Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 to protect persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ;
2 ‘ protecting persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ’ ;
3 A student who offered shopowners immunity from the activities of ragweek in return for donations to charity was held by the trial judge not to have used menaces .
4 He might also , quite obviously , direct the activities of bishops throughout the Church , translate them and control them .
5 The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism .
6 It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate .
7 On the activities of NBFIs by far the most authoritative and recent account is Goacher and Gurwen ( 1987 ) .
8 In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system .
9 The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic .
10 In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) .
11 Sure Style spokesman Andrew Lincoln said : ‘ We have acted quickly to carry out an initial investigation into the activities of personnel at our Middlesbrough branch one of 15 remote locations in the UK . ’
12 Intragastric administration of indomethacin did not affect the activities of SOD in the gastric mucosa at three or six hours after indomethacin .
13 As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society .
14 As will have been apparent from the discussion on pre-emptive rights , this borrowing by the stock markets of an expression ‘ equities ’ derived from the activities of Courts of Chancery has in turn been borrowed by the companies ' legislation in its definition of ‘ equity securities ’ and ‘ equity share capital . ’
15 The growth of intra-industry is deemed to require a considerable amount of Europeanisation of the activities of companies by merger and acquisition , and DFI .
16 He admits that there has been ‘ a degree of concern ’ within the RCN about the activities of nurses in clinical research .
17 The crisis in the royal authority was underlined by the activities of Charles of Navarre in Normandy .
18 It also proposed that there should be a national organisation to co-ordinate the activities of universities in validating public sector colleges ' degree courses .
19 The activities of people in pictures can be equally puzzling .
20 Up to a point the tsarist police could control the activities of intellectuals within the confines of the empire , but silencing Herzen was beyond their powers .
21 Throughout the 1650s , extreme restrictions were placed upon the activities of individuals on Sundays ; a strict Puritan sabbath was imposed , and all working , sports , and non-essential travel were made illegal .
22 Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House how much warning time he had of the conflict in the Gulf , how much warning he expects to have from the IRA before any outrage and how much warning he expects of the consequences of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the activities of extremists like Mr. Le Pen in France ?
23 The message is that all staff of an institution have more than an ‘ academic ’ interest in the activities of staff in other departments .
24 There is a need for some form of rapid internal signalling system so that the activities of cells in different parts of the same creature can be coordinated .
25 I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years .
26 This indicated that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type substance in the gut and its oral administration test reflects the sum of the activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colon .
27 A spokesman for the company management said later : ‘ Management at the Timex plant in Dundee deplores the activities of protesters outside its plant , tactics which are designed only to intimidate the workers who are coming into the plant . ’
28 Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression .
29 By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk .
30 Where the escape is caused directly by natural causes without human intervention in ‘ circumstances which no human foresight can provide against and of which human prudence is not bound to recognise the possibility , ’ the defence of act of God applies .
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