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

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1 In order to consider the proposal put to them by the management , the prospective providers of equity finance , and/or the providers of debt , and indeed the management in a management buy-in , will wish to see as much information as possible about the target .
2 Colonisation ( either planned or unplanned ) and removal of population pressure are simply not possible at all in small sea- or land-locked countries ( e.g. in the countries of the Sahel , Lesotho , Swaziland , Rwanda , Burundi , or the islands of Oceania ) .
3 As he told little aphorisms from Rumi or the anecdotes of Ferdowsi 's Shah Nama — the Mughal Emperors ' favourite storybook-his gentle voice soothed away the irritations of modern Delhi .
4 Tolkien himself insisted that he had not intended one ; and finding one need not be the ultimate necessity for the critic , since after all political messages add nothing to Tom Bombadil , or the Ents , or the Riders of Rohan , or the entrelacements , or most of the things discussed in this chapter and the ones around it .
5 Like shape , scale can not be correct over the whole map , but some map projections can be constructed so that either the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude , or certain lines of latitude and longitude , have the scale correct .
6 The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) .
7 From the reign of Henry VIII to that of George II it was the practice of the various probate courts to insist that ‘ a true and perfect inventory ’ of the personal estate of the person who had died should be attached to his will or the letters of administration .
8 Although this is their main role , like other members of the security forces , they are permitted to shoot — but only when they feel their lives , or the lives of others , are in danger .
9 Members of the family , coached by Nicholas , would relate stories from secular histories or the lives of saints .
10 Look , for example , at the photography of David A. Bailey , the films of Sankofa , the Black Audio Films Collective and Hanif Kureishi , the essays of Paul Gilroy and Kobena Mercer , or the paintings of Sonia Boyce ( Areean , 1989 ; Bailey , 1988 ; Gilroy , 1987 ; Mercer , 1988 ) .
11 Then there is a section which deals with the citation of authority by the parties , whether a welfare report has been considered , and the pro forma is dealing with cases where specifically the welfare check list has to be considered and the suggestion is made that each of the considerations under section 1(3) ( a ) to ( g ) are set out individually and the judgment or the findings of fact set out under each paragraph .
12 Do other sources of law ( including international custom , court decisions , or the opinions of writers ) help to establish some definite laws of war rules about the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ?
13 We recall Sonnet 129 , with its bitter puns on ‘ expence ’ and ‘ action ’ , or the sniggers of Lucio or Pistol .
14 The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour .
15 In a vein of intimacy the Cubists introduced into their compositions the names of popular songs , the programmes of theatres they had visited , the packets of cigarettes they had smoked , or the headings of newspapers they read — elements which , as Apollinaire put it , were ‘ already drenched in humanity ’ .
16 This decline was often caused by US balance of payments difficulties or the mechanics of US budgetary management .
17 The most common ranking is E-3 which means ‘ some protection against event risk : protection may not be provided against some anticipated events , or the effectiveness of protective provisions is questionable , or the benefits of protection are modest ’ .
18 The Court of Appeal agreed with Wright J. Mr. Tully is in effect saying that if he discloses his dealings with his assets or the moneys of Wessex and Abbey and if he furnishes copies of the documents relating to those dealings he will be providing evidence which may assist the police to prosecute him for the crime of embezzlement .
19 The literary intelligence at work in the best post-war critical journals still looks as arresting , in its moral urgency , as Ruskin 's Modern Painters or the essays of Matthew Arnold or George Eliot .
20 The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently .
21 ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney .
22 Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners .
23 This political ferment does not touch the duty-free shoppers in Christiansted or the snorkelors of Trunk Bay .
24 They made the following remarks ( per Lord Diplock ) , which I take to apply to all implementing measures , whether they serve to implement provisions of the Treaty or the provisions of directives :
25 He wrote not only to defend the faith against persecuting governors , sceptical philosophers , and combative rabbis , but also to uphold the authentic tradition against Simon Magus ' followers ( Acts 8 : 9 ) or the adherents of Marcion and the Gnosticizing Platonist Valentine .
26 What was not understood was that when you sweep away a feudal society , you do not overnight change the institutions or the casts of thought that have been built up over centuries .
27 Even then it tends to be restricted to middlebrow fiction and nonfiction ( nowadays , especially in North America , periodicals have replaced literature as the most favoured source , but even these tend to be rather upmarket ‘ general interest ’ magazines — not comic books , or photoromances , or political pamphlets , or the scripts of TV soap operas ) .
28 The parallel rakes of badger claws show up on scratching posts , such as fallen logs or the trunks of trees , as well as in the bare earth surrounding a sett or on a badger 's path over a hedgebank. 4 .
29 In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops .
30 Whether these urges are instinctive or the products of generations of indoctrination it is difficult to decide , but the fact remains , they do exist and survive through the centuries despite the ceaseless disapproval and discouragement of those individuals who would have the world abandon all gods and religion .
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