Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia Haddon , author of The Limits of Sex |
| 2 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 3 | Again , this suggests a theory of the limits of law as a method of dealing with conflict . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Classification of the papers of Thomas Balogh |
| 13 | The cataloguing of the papers of Ruthven Todd has been completed . |
| 14 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 15 | His other publications included A Manual of the Operations of Surgery , which ran to seven editions , and articles on scapulo-humeral dislocation and pulsating tumours of the orbit . |
| 16 | Many of the operations of mind , for example high-speed addition , skilled typing , or playing a musical instrument are not readily examined through introspection . |
| 17 | At the time of Pentecost they appear to have numbered around four thousand ( dependent on Josephus , Philo and Pliny ) and to have established communities in most of the villages of Palestine . |
| 18 | The event commemorated the courage of the villages of Plestin who helped the crew of an RAF aircraft to escape on 27 September 1941 . |
| 19 | Easily Accessible : Bellows Mill is situated on the edge of the villages of Eaton Bray and Edlesborough . |
| 20 | A military council had already decreed the execution of the five principal conspirators , but confirmation of the sentences of death would not be lawful until the Dragon Throne was occupied once more . |
| 21 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 22 | McBride said in early 1980 that Debendox , a remedy for morning sickness , was , like Thalidomide , ‘ capable of causing deformities in a small percentage of the embryos of women who took it early in pregnancy ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ If the company had made this kind of claim in a newspaper advertisement , I 'm sure they would have been in breach of the codes of conduct on financial and political advertising , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It should be noted that breach of the Codes of Practice does not , of itself , render the police officer liable to any criminal or civil proceedings . |
| 25 | The defence challenged admissibility of the evidence resulting from the undercover operation on the grounds that it should be excluded either at common law or under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or as being contrary to paragraph 10.1 of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed . ) . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 27 | These courses are designed to give operatives a basic insight into water treatment , knowledge of the Codes of Practice and guidelines issued by the Health and Safety Executive and of course , they all offer good opportunities to promote the company . |
| 28 | The Council may further provide that compliance with the provisions of the Codes of Practice by any individual on the Register shall be a defence against any complaint in any proceedings brought against such individual pursuant to Bye–Law 70 provided that the provisions of the Code of Practice are , in the opinion of the Council , relevant to the complaint being investigated and adjudicated upon . |
| 29 | Her grief had none of the sanctions of legitimacy . |
| 30 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |