Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the main characteristics of the Suffolk breed of horse ? |
| 2 | The report , published in April 1991 by a group of educational psychologists employed by Strathclyde , examined the working methods of the Glasgow division of the region 's education department , which contains Scotland 's largest ethnic minority populations . |
| 3 | The report , published in April 1991 by a group of educational psychologists employed by Strathclyde , examined the working methods of the Glasgow division of the region 's education department , which contains Scotland 's largest ethnic minority populations . |
| 4 | On July 24 a bomb exploded outside the offices of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry causing some damage but no casualties . |
| 5 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 6 | On March 3 there were official ceremonies in Sofia ( the capital ) , as well as a rally by over 150,000 supporters of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , representing the culmination of a week of organized protests against the slow pace of democratic reform [ for start of protests on Feb. 25 see p. 37254 ] . |
| 7 | Some of its work was routine , designed to take off the shoulders of the King part of the administrative burden of the realm . |
| 8 | Hard on the heels of the shock defeat of odds-on favourite Sybillin in the Arkle Chase on Tuesday , FitzGerald decided it was not worth risking the outsider in the Gold Cup . |
| 9 | Rather , they make judgements about the fit between particular skills and the constraints , demands and opportunities of the material environment of the classroom ; about the appropriateness of particular styles or techniques for present circumstances . |
| 10 | Hence the puzzle : the biggest and most immediate beneficiaries of the takeover boom of the 1980s — that is , those shareholders who sold to bidders — were retired Americans , present and future . |
| 11 | Twenty-seven days earlier he had , by telephone , moved that same sum out of Liechtenstein and into the secrecy-shrouded computers of the Credit Bank of Zurich . |
| 12 | Unravelling this startling turn of events it transpired that due to the vagaries of the recording mechanism of answering machines my original message had sounded like ‘ died ’ not ‘ resigned ’ . |
| 13 | There are indeed certain aspects of the marriage system of such societies which support this point of view . |
| 14 | The diary also shows other aspects of the household routine of a gentlewoman : managing the estate in her husband 's frequent absences , supervising and paying servants , sorting linen , playing music , gardening , giving medical advice and treatment to neighbours and tenants . |
| 15 | First , and most simply , though it was not at all uncommon for administrators to feel exasperated by Masai obduracy , or disapproving of certain aspects of the Masai way of life ( such as collective fornication throughout the years of early manhood ) , it was rare indeed for one in close contact with them to conceive a personal dislike for them . |
| 16 | In these situations , the partner 's involvement may lead to variations in the operational aspects of the quality assurance of these awards . |
| 17 | Performances of the Everyman production of Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing can be seen at the Huyton Suite in Poplar Bank , Kirkby , on November 19 at 2pm and 7.30pm . |
| 18 | In the words of the Head Missioner of the Birmingham Street Children 's Union : ‘ personal influence , the reaction of character on character , is the only effective force in social or religious reformation ’ . |
| 19 | Further work on MRDs includes Guo 's [ 1989 ] attempts to build a machine tractable dictionary ( MTD ) from the LDOCE , based on the fact that a set of 1,200 words ( known as the Key Defining Vocabulary or KDV ) is found to define the 2,219 words of the core vocabulary of the LDOCE . |
| 20 | The chapter has established , in the words of the HMI study of Denmark , ‘ interesting parallels and differences ’ . |
| 21 | In the words of the Williams Report of 1979 |
| 22 | Using material from the Kwakiutl peoples of the north-west coast of America , Boas showed how the major stylistic features of their material culture , such as an extensive use of bilateral symmetry and the disintegration of animal representations into pattern , could be understood as emerging from the interplay of technology and constraint . |
| 23 | The terms ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ are in almost universal use , but under many different definitions and interpretations , which can lead to different pictures of the class structure of the country . |
| 24 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
| 25 | In London tomorrow the winners of the Spectacle Wearer of the Year Awards will be named . |
| 26 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 27 | In such chants the two leaders re-enact the roles of the creator god of the Piaroa and his sister . |
| 28 | SYNAPTIC potentiation can be divided into two principal categories on the basis of whether or not its induction is blocked by antagonists of the NMDA subtype of glutamate receptor . |
| 29 | One of the demands of the coal group of MPs is for an end to cheap imports , strict regulations on open-cast extraction and reductions in the import of high-priced French-generated electricity . |
| 30 | The first months of the health dispute of 1982 coincided with the Falklands War , but when the war ended public attention returned to it . |