Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The systematic publication of coins from excavations began only in the twentieth century , and one of the most substantial early publications was of the coins recovered during the American excavations at Sardis in Asia Minor . |
| 2 | University regulations on the deposit of copies of theses vary considerably , even within single countries such as Britain . |
| 3 | That this is the correct interpretation of the role of words in trusts emerges more clearly in the next section . |
| 4 | Some feminist therapy offers a pick-and-mix set of opportunities for women to become more effective , in work and relationships , on the board , at the sink , or wherever personal or social inclination puts them . |
| 5 | Nimbly dodging cars , vans and packs of youngsters on bicycles streaming homewards for their midday meal , the Frenchwoman skipped across and shook Melissa energetically by the hand . |
| 6 | The numbers of Indians at stations did indeed become an index of the distance the American traveller had journeyed westwards . |
| 7 | It is not , perhaps , surprising that the solution of the Conservative lawyers in their pamphlet , Rough Justice , to the same problem of unmet legal need was the introduction of subsidies for practitioners operating privately in deprived areas and an extension of the assistance given by lawyers to voluntary advice agencies . |
| 8 | In 1990 and 1991 , however , reports of isolates from men increased fivefold ( fig 2 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It is hard to believe that poverty stalks the land when even the poorest fifth of families with children spend nearly a tenth of their income on alcohol and tobacco ’ , was Mr Moore 's dismissive conclusion . |
| 10 | A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) . |
| 11 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |
| 12 | Reorganising paint manufacture and distribution is an important priority , as trade barriers come down and the movement of goods across borders becomes easier . |
| 13 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 14 | Around 12 per cent of households with children contain only one parent . |
| 15 | A group of youths on motor-scooters roared past , but otherwise few people were about . |
| 16 | But there are plenty of instances of priests living openly with their wives . |
| 17 | In many cases , this association of boundaries with mills means either that the mills were in existence when the boundaries were defined ( thus indicating an increased number of Anglo-Saxon mill sites and a more extensive interference with river courses than we formerly thought ) , or that special arrangements were made to alter parish boundaries when new mills were built . |
| 18 | This replacement of whites by non-whites derives partly from the general pattern of international population exchanges reigning since the late 1940s , with net outflows of British citizens and net inflows of residents from the former colonial territories . |
| 19 | It was composed , in fact , of quotes from lecturers identified only by their first names , who recalled difficult situations they had quite innocently — got into . |
| 20 | This measure of increases in men working away from home is unduly conservative but is the closest possible from census data , being the numbers of men in these industries who were working outside their local government district of residence in 1981 minus all men in the construction industry in 1971 , expressed as a percentage of economically active men in 1981 . |
| 21 | The proportion of pupils with statements varies widely across the country , partly because of the LEAs ' differing policies on ‘ statementing ’ , but overall stands at some 1.7 per cent of the total population of statutory school age , with just over a fifth of these in ordinary rather than special schools . |
| 22 | By the end of the century , a pattern emerged through Europe of societies of artists breaking away from official organisations , creating seceding groups , of which one in Austria adopted the word as a title , Sezession . |
| 23 | In 1977 13 per cent of births to women married once only were third births , but among remarried women 24 per cent of births were third births . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 25 | While the number of students in universities remained virtually unchanged between 1982 and 1986 , the polytechnics accepted the equivalent of 34,000 extra full time students . |
| 26 | Two neurology departments where registries of outpatients are maintained ( Western General Hospital , Edinburgh , and Ninewells Hospital , Dundee , together serving about 20–25% of the Scottish population ) allowed scrutiny of records of patients aged less than 73 years with a diagnosis of dementia . |
| 27 | At face value , decentralisation of services into communities seems eminently sensible , and reference centres have been effective in some countries . |
| 28 | In 1988 , 32% of women with children aged under 3 were working ( 21% part-time , 11% full-time ) compared with 73% with a youngest child aged 10 or over ( 43% part-time , 30% full-time ) ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 29 | ( 1970 ) , working in the Dry Valleys oasis area of McMurdo Sound ( and using techniques that would later be used for detecting life on Mars ) , reported small populations of bacteria in samples taken even from the driest and least promising areas . |