Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has developed a 5-year ( 1988–1992 ) Action Plan , which features the preservation of the river dolphins as one of its major objectives . |
| 2 | A special report presented to the LDC meeting claimed that signatory countries had failed to " generate a public image of the LDC treaties as a positive mechanism for the preservation of environmental health " and called on the LDC to " take more aggressive actions to address marine pollution issues of a global nature " . |
| 3 | It was argued that the Tin Council entered into the transactions with third parties as agent acting on behalf of the member States as undisclosed principal . |
| 4 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 5 | Advantage can be taken of the filing exemptions as a small company provided that the appropriate note is included on the balance sheet . |
| 6 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 7 | Collisions do n't preclude the build-up of the resonance effects as the health hazard reports imply . |
| 8 | George Crabbe in his poem of 1802 , " The Parish Register " , writes of the village paupers as " Those who take from our reluctant hands / What Burn advises , or the Bench commands " . |
| 9 | In either case the original owner of the bridecattle rates as the " father " of the children of the bride . |
| 10 | It looks at both the validity of the accounting procedures as such and at the faithfulness of their conclusions to reality . |
| 11 | One of the other girls was sitting splay-legged using Dod 's drums as windshield , trying to roll a joint using one of the advertising leaflets as a roach . |
| 12 | Catchpool also saw the importance of the youth hostels as centres of international contact and friendship among people . |
| 13 | These buildings became a common feature of the market towns as the numbers of soldiers increased ; at one stage there were 15,000 troops in Brighton alone and large contingents in most of the other towns . |
| 14 | In Raoul 's case , there is a further frame attached to the sub-frame , and this is to hold both camera and radio equipment because , as you can see , he has utilised each of the pivot points as centres for cogwheels . |
| 15 | He accepts the acclamation of the mountain men as a way of saving his playmate from rough handling , after she has found the Crown . |
| 16 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 17 | The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals . |
| 18 | Subject to the importance of the property assets as part of the business acquisition , it is advisable that the purchaser 's solicitors carry out a full investigation of title to establish that the purchaser will acquire the property assets free from any adverse encumbrances , obligations or restrictions . |
| 19 | We begin by defining the variance-covariance matrix of the equation errors as : |
| 20 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 21 | In social security there is the retirement condition , which governs the receipt of the state retirement pension and which has been a major factor in the establishment of the pension ages as the customary retirement ages for men and women ( Walker 1980 ) . |