Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crimes , mental illnesses , or cases of child abuse for that matter , are not simply ‘ waiting ’ to be recognised and managed by various officials and then explained by ‘ experts ’ . |
| 2 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 3 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 4 | Peru , Bolivia and Colombia opposed US proposals , made at a preparatory meeting in Quito , Ecuador , in early February , to allow aircraft or warships of member countries of a " regional conference and action group " to enter each other 's territory , sea or airspace in pursuit of drug traffickers . |
| 5 | These projects can involve exchanges between students of member states or periods of work experience in another European country . |
| 6 | Mount your picture with stamp hinges or pieces of masking tape on corners or top edge . |
| 7 | You have n't gone for the Enigmatic or Hordes Of Locusts style of material . |
| 8 | But urban sprawl and rural decay and disfigurement was often taking place in areas where local authorities were weak and where traditions of council control over development had not yet been established . |
| 9 | Compact activities may be coordinated by people from Education or Industry and this may mean reallocation of responsibilities or modifications of job descriptions for some education authority personnel . |
| 10 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 11 | The customer 's prior written consent must also be obtained in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Before the firm deposits collateral with , pledges , charges or grants of security arrangement over the collateral to a third party ; ( 2 ) If the firm reserves the right to return collateral other than the original collateral or original type of collateral . |
| 12 | Or boxes of writing paper with daffodils or roses on them . |
| 13 | Gray ( 1982 ) has indicated that programmes of health education amongst older people ‘ can make a significant contribution to the promotion of a healthy life ’ . |
| 14 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 15 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 16 | The survey revealed that concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in London , Birmingham , Edinburgh and Cardiff exceeded the EC safety levels of 40 parts per billion . |
| 17 | And there would be an outcry because it is now a basic principle of parliamentary democracy that parties of government stand in all constituencies across the state . |
| 18 | Chapter 3 described how Skinner attempted to circumvent the thorny problem of mentalistic descriptions of language by insisting that descriptions of language focus on observable language behaviour . |
| 19 | There is , however , no way of overcoming the objection that analyses of Seascale data for this period are not amenable to any rigorous statistical evaluation because the area , age group , and types of disease to be studied were selected as a result of the observed clustering of cases . |
| 20 | And in the Republic , it is being alleged that imports of building materials from Northern Ireland are threatening hundreds of jobs in the southern border counties . |
| 21 | And in the Republic , it is being alleged that imports of building materials from Northern Ireland are threatening hundreds of jobs in the southern border counties . |
| 22 | Applicants deluged the NME with calls claiming that promises of replacement tickets for Morrissey 's December 19 shows at The Alexandra Palace had not been met by the organisers . |
| 23 | It should be noted that counts of breeding pairs of this species must be made early in the year to be accurate . |
| 24 | But from others , a clear hint that fears of drug abuse at the site were not unwarranted . |
| 25 | Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers . |
| 26 | Although studies of radiation workers in this country show , in fact , that they experience fewer cancer deaths than the general population . |
| 27 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 28 | He described the March 3 attack as an " aberration " , although transcripts of radio conversations between the police officers involved and their control included references to other violent incidents and contained a number of derogatory racial remarks . |
| 29 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 30 | Word of his prowess with the chanthu had spread , Alexei knew , and quarrels were seldom more than exchanges of acid words as a result , because were he to be challenged the choice of weapons would be his . |