Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly in the 1930s significant shifts in popular attitudes affected political postures , and for a variety of reasons there were calls for increased public sector intervention in a range of national economic and social affairs . |
| 2 | Instead of rainy high streets there were orange and lemon orchards , instead of crowds there were slow-paced villages . |
| 3 | Although a significant feature of the 1990 accounts was the substantial fall in the value of investments there had been a significant recovery of the losses so far in 1991 : |
| 4 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 5 | For the children of suicides there is an equal if not greater burden to bear . |
| 6 | However , in the case of mergers there are no official proposals to change the orientation of policy , despite the concerns which have been expressed about the operation of present policy . |
| 7 | As a result of the series of reactions there is a formation of Oxalacetic Acid — the 4C compound which combines with the Acetyl Coenzyme A. |
| 8 | In the majority of houses there are two different types of hot water : one which is in continuous circulation around the radiators of the central heating system , and one which comes out of the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen . |
| 9 | In one-third of cases there was either suspicion or definite knowledge that a sibling had also been abused ( cf. |
| 10 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests . |
| 11 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 12 | Indeed in a number of cases there is explicit meshing of the two approaches . |
| 13 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 14 | In a number of designs there are double transepts and most churches in the city of Cologne have several towers , often roofed in Rhenish helm style ( 328 , 330 ) . |
| 15 | In many different groups of animals there is an association between polygyny and sexual dimorphism and Darwin himself was well aware of the relationship . |
| 16 | No one can say just how many species of animals there are in these greenhouse-humid dimly lit jungles . |
| 17 | To see what kind of animals there was next . |
| 18 | In Aristotle 's various treatises on the comparative physiology and classification of animals there is a consistent presumption that man is a single species . |
| 19 | In the early development of computers there was a split between computers designed for scientific calculations and computers designed for commercial or business data processing . |
| 20 | When the Dwarf King 's messenger reached Dieter the Emperor reacted immediately , not by sending help ( for the army was so starved of funds there was no help to send ) but by removing his entire court westwards to Altdorf in order to be as far as possible from the threat of Grom 's horde . |
| 21 | Since there is normally no movement of funds there can be no such thing as exact financial statistics . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 23 | The number of teenagers there is expected to fall by 45 per cent between 1980 and 2000 . |
| 24 | In the Faculty of Arts there are degrees in Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Middle East ( taught by members of the Classics Department , the Faculty of Divinity and the Archaeology Department ) and in Archaeology and Scottish Ethnology . |
| 25 | Even under local management of schools there may be little that you can do about restoring peeling paint work and cleaning grimy windows , but it is possible to keep litter under control and flower beds and grassed areas looking attractive . |
| 26 | With the move to devolved management of schools there is an ever increasing need for the promotion , at school level of internal evaluation as a useful management tool : |
| 27 | About the necessity and effectiveness of surgeries there can in any case be reservations . |
| 28 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 29 | In more recent periods of decades there have been , secondly , many investigations of the impact of human activity for example upon river channels ( Gregory , 1981 ; Park , 1981 ) and of changes during decades rather than millennia . |
| 30 | couple of decades there has been an unparalleled interest in the occult and astrology and Satanism , and witchcraft and society at large , on the one hand it worships at the shrine of science and technology and then it turns and pays its cash , and it does pay its cash , and its homage at the signs of the zodiac , and at the other various things dealing wi or are a part of the occult . |