Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) . |
| 2 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 3 | The multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of referrals to these community teams for the elderly is not associated with misdiagnosis of psychiatric disorder . |
| 4 | Commitment to the assessment of pupils is the requirement of the 1988 Education Reform Act which most directly touches teachers . |
| 5 | They are particularly suited to the assessment of Outcomes concerned with analysis , synthesis and evaluation . |
| 6 | Indeed , Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences . |
| 7 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 8 | Again , commercialism may lead to the pursuit of indicators , such as current balance sheet results , chosen more to convince the government that commercial goals are being successfully achieved than for their relevance to the economic objectives of the enterprise . |
| 9 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 10 | It relates to the calculation of pensions in this country . |
| 11 | It was a fitting postscript to the year of victories and the real end of the invasion danger . |
| 12 | Much of the water vapour would have been supplemented with ammonia and methane , and possibly , according to the evidence of rocks and the sedimentary record rich in silica , a little nitrogen and water vapour existed , but oxides of carbon predominated . |
| 13 | The trouble is that there are just not enough places available at the moment , and in recent years local authorities have been unable to provide more owing to the shortage of funds and the cash limits imposed on local authority expenditure by central government . |
| 14 | that related to the working of minerals ; |
| 15 | The same implications attach to the playing of games or the membership of clubs and so on , although what is of even more interest are the ‘ unwritten ’ rules which underwrite the more formal , quasi-legal , ones . |
| 16 | A way of improving communications is to assist the learner to become sensitive to the sharing of ideas , discussion of topics and experiences . |
| 17 | Weary of quotations from the Bible being used to lend God 's authority to the subjection of women , the leading US feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman 's Bible in 1895 , a caustic and entertaining commentary on the scriptural passages most favoured by misogynists . |
| 18 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 19 | Aggie looked from the child to the heap of rags , then down at the mountain of clothes covering her own body . |
| 20 | The bitterness of war put an end to the beautifying of houses for a time . |
| 21 | But this new turn of the rudder in the opposite direction will not signify a return to the previous situation , that is , to the appropriation of surpluses and so forth . |
| 22 | Over the last eight months , we 've covered the progress of our self-build , Potton Milchester house , from its construction to the installation of services . |
| 23 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 24 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 25 | The Railway Works , established in mid-Victorian times to produce locomotives for the London and North-Western Railway , had shortly afterwards changed to the manufacture of carriages , most notably those for royal trains , and ‘ made in Wolverton ’ was a byword for quality in coach building . |
| 26 | These forms of production will increasingly apply to the manufacture of computers — and this is yet another area in which Japanese firms could turn out to have an edge on the rest of the world . |
| 27 | The main emphasis here will be on the City Code as it relates directly to the conduct of companies in relation to the Stock Exchange . |
| 28 | There is no obligation at law to take steps to mitigate indemnity claims : this is why specific provisions will almost always be inserted in relation to the conduct of matters covered by indemnities . |
| 29 | More recently , the concept of ‘ going native ’ in the Washington bureaucracy , referring to the tendency of officials appointed ( directly or indirectly ) by the president to adopt the values of the bureaus to which they are appointed rather than those of the man who appointed them , is a further example of the importance of socialisation factors as a source of values . |
| 30 | In some cases these changes may be due to the tendency of tracheoles to migrate actively towards areas of high oxygen demand , drawing the tracheae after them ( Wigglesworth , 1954 ; Smart , 1956 ) . |