Example sentences of "[pron] of the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 2 | Having freed ourselves of the shackles of the classical conception of the company and its assertion that it is only the interest of the shareholders as property owners that the law should seek to protect , it becomes evident that a whole web of relationships of interdependence exist around and within the company . |
| 3 | We must remind ourselves of the contexts in which the relevant terms are acquired . |
| 4 | A number of initiatives are planned to contact more women to encourage them of the benefits of involvement . |
| 5 | Cash crop exports are politically ‘ safe ’ in the sense that hard currency earnings allow Third World governments to buy in cheap grain to feed their urban populations , and relieve them of the problems of ensuring adequate food supplies from what sometimes appears to be a permanently disgruntled peasantry . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a hotel licence , restricted hotel licence , or restaurant licence is held and to any premises for which a public house licence or refreshment licence is held and in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been granted under Schedule 4 to this Act if the licence-holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of section 58(1) of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in section 58(3) of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by , the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 8 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a public house licence is held and to which section 59 of this Act applies if the licence holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) of section 59 of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) of section 59 of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 5 ) to ( 7 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 8 | Modern science ignores this at its peril , and Xorandor may be read as a fable for scientists and would-be scientists , written in their own idiom , warning them of the consequences of cutting their project off from its conceptual genealogy , its own founding story . |
| 9 | Peter gives all new members of staff a document which tells them what their duties are and reminds them of the rights of the residents . |
| 10 | Now let us turn to exemption clauses and the effect upon them of the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 11 | At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government . |
| 12 | As they travelled west , along the same route that the young cadet had come , they met travellers who told them of the horrors of the revolution . |
| 13 | And I would want to know what the health effects were on them of the conditions in which they had to work . |
| 14 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 15 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 16 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 17 | He is lead to changes of the dosing of remedies because the ‘ variety among patients as to their irritability , age , spiritual and bodily development necessitate a great variety in their treatment and administration to them of the doses of medicines ’ . |
| 18 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 19 | Youatt , in 1839 , wrote that the appointment of Vial as Professor was a flagrant and irreparable error , for he knew nothing of the diseases of cattle and their treatment . |
| 20 | An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany . |
| 21 | His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth . |
| 22 | His expression was strangely shuttered , however , giving away nothing of the thoughts behind those grey eyes and the low , brooding brows . |
| 23 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 24 | At the post office next morning they knew nothing of the names of Clare or Durbeyfield . |
| 25 | To say nothing of the desires of the client . |
| 26 | Mr Henry Blacksell , prosecuting , told the court the Crown accepted Smith knew nothing of the events in 1982 when , as the jury found , her father had murdered her mother . |
| 27 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 28 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 29 | He reminded me of the circumstances of the incident resulting in that conviction which er was in fact that erm had actually er fired a weapon at a person causing injury . |
| 30 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |