Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | More fundamentally … welfare pluralists can not escape opening wider the door to privatisation by the support for the commercial sector inherent in their advocacy of a plurality of sources of welfare . |
| 32 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 33 | Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike . |
| 34 | This project aims to investigate the intonation structures of a variety of languages of different types , particularly with regard to these interactions with tonal and accentual features . |
| 35 | Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind . |
| 36 | The list is composed of a variety of types of problem including those traditionally accepted as legal by both lawyer and client , those regarded as legal by lawyers but not necessarily by clients and those not normally viewed by either as legal . |
| 37 | The Germans have thus had the choice of a variety of packages of measures for use in various situations . |
| 38 | In two experiments combining total sleep deprivation , Stage REM deprivation and Stage 4 sleep deprivation , Julie Moses and others at the US Navy Health Research Center in San Diego have compared the effects of a variety of regimes of total and selective sleep deprivation on recovery sleep and performance . |
| 39 | ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history . |
| 40 | His research into Sign Languages also laid the foundation for the compilation of a dictionary of signs of British Sign Language . |
| 41 | The preparation and compilation of budgetary plans will require the development of a set of estimates of future revenues and costs . |
| 42 | Where the boundaries of the outside world are located at any instant will depend upon the social actor 's possession and manipulation of a set of competences of varied quality . |
| 43 | Rosenau 's ‘ pre-theory ’ consists of a set of definitions of the sources of foreign policy , three measures of the type of state ( size , economic development , and political system ) and two analytical dimensions ( issue areas and permeability ) , which together define a matrix for investigating foreign policy . |
| 44 | Thus surface dyslexia is one of a set of syndromes of acquired dyslexia , just as Broca 's aphasia is one of a set of syndromes of acquired aphasia . |
| 45 | Thus surface dyslexia is one of a set of syndromes of acquired dyslexia , just as Broca 's aphasia is one of a set of syndromes of acquired aphasia . |
| 46 | Thus the group conceived of a set of hierarchies of learning for all National Curriculum subjects . |
| 47 | An outstanding example of this is given in Tate 's ( 1984 ) study of a group of Rastafarians of Dominican descent in Bradford . |
| 48 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
| 49 | The last case of the taking of such an oath seems to be the despatch in the 1770s of a group of representatives of the Swiss cantons to Paris to swear to the observance of an agreement just made with the French government . |
| 50 | It 's one of a succession of stories of the way that God clearly showed His power through His prophet . |
| 51 | Indians wrote no historical books with numerical dates and regarded personal life as one of a succession of lives of the same individual repeated infinitely often in endless time . |
| 52 | Only by realising that a painting is much more than one facet of a face , that it is a distillation of a multitude of images of a person , have recent audiences come to see its worth once more . |
| 53 | In the brain , the olfactory system appears to be composed of a sequence of layers of nodes with no obvious geometric structure . ) |
| 54 | Instead it has to be made up of a band of waves of different wavelengths , cunningly chosen to cancel each other out outside the region of width unc and to reinforce each other inside it . |
| 55 | Collection of a library of photographs of known and unfamiliar faces that can then be selected on the basis of being of a similar degree of familiarity , of similar appearance , or of similar occupation . |
| 56 | Under its terms legislative authority is vested in a bicameral popularly elected Congress consisting of a House of Representatives of up to 250 members and a 24-member Senate . |
| 57 | Alun Morgan and Dr Jon Saunders of the department of genetics and microbiology at the University of Liverpool , working with Dr Roger Pickup of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , Windermere , form one of a number of groups of scientists developing techniques to spot a GEM . |
| 58 | Until well into the nineteenth century the nation 's coalminers were not regarded as a race apart , living and working in closely-knit communities dominated by the colliery 's winding gear and huge , ugly muck stacks , but merely as one of a number of groups of village craftsmen and labourers . |
| 59 | Althusser 's influence declined in France after 1968 , partly as a result of the role played by the PCF , of which Althusser was a member , in the events of May 1968 , and partly as an effect of a number of critiques of his work , some of them by Althusser himself . |
| 60 | But the authorities of the cat world do seem to have their eyes firmly fixed on possible dangers , and we can hope for a much greater restraint than has existed in the case of a number of breeds of dog . |