Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being highly centralized , the British system has not been to have powerful centres outside London from which groups of services can be conducted for that area , but to administer each of the important functions of government from Whitehall for the whole of the country . |
| 2 | But what was lacking to underpin a choice between the two was agreement among clinicians about which groups of patients could be treated and/or cared for successfully outside the asylum . |
| 3 | But such a response implies that next period their stocks of goods will be lower than they feel is optimal , and they will therefore want to build them up again by producing more next period than they otherwise would . |
| 4 | If the trend goes on , their teams of congratulators will be calling fewer and fewer people , more and more often — until the remaining subscribers are always engaged , because they are always being congratulated . |
| 5 | Except where there are more than 20 partners ( including persons held out as partners ) , the names of the partners must be shown legibly on all business letters , written orders for goods or services , invoices and receipts sent out by the firm ; an address at which service of documents may be effected on the firm and its partners must also be shown ; and a full list of the partners with that same address must be displayed in a prominent position in each of the firm 's offices . |
| 6 | The famous social scientist , D. T. Campbell , once proposed a more naturalistic experiment , in which scores of towns would be selected and formed into two groups at random , the newspapers in each town would be persuaded to take part in the experiment by publishing phoney articles about the state of candidates , and comparisons would be made at the end between the two groups of towns ( Campbell 1951 ) . |
| 7 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 8 | I like to stroke my fruit and vegetables ; discuss various cuts of meat and study the poultry ; ask the fishmonger 's advice ; potter around the cheese counter ; decide which bunch of herbs would be best ; in fact , anything to delay the actual moment of entry into the kitchen — the point of no return ! |
| 9 | They declared that they both agreed on the need for further reductions in their respective nuclear stockpiles , but that they had not yet agreed on which types of weapons should be reduced and the speed of reductions . |
| 10 | The Government has been anxious to find a slot for such legislation but has not acted yet , partly because of a full parliamentary timetable and because of technical difficulties in defining which types of weapons should be outlawed . |
| 11 | Sometimes his collection of gnomes would be on display , and every anniversary was commemorated by faded buff photographs and artefacts . |
| 12 | Exceptions to the above will be made where the opportunity has been obtained by KPMG from another intermediary , in which case his scale of charges will be substituted and KPMG 's interest , if any , in such a charge will be notified to the acquiror . |
| 13 | It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme . |
| 14 | Redlands has sold around fifty disused sites around the country for similar schemes in the last decade and insists they would take local people 's needs into account in deciding what kind of houses would be built . |
| 15 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 16 | What kind of clothes should be worn . |
| 17 | What kind of things will be important for the background to mention it do you think ? |
| 18 | If this is the case in Australia what kind of controls can be expected in the impoverished Philippines ? |
| 19 | Sue : What kind of organisations will be involved in setting up Community Action projects ? |
| 20 | It will be necessary to see how far it is possible to go along with a strict criterion-referenced system or what kind of compromises may be worked out if such a system has advantages of motivating pupils and aiding changes in curriculum . |
| 21 | Nor should it be noted does the 1958 Public Record Act actually lay down what sorts of records should be preserved and why . |
| 22 | What type of collocations should be included ? |
| 23 | Nor is it possible to say what percentage of cases might be attributable to food , because nobody has even attempted to find out . |
| 24 | Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ? |
| 25 | They can not tell us in any detail what kinds of investigations might be prompted by such conceptions , or how they may be carried out , what concepts and theories are relevant , and so on . |
| 26 | According to observers , the compromise agreed at Houston was acceptable to the EC countries because it recognized the special nature of EC farming as mainly family based ( rather than corporate-based as in the USA ) , while the USA could be satisfied because the agreement spelled out what kinds of subsidies should be reduced . |
| 27 | What , what sort of things would be delivered erm ? |
| 28 | ‘ And what sort of things will be you painting ? ’ |
| 29 | There , there 's quite a variety er of low alcohol drinks available now , what sort of things will be on offer there ? |
| 30 | What sort of adaptations would be required ? |