Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a sense in which the two are related , because sometimes national radio picks up stuff which is done on local radio , and certainly in the B B C network , local , B B C local radio makes a point of actually sending a certain amount of material on a regular basis to national radio , there is this link , and both in terms of personnel and in terms of material . |
| 2 | He was accused of illegal possession of firearms and of embezzlement of public funds . |
| 3 | We shall return to this later in the chapter when we examine the impact of groups and of culture within organisations . |
| 4 | 4.1 Access to most of the collection is by a series of card catalogues and indexes which allow retrieval by subject and author in the case of books and by subject in the case of files . |
| 5 | The prose throughout is animated not only by dozens of animals but by machinery of all sorts : gears , superchargers , power drives , X-ray chambers . |
| 6 | It can usually be found on banks of channels or around pools on the marshes . |
| 7 | THE days of the so-called desirable property with a south facing garden in easy reach of shops but in need of attention to minor repairs are numbered . |
| 8 | It has become the premier institution of higher education in the maintained sector in Wales , and especially since the transfer of responsibility from the DES to the Welsh Office in April 1978 , it has occupied a unique position in that , compared to England with its large number of polytechnics and to Scotland with its three central institutions which are analogous to polytechnics , it is the only polytechnic in Wales . |
| 9 | Second , they risk being used ( misused ) to judge the performance of schools and of teachers in ways which are not in our best interests ( HM Inspectorate presently exists to oversee standards of teachers and schools , and can offer constructive criticism where necessary ; what is wrong with this system ? ) ; |
| 10 | The marriages of Jews and of members of the Society of Friends are exempt from these provisions , and may be celebrated according to the rules of these religious bodies . |
| 11 | Member states were bound by article 1(1) of the Directive to ‘ grant all foreign exchange authorisations required for the conclusion or performance of transactions or for transfers between residents of member states in respect of ’ such capital movements . |
| 12 | Suppose a seller , S , has contracted with A in Aylesbury to sell him 60 cwt. of potatoes and with B in Bristol to sell him 25 cwt. and with C in Cardiff to sell him 15 cwt . |
| 13 | SIGNED by us , two directors of the covenantor or a director and the secretary of the covenantor pursuant to a resolution of the board of directors and in accordance with the covenantor 's Articles of Association : |
| 14 | The philosophical message of Vegetius 's De re militari centred upon the need to defend the common good , and for that need to be met not by the employment of mercenaries but by members of the community adequately prepared to fight . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should be looking at the mental state not of individuals but of society as a whole . |
| 16 | In at least one example , the distinction between goods is more closely related to contradictions within one given set of individuals than to differences between social groups . |
| 17 | Now equally of course organization can stultify progress , enmesh teachers and students alike in a nightmare of regulations and restrictions , tie up materials and equipment that could otherwise be productively used , and generally contribute more to the personal empires of individuals than to liberation of either teachers or students . |
| 18 | The danger in this new drive that is a feature of many advanced industrial societies lies not only in raising unrealistic expectations from these areas of study but also in denigrating the contribution of the social sciences to economic growth and in neglecting the non-economic functions of education which are just as important to the well-being of individuals and of society at large . |
| 19 | Okay , so our modern view then is that evolution is all about the quantitative reproductive success of individuals and in fact of individual genes . |
| 20 | If you require payments on account of costs or in advance of disbursements , or you reserve the right to raise hourly rates during the lifetime of the case , the client must be told at the outset of the case . |
| 21 | However , these figures provide the basis for constructing a large number of variation-sensitive rules both in terms of segments and in terms of features . |
| 22 | Papers of Professor Alastair Fowler , 1962–88 , include manuscripts and typescripts of poems and of works on English literature . |
| 23 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 24 | The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention modified by the revaluation of properties and in accordance with applicable accounting standards . |
| 25 | This requires appreciation , again , of our lack of privileged access to the minds of others and the necessity of assumptions as to evidence of states of mind . |
| 26 | Lack of resources and of help from the government also hampered voter registration , which in August was delayed by three weeks until Sept. 3 . |
| 27 | Sooner or later , one must plump for either the primacy of micro-processes in socio-logical explanation , or for the primacy of macro-processes as in notions of ‘ encapsulation ’ , 'centre and periphery' , ‘ dominance and dependency ’ , Marxist theory , and the like . |
| 28 | This appears to be made up largely of vugs and fractures , although it is not clear whether the ‘ vugs ’ have originated from leaching of evaporites or by brecciation of the carbonates ( Pennington 1975 ) . |
| 29 | These state , ‘ The goodwill of consultants and of principals in general practice to be appointed as educational supervisors is essential if house officers ’ expectations are to be fulfilled . |
| 30 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |