Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [n mass] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that one row can be punched for each pair of rows for electronics and punchcard machines with a double length facility . |
| 2 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 3 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 4 | But the crew agreements for merchant ships involved men in an undertaking ‘ … to conduct themselves in an orderly , honest , careful and sober manner … and to be obedient to the lawful Commands of the Master … ’ .5 Something , somewhere in the story of that series of events in 1839 give us cause to doubt whether the Orynthia 's crew obeyed such injunctions to the letter . |
| 5 | Although a suspense novel consists of that series of situations with doubtful outcomes , the final outcome is not , paradoxically , ever really in doubt . |
| 6 | C Itoh Electronics claims sales of 3,000 units since its release of CIT-XE series of X-terminals in September last year . |
| 7 | Among the effects of the war cited by the team were the decline of the stocks of Gulf prawns and the disappearance of some species of birds from the region . |
| 8 | In a mean of thirty percent of patients across the region there was evidence o well there was written evidence of counselling for retrograde ejaculation and this varied from zero to just under seventy one percent . |
| 9 | Hosts : Ruminants , horses , pigs , rabbits and fowl Site : Small intestine except T. axei and T. tenuis Species : Trichostrongylus axei abomasum of ruminants and stomach of horses and pigs T. colubriformis ruminants T. vitrinus } sheep and goats T. capricola } T. retortaeformis rabbits T. tenuis small intestine and caeca of game birds There are a number of other species of ruminants with more local distribution and importance such as T. rugatus , T. falculatus , T. probolurus and T. longispicularis Distribution : Worldwide Gross : The adults are small and hair-like , usually less than 7.0 mm long and difficult to see with the naked eye . |
| 10 | Time and again in the US we have seen people suffer long-drawn-out deaths plumbed into artificial heart machines or given the hearts of other species of primates in transplant operations . |
| 11 | A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 . |
| 12 | Large-scale improvements to the sewer system are also to be undertaken , with 5,000 km of drains to be built . |
| 13 | The company plans to install fibre transmission lines along 6600 km of railways in the eastern half of the United States . |
| 14 | We are trying to restore the deserts in the Middle East with indigenous species of plants by using another characteristic of mycorrhiza , namely the ability to make plants more drought-resistant and thus easier to establish . |
| 15 | And that was all , except of course for 3 cwt of catalogues from companies we never deal with and which we get sent through the post anyway . |
| 16 | In another series of investigations of artificial pits and wells , Armitage ( 1985 ) has shown that as many as 50–60 individuals can be trapped over relatively short periods . |
| 17 | Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 . |
| 18 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 19 | In published series of patients aged 80 years and over undergoing aortic valve replacement the operative mortality was around 15% ( compared with around 4% for patients under 70 ) . |
| 20 | 7.1.3 Age Concern receives reports from elderly people of difficulties in registering with general practitioners . |
| 21 | A balance can be achieved by exposing the eggs for a moderate time ; for example , a 4 h in vivo exposure accumulates analysable metaphases in 50 80% of embryos at the early morula to early blastocyst stage . |
| 22 | This ratio has been reported in several series of patients with malignant disease taking continuing oral doses of slow release morphine and having satisfactory levels of analgesia : in one series of 40 patients the mean plasma ratio was 5:1 and in another of 151 patients it was 4.5:1 ; in another 40 patients the ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid was 6:1 . |
| 23 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
| 24 | British companies take out 50 to 70 percent of profits in dividends , twice as much as Japan and nearly three times as much for Germany . |
| 25 | The highest single figure is that of Ectona Fibres , of Workington , which has permission to discharge up to 682 kg of metals per day . |
| 26 | Such measures could lead to more sales of euroissues in the US as well as enabling issuance to take place there . |
| 27 | At Ting-Kok migrants such as the grey-rumped sandpiper , who have travelled all the way from Siberia , feed on several species of crabs after their long journey . |
| 28 | The habit of opening milk bottle tops spread through several species of birds by an analogous cultural process . |
| 29 | Tam scrabbled at each pair of legs in turn , remembering the biscuits ; the more uninhibited guests kicked , furtively . |
| 30 | I will go on to look at some developments of the Mannheimian legacy , in particular the work of the social constructionists and at the end of the chapter I shall comment on some aspects of Mannheim 's project affected by this series of responses to his work . |