Example sentences of "[det] of the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extreme case of a rise of 5–6 m in sea level , the USA would lose most of its southern coastal lowlands including half of the state of Florida . |
| 2 | The requirement that the consignor 's name be stated was only half of the document of title equation . |
| 3 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 4 | ‘ I had a phone call from Mr. Mendelson. ’ — the solicitor — ‘ He asked me if I would agree to accept half of the stock of Mr. Mahmoud on condition that I would not go to court against him . |
| 5 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 6 | Since women constitute rather more than half of the population of Britain , discussions of their social position will be found in all of the other chapters of this book . |
| 7 | Now 700 000 people , nearly half of the population of Northern Ireland , live within 20 km of central Belfast . |
| 8 | Over half of the population of Pinner , an agricultural village in 1851 , were born elsewhere ( Kirkman 1985 ) . |
| 9 | were some of the directors of P L C also directors of developments ? |
| 10 | The general regulation of economic and social life at the national level , and relations with other nation states , require a complex apparatus of government and administration , parties with broadly formulated aims and policies , and competition between parties ; but there is also a need for more direct and immediate means of political action , which would allow the effective expression of particular grievances and interests , counter some of the consequences of centralization and bureaucratic administration and make possible a more continuous practical participation by large numbers of citizens in determining the quality of their lives . |
| 11 | Erm what I 've mentioned then on the handout is some stuff about um er the business of traumagenic dynamics and the possibility that some of the consequences of child sex abuse cold be thought of as as er post-traumatic stress disorder . |
| 12 | While the basic nineteenth-century response to poverty was to try to strengthen older institutions , some of the consequences of urbanization and industrialization posed problems for which entirely new responses were necessary . |
| 13 | Some of the consequences of vision screening will be in the area of correction or remediation as well as in identifying problems with sight and influencing educational placements . |
| 14 | Though some of the effects of competition , particularly on the BBC , were beneficial , others were not . |
| 15 | It 's the part that can be told in an article which is tracing some of the effects of heterosexism . |
| 16 | The insulin like growth factors are thought to mediate some of the effects of growth hormone on tissues . |
| 17 | Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) : |
| 18 | Some of the effects of caerulein infusion have been reproduced in this study by exogenous platelet activating factor and the results indicate that platelet activating factor administered in a single dose by itself can induce pancreatitis with typical enlargement of the pancreas and inflammatory changes in the tissue as well as in the increase in plasma amylase concentration . |
| 19 | Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English . |
| 20 | Some of the effects of loss can be explored by using the idea of suffering . |
| 21 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 22 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 23 | Assessing his impact on the reading public , Graham Greene wrote that he had ‘ some of the qualities of Dr Johnson — a plainness , an honesty , a sense of ordinary life going on all the time ’ . |
| 24 | Her account has some of the qualities of myth in validating shared beliefs and providing a charter for social action . |
| 25 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 26 | Provision would be made for the possible transfer of other functions at a later date , ( e.g. The assessments of means , decisions on the grant of criminal legal aid , and at least some of the determinations of bills now carried out in the courts ) . |
| 27 | Some of the moons of Jupiter are enormous . |
| 28 | Chatterbox is full of activities that help children assimilate some of the patterns of English — and encourage them to think and communicate on the way ! |
| 29 | Hicks describes some of the limitations of co-citation measures as being the delayed inception of clusters , and inconsistent definitions of subject and keyword terms . |
| 30 | The Whigs , however , were responsive to some of the movements of change and responsible in relation to the rest . |