Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time , to anything like that extent , parents are liable for the criminal activities of juveniles . |
| 2 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 3 | This was to be the legal basis for the armed detachments of workers who were supposed to confiscate surplus grain and the hoards of speculators . |
| 4 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
| 5 | In addition the development of birth-control techniques provided the opportunity for the above changes of attitudes to be encouraged . |
| 6 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 7 | Many other worthwhile books were , like them , consigned to pulp or book sales because they were simply ‘ irrelevant to the community ’ , so as to make room for the multiple copies of paperbacks from Pluto Press and the like which the community apparently needed more . |
| 8 | This de facto freedom to roam exists in most of Scotland provided that such freedom is accompanied by good countryside manners and respect for the legitimate needs of landowners . |
| 9 | Only one of these studies attempted to control for the possible effects of changes in price volatility on volume , even though two of these studies ( and others ) found some evidence of a positive relationship between volatility and volume . |
| 10 | Always double check releases for the correct spellings of names , places and addresses , brands , lists , ingredients and the like . |
| 11 | Geary ( 1985 ) has examined the historical pattern of industrial confrontation in Great Britain , looking for the distinctive features of periods marked by high or low levels of disorder . |
| 12 | Wearing his other hat of H Buckley and Sons , he was responsible for the 3,000 kilos of potatoes and 700 kilos of onions , some of which had been grown by the pupils of Scissett Middle School as part of their rural studies . |
| 13 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 14 | However , as terraces are usually degraded and as it is usually extremely difficult to determine their precise limits , a degree of accuracy lower than that required for the long profiles of streams is permissible . |
| 15 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 16 | So much for the various qualities of books . |
| 17 | We start by bringing together in a compact and comparative form the key data for the various groups of intermediaries , in Table 4.3 . |
| 18 | The Validation Statistics present totals for the various categories of results . |
| 19 | They are , needless to say , supported by lawyers , economists , mathematicians and other specialists for the relevant parts of courses . |
| 20 | The local resistance raises even more basic questions about the type of destructive development involved in mining : what is the point of destroying a sustainable ecologically-managed way of life for the short-term benefits of outsiders ? |
| 21 | We need to challenge the ideology which claims the market knows best , despite claims that we are coming out of recession , we are still losing thousands of jobs because , as we know all too well , the market will always neglect our nation 's long-term interest for the short-term profits of speculators and asset strippers . |
| 22 | Observation of behaviour is no longer enough , for the cognitive processes of transactions between people and within a person are also essential topics for an ethologist 's exploration . |
| 23 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |
| 24 | In the end , the compromise was to give permission for the new blocks of apartments , but to require that the remains of the grottoes be restored as a feature in the new development . |
| 25 | For the two sets of analyses the findings are similar , but the data overlap . |
| 26 | The little brick-built mill has an internal iron wheel that provides the power for the two sets of stones as well as the various ancillary equipment . |
| 27 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 28 | Nor was there any significant difference in direction of gaze for the two types of questions unless specific items were picked out which apparently reflected most clearly the verbal-spatial distinction . |
| 29 | Buchsbaum and Fedio ( 1970 ) , for example , reported that the visual evoked response to lateralised presentation of words and nonsense patterns differed for the two types of stimuli , most markedly over the left hemisphere . |
| 30 | And , for the current volleys of reforms to hit their targets , several extra initiatives will be required . |