Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next . |
| 2 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |
| 3 | Another feature of the courts reorganization was that the Department was no longer located only in London . |
| 4 | The essence of the systems approach is that personnel decisions should proceed in parallel with engineering decisions , partly to economise on development time and partly to provide scope for trade-offs . |
| 5 | The thrust of the prosecutions case is that Mr How , who had offices in Gloucester , Cheltenham and Worcester , used money which his clients believed to be safely invested , to pay for high risk property deals , which fell through causing his customers to lose almost two million pounds betwen them . |
| 6 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 7 | One of the key points of the Children Act being that gone are the days of parents ' rights . |