Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I know that there have been improvements , but as I represent part of the country where the climate is meteorologically colder , I know that there is a great deal of scope of increases in the support that we provide for heating allowances for our elderly population .
2 It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow .
3 Since these experiences will have been in the schools in which the workshop teachers teach , it is obvious that there will be a great deal of sharing of ideas before the actual presentations and their subsequent discussions take place .
4 A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement .
5 In appreciation of gifts of materials from two firms with operations in Shropshire we are pleased to include our first ever advertisements .
6 Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test .
7 The preservation of laminated biogenic sediments is currently understood to be the result of inhibition of benthos by low concentrations of dissolved oxygen either in anoxic silled basins ( such as the Black Sea or California Borderland Basins ) , or beneath zones of strong upwelling , where an oxygen minimum layer intersects the shelf or slope ( such as off Peru or within the Gulf of California ) .
8 The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment .
9 It has been shown that the colonic epithelium obtains much of its energy supply from fatty acids , particularly butyrate , which are present in the colonic lumen as a result of fermentation of carbohydrates by bacteria .
10 Whether these findings were a result of stagnation of secretions with increased CCK release in the afferent jejunal loop , a changed alkaline gastric content , or both is unclear .
11 We have already seen how the study of sequences of tone-units in the speech of one speaker can reveal information carried by intonation which would not have been recognised if intonation was analysed only at the level of individual tone-units .
12 The main difference is in the language used to describe what is responsible for that residuum : for determinists it is the variability of constellations of causes in individual cases ; for indeterminists it is our ability to choose not to be predictable .
13 One account describes the impalement of scores of men on wooden stakes , where they were left to die along the side of the roads leading to Belgrade .
14 They did , however , include the first number of Veterinary Transactions , containing observations on the effect of treatment of wounds of joints and other circumscribed cavities .
15 There are various entries in Green 's diaries setting himself a timetable for the completion of series of plates for his publications : -
16 ( 8 ) The term of office of members of a licensing board shall begin with the day of their election under subsections ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) above and shall end on the day of the next election of members of the licensing board , but any member of a board shall be eligible for re-election .
17 Replacement of the process of the renewal of approval of courses by progress review visits .
18 We have not filtered the annual data to avoid both a subjective decision on filter characteristics and the inflation of explained variance at the expense of loss of degrees of freedom .
19 Erm , maintenance of rights of ways in Southwell , item thirteen .
20 The problem is going to be the sheer weight of administration of schemes like this , and that 's going to make it very difficult for the small firm , because the solicitor sitting at his desk is his own manager , his own salesman and his own factory floor worker .
21 Section 2(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a contract of sale of goods as : ‘ a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration , called the price . ’
22 ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’
23 ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’
24 In this study it was also confirmed that the fast eye movements were associated with passages of vivid dreaming involving tracking of moving images , but the measured direction of movement of the eyes did not correspond very well with reports of direction of movement of objects in the dream .
25 When a current is applied to the gold film , direction of spin of electrons in the device can be switched up or down .
26 Many of the claims of the developing world , especially those relating to the establishment of a new international economic order , fall into the category of articulation of needs for economic development .
27 There were persistent allegations on UNITA 's radio service in the early part of June of attacks on UNITA officials and supporters .
28 The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole .
29 The researchers will follow the progress of samples of complaints through the internal channels , and will interview those who deal with them .
30 The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department .
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