Example sentences of "structure and [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 2 | These included : that the diversity of pupils ' abilities should be recognised , and a ‘ differentiated curriculum ’ and range of examination papers provided ; that the quality of the maths teaching force be improved — by the recruitment and retention of more well-qualified mathematicians through financial incentives , flexible salary structures and guarantees of employment , and through increases in in-service training and support ; that the subject should be approached by teachers in a variety of different ways , including exposition , discussion , practical work and problem solving , as well as mental and oral work ; and that curriculum materials be developed reflecting a ‘ foundation list ’ of mathematical topics identified by the committee . |
| 3 | Other reasons given were the sale of subsidiaries , tightening controls on costs and improving the structures and systems of group companies . |
| 4 | Four issues stand out as being of crucial importance : how many distinct ‘ modes of production ’ are there ; in what order do these modes of production succeed each other and how is their sequence to be explained ; what forms of society necessarily correspond with , arise from , or are determined by the different modes of production ; and lastly , what are the forms of state , or political systems , that are characteristic of , or produced by , different economic structures and forms of society ? |
| 5 | The organizational ‘ environment ’ has formed part of a managerial perspective on structures of authority which sees variations in management structures and forms of control as reflecting the mainly economic environment of the organization . |
| 6 | Higher education is relatively autonomous from the state but at the same time it is not isolated from the power structures and values of society . |
| 7 | It would not be the end of France 's participation in the alliance — although privately de Gaulle toyed with that step — but the end , so far as France was concerned , of participation in the structures and institutions of NATO . |
| 8 | The racist imagination turns the world upside down , but it does so through a conservative appropriation of existing structures and discourses of power . |
| 9 | The impact of the National Curriculum and all the changes it brings with it gives heads a pressing reason — just as Mr Baker 's off-the-peg allocation of incentive allowances gives them an opportunity — to review the structures and responsibilities of management in their schools . |
| 10 | In Italy , Cella and Treu ( 1982 ) maintain that the structure and initiatives of employers ' associations have tended to be a response to , rather than a determinant of , those of trade unions . |
| 11 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 12 | The research , co-funded by the National Environment Research Council and Central Electricity Generating Board ( since privatisation by the National Power/PowerGen Joint Environmental Programme ) , also addressed issues such as how pollutants affect the structure and processes of plant cells , and how ozone in the lower atmosphere causes abortion of oilseed rape flowers , reduces clover in grassland and may cause premature dropping of tree leaves . |
| 13 | Organizations have traditionally relied on structure and threats of insecurity to control the behaviour of employees . |
| 14 | Lawrence Kohlberg 's empirical work on moral development follows , as far as its basic stance is concerned , the structure and assumptions of Jean Piaget , who has demonstrated apparently invariant sequences of change , not only in relation to moral development , but in other areas , too . |
| 15 | Since then , much has been learnt about the structure and properties of proteins and about the active sites of enzymes . |
| 16 | In chapter 2 we turned our attention to the various types of bonding between atoms , ions and molecules and saw how the bonding related to the structure and properties of matter . |
| 17 | 6 of the book ; Processing , Structure and Properties of Block Copolymers ( M.J. Folkes ed . ) |
| 18 | Chemistry is concerned with the composition , structure and transformations of matter . |
| 19 | This does not rule out the possibility of critique which by investigation of the structure and forms of ideology as materialized expression ( discourse ) , can affect the forms of human practice . |
| 20 | Most countries have a written document known as " the constitution " which lays down the main rules governing the structure and functions of government and which regulates the relationship between the state and its citizens . |
| 21 | From the evidence of a 10-country study , Gladstone ( 1984 ) notes that the activities , structure and functions of employers ' associations do show a good deal of inter country variation , often a reflection of distinctive historical experiences and a particular course of industrialisation with resultant differences in the environment in which a country 's industrial relations system has to operate . |
| 22 | In addition , it is the aim of this course to extend students ' understanding of the structure and functions of English by focusing on the problems of teaching and learning the language in a variety of settings . |
| 23 | Its object was to show the comparative structure and functions of organs throughout the animal kingdom . |
| 24 | The chapter opens by recalling that the term ‘ industrial democracy ’ was first used by the Webbs in 1897 as the title of their book on the structure and functions of trade unions . |
| 25 | Representations of system-sentences may of course be used in metalinguistic discussion of the structure and functions of language : and it is such representations that are customarily cited in grammatical descriptions of particular languages . |
| 26 | 1 Education and communities is concerned with the evolution of multi-cultural society , looking at the structure and responses of communities , the effects of legislation on them , and conflicts within the education system . |
| 27 | Although Clegg identifies the structure and attitudes of employers ' associations and managements as the main , direct influences on the dimensions of bargaining themselves , in fact , the determinants of collective bargaining receive little detailed attention in his work . |
| 28 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 29 | The Scottish forces fear payment-by-results , regional pay scales and sweeping changes in the rank structure will be introduced after the Sheehy inquiry , now going on into police pay , allowances , rank structure and conditions of service . |
| 30 | In reality , of course , the structure and contents of school curricula were subject to many constraints . |