Example sentences of "[is] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's a couple of hours of good telly on tonight . |
| 2 | There 's a couple of mates of mine Obey . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ It 's a question of definitions of purpose of establishment in a tough fashion — it can not be anything else — of priorities . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's a lad with bags of confidence and was quick to let me know that he 'd scored on his debut and I had n't . |
| 5 | There 's a host of factors of that kind which in fact kept the er conflicts to a minimum i in terms of their extent , in terms of the , the damage they did . |
| 6 | There 's a discrepancy of points of view as to what was said . |
| 7 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 8 | But in Hollywood there 's a mini-fad for adaptations of literary classics . |
| 9 | So there was , there 's a lot of sections of the community out , out there in terms of the business community , who have actually indicated that the County Council should be spending more in terms of economic development not less , and they criticized the Commission in terms of identifying some of the reductions which they have made erm , as part of this year 's budget alone . |
| 10 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 11 | The reference to ‘ the Principles ’ is a reference to statements of principle issued by S.I.B . |
| 12 | This book is a must for students of Welsh culture and architecture . |
| 13 | The author makes extensive use of Wedgwood 's letters and memoranda and the book is a must for collectors of Wedgwood ware . |
| 14 | Lurking behind these measures , therefore , is a congerie of theories of economic growth and/or development most applicable to the United States and other similar industrial economies . |
| 15 | Its relativity is a function of degrees of cultural affinity , the extent to which the informing disposition of the researcher is shared by others within the community to which he belongs . |
| 16 | In the UK the spread of infection has slowed down but the numbers ill and needing care are continuing to rise and this is a reflection of levels of infection some years ago . |
| 17 | There is , however , a suggestion that there is a hierarchy of vortices of different sizes , of which the thinnest are the most apparent in flow visualization . |
| 18 | Here is a selection of characteristics of effective RE which I have heard many times . |
| 19 | The following is a selection from Allegories of Reading of propositions implicated in this oscillation between the poles of paraphrase and free-standing theory : Each of these propositions is demonstrably embedded in the same ambiguous modality as de Man 's presentation of Proust . |
| 20 | Unless there is a transfer of resources of the dimension that is necessary in terms of trade agreements and aid , we are not beginning to tackle the problem of economic migration , which I forecast will be the greatest problem that Europe and other parts of the world will face over the next 50 years . |
| 21 | Muhammad Ali Memories ( Rizzoli International Publications Pounds 17.95 ) is a celebration in pictures of the career of the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time . |
| 22 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |
| 23 | In spite of impersonalised relationships , there is a propensity amongst members of an organisation to defend each other against outside pressures . |
| 24 | It is a help to members of the media if they know the responsibility of the contact ( eg organiser , development officer , secretary etc ) . |
| 25 | Coats of arms are described according to rules known as blazon , a term which when used as a noun is a description in words of a coat and , when as the verb ‘ ( to ) blazon ’ , the act of so describing . |
| 26 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 27 | Then there is a range of measurements of the functioning of the physiological systems of the animal ; we can make measurements which tell us how hard a time the animal is having trying to cope with the conditions which are imposed upon it . |
| 28 | As Roth says , the film is a meditation on codes of honour , on professional and personal loyalties . |
| 29 | The learner 's search space is a space of sets of definitions , in some suitable description language , and the goal is a set of succinct definitions which partition the training set suitably . |
| 30 | The only extra sound-proofing on the breeze blocks between his room and mine is a couple of layers of paint , which is probably why Yvonne was being quiet . |