soon .
28 No appeal lies against decisions of the Supervisory Authority and its decisions may only be scrutinized in the ordinary course of justice if they relate to the suspension of quotation of securities at the stock exchange .
29 I know that there have been improvements , but as I represent part of the country where the climate is meteorologically colder , I know that there is a great deal of scope of increases in the support that we provide for heating allowances for our elderly population .
30 Among the new provisions in the 167-clause bill is a government power of veto of members of the new Channel 4 Corporation , to be appointed by the Independent Television Commission .
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