Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statements issued by the PLO during January were highly critical of the Baker plan and of the pace of peace negotiations in general . |
| 2 | Eric Wood 's stark appraisal of the pace of reform programmes came at York , where he became president of the 2,000-member National Association of Educational Inspectors , Advisers and Consultants . |
| 3 | They found a significant difference between the two areas in terms of the percentage of breeding pairs with no eggs or eggshells of inferior quality ( e.g. very thin , granular , porous , fragile , without coloured spots ) . |
| 4 | If , as intimated earlier , the proportion of asymptomatic recurrences was greater in the active treatment group , this could also lead to bias , and underestimation of the frequency of cisapride recurrences relative to placebo . |
| 5 | He also knew of the discovery of gold rings and chains . |
| 6 | In 1920s Preston , for example , electoral support for the party increased , not out of sympathy with the defeat of the general strike , but rather because , with a loosening of the hold of trade unions and mobilisation of female and neighbourhood support , the party turned to ‘ consumer-oriented statist policies ’ ( ibid. p 179 ) . |
| 7 | Fixed investment is expected to be flat this year and up 2.9 per cent next , both a significant improvement on the last forecast , and even consumer spending is now expected to grow by 1.2 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent next , in spite of the threat of tax increases . |
| 8 | This man wo n't reveal his surname because of the threat of letter bombs and hate mail , but is angry about the auction . |
| 9 | After the judgment , Price Waterhouse issued a statement saying that it had acted in good faith according to its understanding of the conflict of interest rules at the time . |
| 10 | Dr J Tait of the Faculty of Technology Systems at the Open University was appointed as Co-ordinator for the Programme , with responsibility for the development of the Programme . |
| 11 | Company relocation policies generally cover the cost of the removal of household goods to the new location . |
| 12 | For instance , the BBC 's policy states : ‘ the reasonable cost of the removal of household goods , excluding domestic animals and such items as motor vehicles , outbuildings , boats , etc. will be reimbursed ’ . |
| 13 | This is a valuable technique for the study of the fate of epiblast cells invaginating through the primitive streak or for the migration of neural crest cells ( 24 ) . |
| 14 | strict control of the operation of washout valves , e.g. locked closed |
| 15 | Will the bicycles be kept under lock and key during the night stops I wanted to know , mindful of the problem of bike thieves . |
| 16 | It was founded in 1928 as " Joint Examination Board " , for initially it consisted of representatives of the Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb and of the Council of Church Missioners of the Deaf . |
| 17 | To quote Mortgage Finance Monthly , the monthly newsletter of the Council of Mortgage Lenders ( tel : 071–437 0655 ) : ‘ Advertisers that sell other services , typically an endowment policy or general insurance , will have to make clear to prospective borrowers that a mortgage is available whether or not other services are also taken from the lender . ’ |
| 18 | Those lending institutions that responded echoed the principled opposition of the Council of Mortgage Lenders to any cap and to the suggestion that a distinction could be draw between private and other clients . |
| 19 | Perception of the well-being of landscape qualities is a rather different matter . |
| 20 | An analysis by Reddaway ( 1977 ) of the period 1961–71 showed that this view was wide of the mark ; only 3 per cent of the purchase of motor cars and television sets in this period was attributable to population increase . |
| 21 | In particular those earning between £20,000 and £30,000 will feel the impact of the freezing of tax allowances and the married couples ' allowance , the reduction of MIRAS relief to 20p in the pound and the increased tax on dividend income . |
| 22 | Schmidt explains the group 's ability to maintain this very homogeneous mixed code , the norms of which are apparently pragmatically determined , in terms of the capacity of closeknit networks to exert normative pressures upon individuals . |
| 23 | It was back in 1939 that Frederic Joliot and his colleagues demonstrated the possibility of the fission of uranium atoms in a chain reaction and , along with Francois Perrin , filed the first two French patents on nuclear reactors . |
| 24 | The total area planted fell from 30,000 to 20,000 hectares , however — largely as a result of the ending of tax incentives . |
| 25 | The impact of the ending of job opportunities in an overcrowded London , combined with the effect of the Speenhamland system of subsidising wages under the old Poor Law , produced an underpaid , stable , demoralised and pauperised work force by the early nineteenth century which reached its maximum income relatively early . |
| 26 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 27 | The herbaceous Paeonias are part of the glory of flower borders in the early summer . |
| 28 | But unemployment can be an unreliable indicator of the tightness of labour markets . |
| 29 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 30 | Sites then began to be linked on the basis of the type of stone tools that they produced , and on some sites different types of stone tools were found in superimposed layers . |