Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another example of regional development has been in the relocation of Government Departments away from the south-east . |
| 2 | The concentration of inhumation cemeteries close to the defences also suggests contraction , though several presumably earlier cremation urns from the same areas might counsel caution . |
| 3 | This success is something to share with the company 's business partners , host economies , shareholders , employees and , of course , drinkers of quality beers all over the world . |
| 4 | In the last few years our understanding of pillow lavas has advanced dramatically , due almost entirely to some remarkable observations made by diver-geologists of pillow lavas actually in the process of formation in the sea off Hawaii . |
| 5 | Indeed the proliferation of Unix implementations now on offer to desktop system users featuring integrated operating system kernels , graphics , iconic interfaces , networking and other components appears to have made the problem even more intractable . |
| 6 | Continued natural gas consumption growth depends on the maintenance of price levels well below oil . |
| 7 | The slamming of car doors and the revving of car engines late at night when customers are leaving would create a further disturbance . |
| 8 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 9 | That was the reduction of interest rates immediately on the back of the stock exchange crash , but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , we were urged to cut them even more by the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 10 | When Mick and Julie Turrell arrived early Friday morning , they were surprised to see several groups of detector users already on site ready to set up their tents . |
| 11 | The Office of Works had already commenced construction of the attractive Well Hall Estate , Eltham ( the design and layout of which owed much to Unwin 's book Town planning in practice ( 1909 ) ) , but the building of munitions plants elsewhere in the country was now promoted . |
| 12 | The objective of these guidelines is to place the cylinder index on the file cylinder that is of lowest possible activity , in such a position that the majority of head movements away from the index will be short . |
| 13 | The report , which therefore predates WAB , will be presented to the University for its consideration and will carry considerable weight because its membership , which comprises a majority of university members together with representatives from public sector higher education , consists of men of influence . |
| 14 | Fitting a sound card to a PC is not a difficult task — we 've covered the installation of expansion cards enough for anyone to be able to do it , and the Laserwave Plus is no exception . |
| 15 | The winter of 1978–9 was the winter of discontent , the discontent of trade unions generally with the guidance contained in the White Paper , published in July 1978 , on pay policy . |
| 16 | Also conceived in the tropics was a model of landscape development which was generated against the background of the seasonally humid tropics rather than the semi-arid , and which was related to weathering profiles and to igneous rocks and the experience of soil scientists together with the benefits of inputs from climatic geomorphology . |
| 17 | In an effort to make the bill more acceptable , its Democratic sponsors included a provision which specifically prohibited the establishment of quotas , defined by its supporters as the hiring of a fixed proportion of minority workers regardless of their qualifications . |
| 18 | Generally , however , the type of camera figures little in Mr Edwards ' way of things . |
| 19 | This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area . |
| 20 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 21 | SuperMac Technology Inc , Sunnyvale , California developing photorealistic colour graphics systems for the publishing and prepress , digital video , and business productivity markets , got its issue of 1m shares away at $16.25 a share and plans to use the $15m or so net proceeds for working capital ; Montgomery Securities , PaineWebber Inc , and Volpe , Welty & Co were the lead underwriters to the issue . |
| 22 | Both play a very clever trick which will answer the prayers of video users all round the world . |
| 23 | South Korea maintained barriers to imports of consumer goods well into the 1980s . |
| 24 | It has brought together expertise in pedagogy , learning resources , library provision and a range of curriculum subjects both at county level and in each school , and this has inevitably been an occasion of staff development and awareness-raising for all those involved . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that since 1979 the Government have introduced more training places and a wider range of training courses both in width and in depth , in a way that has never been attempted before ? |
| 26 | Ask to see the entire range of photograph albums together with any extras you may require such as pocket books and frames . |
| 27 | Use of a tape recorder in an interview is a crude example ; automatic transfer of tree girths directly from the measuring tape to some magnetic storage medium is another . |
| 28 | The eventual winners were the team from the BR Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot in Crewe , closely followed by ‘ The Mainliners ’ , a team of BR drivers also from Crewe . |
| 29 | FIT-AGAIN defenders Tony Humes and Mel Pejic give Wrexham manager Brian Flynn the best sort of selection problems ahead of tonight 's match with Scunthorpe United at the Racecourse . |
| 30 | Outside the castle gates visitors will find one of the finest and most complete circuits of town walls anywhere in Europe — over three quarters of a mile in length with 22 towers and three original gateways . |