Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 2 | Celia Haddon , author of The Limits of Sex |
| 3 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 4 | Again , this suggests a theory of the limits of law as a method of dealing with conflict . |
| 5 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 6 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 7 | To these must be added two further issues which became more central towards the end of the eighteenth century : the problem of knowledge and of the limits of reason , and the question of history . |
| 8 | While disputing the basis of Mannheim 's critique of the limits of epistemology , von Schelting did tolerate the idea that there is some social basis of knowledge . |
| 9 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 11 | We will describe some of the experiments on discourse interpretation in this chapter . |
| 12 | The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place . |
| 13 | And , in a fascinating study , Carol Barnes , whose earlier research includes the correlations between ageing , learning and LTP mentioned in the previous paragraph , has allowed rats to live in the type of enriched environment typical of the experiments of Rosenzweig , Bennett and Diamond described in Chapter 6 . |
| 14 | The results of one of the experiments by Kaye et al . |
| 15 | An international comparison of union attitudes to work organisation found that British unions adopted a neutral position on this subject.8 Many of the experiments in work organisation in this country have been conducted without the involvement of workers ' trade union representatives . |
| 16 | More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) . |
| 17 | No , I have n't done anything recently , but today I actually rang publishing one of the papers about Sabri 's release and spoke to a guy at the Herald and Post and someone at The Observer , said I hope you put something in this week . |
| 18 | MP for Okehampton ( January 1641 ) , he signed the Protestation ( May ) but was sent to the Tower for a week ( July ) when his seizure of the papers of Sir John Eliot [ q.v. ] thirteen years earlier was brought up . |
| 19 | Classification of the papers of Thomas Balogh |
| 20 | The cataloguing of the papers of Ruthven Todd has been completed . |
| 21 | In fact , a surprisingly small number of studies examine this dimension of syntactic variation ; for example , many of the papers in Sankoff 's 1980 collection concentrate on grammatical constraints , and the focus of Weiner and Labov ( 1983 ) is similar . |
| 22 | Morrison and Low , in one of the papers in Language and Communication , refer directly to the distortions brought about by the narrowness of Krashen 's perspective . |
| 23 | Two of the papers in Science came from Japan and reported on individuals suffering from Type A syndrome , a rare variant of Type 2 diabetes . |
| 24 | In terms of the papers in front of you this morning , Chair , the position is that , that is addressed over the three year period , and the figures do fluctuate between years , so there is a , as we 'll see later in the paper , there is a , a net expenditure total in year one which increases in year two , but then is offset by a , a reduction in year three . |
| 25 | Knighton declined to comment ahead of the talks with Edwards , but it seems he is keen at all costs to avoid a court case . |
| 26 | Macura claimed that talks were taking place in Bosnia with the Serbian Democratic Party and the small Organization of Moslems in Bosnia ( MBO ) , the latter pulling out of the talks on Aug. 29 . |
| 27 | In agreeing the format of the talks on May 9 , both sides agreed that they should be completed " as quickly as possible " , although no deadline was agreed and many observers predicted that they would last for several months . |
| 28 | It is evident from the progress of the talks between employers and union , that the employers equally recognized this as the heart of the dispute . |
| 29 | Lord Young sent to BAe a confidential Foreign Office memorandum of the talks between Sir David Hanney , Britain 's ambassador to the European Community , and Mr Peter Sutherland ( Sir Leon Brittan 's predecessor as competition commissioner ) on this point . |
| 30 | In remarks understood to be directed at members of the European Communities ( EC ) and the United States , whose differences over farm subsidies had contributed to the breakdown of the talks in December 1990 [ see pp. 37796 ; 37930 ] , Dunkel called for " political rhetoric " to " be complemented by political courage " . |