Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The discouraging effects of prolonged unemployment , experience in the labour market with employers and official intermediaries , public statements by political and economic commentators , politicians , and employers about the future of employment are all part of a social process of exclusion , which probably began to set the agenda in the minds of individual older workers in the After Redundancy study even before the redundancy itself took place .
2 Ethel had said something quite else , but Ma had turned on her , and said she was lucky to be healthy , and it was no fault of Lily 's these ideas had overcome her .
3 The burning of waste is another thing which adds to the Greenhouse Effect and can create other forms of atmospheric pollution , such as toxic dioxins and acid rain .
4 The rule of thumb is that height equals reach .
5 A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years .
6 In accepting the Crown 's application , Lord Coulsfield said that the general rule of law was that evidence which was relevant to the issue was admissible unless excluded by some peremptory rule of law .
7 On one side of Moorlake was another house , a little smaller than itself with bay windows and the sign " Antiques " hung over its yellow-painted door .
8 The effect of rescission is that property ( title ) , if it had passed to the buyer , reverts to the seller .
9 The essence of LS-PCR is that amplification is performed using specific primers but under low stringency conditions such as those routinely utilized when undertaking RAPD ( Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA , 3 ) .
10 Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) .
11 The alleged advantage of incorporation is that tax on profits retained within the business can be paid at Corporation Tax rates , 25% in the case of the Small Companies Rate or 33% main rate , rather than Income Tax at the individual 's marginal rate , currently 25% or 40% .
12 Whether and how that might lead to radical change of practice was another issue .
13 An indication of the gradual change of climate was another collection of papers published thirty years after Essays and Reviews .
14 The other finding of note is that debt levels at the time of the buyout , and increases in debt associated with the buyout , are not good predictive measures in judging the potential for success in a transaction .
15 There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial .
16 What kind of name is that Doherty .
17 In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct .
18 The only building of note is All Saints ' church , standing on what is for Holderness an eminence .
19 Deceptive restoration or alteration and embellishment of antiquities is another area of faking .
20 THE retired courtier who coined the Latin phrase ‘ annus horribilis ’ said the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was another blow to the Queen during her ‘ horrible year ’ .
21 Even now , of course , the governor is far from offering a universal franchise : that degree of democracy is some way off .
22 The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication .
23 Closely related to the question of syntax is another feature of difference that has only recently become clear , as linguists have studied " real " as opposed to idealised language data .
24 The related thorny question of abortion was another topic , and Mr. Jenks was cheered when , referring to his work in hospitals , he said : ‘ I have never seen a woman who wanted an abortion , but plenty who felt they had no alternative ’ , citing education to stop unwanted pregnancies as the real solution .
25 One series ( 1684–91 ) , for the benefit of Edward junior , formed the basis of Locke 's Some Thoughts Concerning Education ( 1693 ) .
26 What sort of work were these girls doing for us ? ’
27 What sort of directions are these movements going , then ?
28 What sort of question is that Bill , open or closed ?
29 Artists who might once have worked only on a more conventional sort of picture are this year moving into designing screens as well .
30 That sort of thing was such fun . ’
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