Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a major review of the selection of biological sites of national importance to nature conservation in Britain ( Ratcliffe , 1977b ) , Outer Hebridean sites are discussed in their national context with regard to botany among other aspects . |
| 2 | Our estimate of the percentage of multiparasitized nests containing more than one egg of the same female at Guadix is close to that given by Soler , but significantly lower than that obtained at Santa Fe ( Table 1 ) . |
| 3 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |
| 4 | Thus , 534–6 ( Subsonic vibrations ) provides -6 which can be applied with 534.63 ( Measurement of frequency ) to give 534.63–6 ( Measurement of the frequency of subsonic vibrations ) . |
| 5 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 6 | The outcome is crucial to the future of Ferranti in the wake of the discovery of bogus contracts at its ISC Technologies subsidiary which forced the group to write off more than £200million . |
| 7 | The outcome is crucial to the future of Ferranti in the wake of the discovery of bogus contracts at its ISC Technologies subsidiary which forced the group to write off more than £200million . |
| 8 | This chain theory collapsed partly through its own incoherence under pressure — how do we know when we have got all the links ? — and partly because of the discovery of past faunas . |
| 9 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 10 | As part of our campaign , we are carrying out a detailed survey of the incidence of different types of abuse and the need for legal reform . |
| 11 | Of those families with documented familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , however , only about half have identifiable mutations related to the β-myosin heavy chain gene , and little is known of the incidence of genetic abnormalities in non-familial cases . |
| 12 | One reason for this is lack of awareness of the scale of the problem and the research will start by documenting this in terms of the incidence of ex-directory numbers . |
| 13 | Yet the estimates of the incidence of lone-parent families as used in various formulae for the 1985/6 GRE assessment are mutually inconsistent and also inconsistent with the estimates used in 1983/4 . |
| 14 | RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley , whose warning of the threat of loyalist bomb-attacks in the Republic has alarmed Dublin , and Garda Commissioner Patrick Culligan were also present . |
| 15 | I would therefore advise against taking any kind of drugs , not just because it is unsporting , or because of the threat of severe penalties on discovery , but also because of the adverse effects any drug regime has on the mind and body . |
| 16 | Following discussion of the settlement of private claims for compensation for thalidomide children , a special fund was set up to help other congenitally handicapped children . |
| 17 | Discussing the need for greater student mobility and the advantages of unit courses for a ‘ national degree system ’ , the Dean of the Faculty of Educational Studies at the Open University suggested that the basis of a unit-based , credit transfer system already existed since ‘ inside the CNAA we already have one of the elements required : that , we have a national degree system . |
| 18 | The aim of the evening is to enable members of Convocation to learn more about the interests of the Faculty of Social Sciences and to become aware of its plans and proposals for the future . |
| 19 | The Programme of the Faculty of Social Sciences , which is a section of the University Calendar , outlines the ‘ normal curriculum ’ for all degrees . |
| 20 | Hitherto dean of the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia University in Tokyo , she had served from 1976 to 1978 as a diplomat in Japan 's UN mission , and subsequently chaired the executive board of the UN Children 's Fund . |
| 21 | The extent of exploitation of one valuable fur-bearer by another , to the detriment of commercial hunting , led to a close examination of the interrelationship of these animals . |
| 22 | It highlighted all the issues of the unhealthiness of industrial towns , of poverty , bad housing and squalid environments . |
| 23 | AIDS patients have swollen lymph nodes ( these are the sites of antibody production and of the removal of invading organisms ) . |
| 24 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 25 | For this reason it is desirable that there should be a continuing programme of tests of the stability of all products in regular production . |
| 26 | The Nigerian Standard , owned by the plateau State Government , took up this theme in an editorial which described the reports as the ‘ handwork of some adventurers ’ and claimed that certain western nations were envious of the stability of African states and the cordial relations they enjoyed with one another . |
| 27 | Herak 's chilling account of the fate of Muslim women being held prisoner in a motel in Vogosca , six miles north of Sarajevo , has been broadcast repeatedly on Sarajevo television . |
| 28 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 29 | The Irish Distillers case is another practical example of the operation of interim measures . |
| 30 | The polytechnics were from this point onwards to have greater opportunities for development than other colleges , as a result of the operation of two factors . |