Example sentences of "[coord] of [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any distance up to about a kilometre from the dwelling is of such little moment for any specialised systems of irrigation and garden farming that little adjustment is called for in either the pattern of settlement or of land use . |
| 2 | I do n't think we should say anything to Stephen or Eileen or of course Terry until we know more . |
| 3 | But geographical patterns like this demand the jet-eye view , or of course maps . |
| 4 | They gave each other nicknames — Hayward was known as " Tarantula " because of his sometimes acidulous wit , Morley as " Whale " , Faber as " Coot " , and Eliot as " Elephant " ( because he never forgot ) or of course Possum " . |
| 5 | Thematic articles are likely to be found in two sorts of periodicals , general magazines and academic journals , either interdisciplinary or of specialist disciplines . |
| 6 | The investigation of the flow past obstacles or of boundary layers requires a uniform flow with minimal velocity fluctuations . |
| 7 | of neutrons or of oboe notes |
| 8 | Writing of women , or of sex differences , they frequently switch to psychological or biological levels of explanation . |
| 9 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 10 | This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway . |
| 11 | Conversely , living in an area of less expensive terraced accommodation or of council houses ( estates composed of houses rented from the local authority are common ) reinforces one 's identification with the working class . |
| 12 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 13 | Examples of memes are tunes , ideas , catch-phrases , clothes fashions , ways of making pots or of building arches . |
| 14 | You can process the musical history of the Eighties into any format you like-you could call it the decade of Dance , or of Conscience Rock , or of World Music . |
| 15 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 16 | There was no thought in those days of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or of inheritance tax . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the proportions of congenital abnormalities preventable by secondary and tertiary methods are estimates based on research studies of particular conditions ( for example , ad hoc epidemiological studies for measuring the effectiveness of neonatal orthopaedic screening ) , or regions ( for example , those having excellent ultrasound scanning and trained staff for diagnosing structural defects , or using the triple test for detection of Down 's syndrome ) or of expert groups ( for example , specific postnatal treatment and early paediatric surgery ) . |
| 18 | This will not be a theory of human intelligence or of machine intelligence , it will be a theory of intelligent information processing , no matter whether that is realised in silicon or in tissue . |
| 19 | The Board has taken no decisions about the timing of the reprocessing of subsequent arisings of AGR fuel or of PWR fuel . |
| 20 | Estimates of the numbers in the trade , or of union membership , are necessarily vague before the union began publishing statistics in the mid-1870s . |
| 21 | Anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz or Marshall Sahlins exploring the cultural manifestations of the Balinese or of South Sea islanders projected interpretations of these cultures which could be read as stories the people of these societies tell about themselves . |
| 22 | Select Holidays offers extension tours of Bangalore/Mysore , or of north India , in conjunction with a Goa holiday . |
| 23 | For convenience , the word ‘ merger ’ is used in this chapter for all forms of merger , acquisition and takeover , whether they involve acquisition of controlling or of minority interests in shares or assets . |
| 24 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 25 | Whereas other curriculum examples from this list describe the ways in which teachers will help pupils develop their own skills and perceptions through carefully considered assignments and evaluation procedures , those for the arts , and for art in particular , refer only to influencing pupils ' tastes , with no description of pupil activity or of programme development in the arts . |
| 26 | Everything depends upon the background , character , temperament , and honesty of presidential candidates in the USA , or of party leaders elsewhere . |
| 27 | Roman cities were planned as far as possible symmetrically on a grid system , although in the case of existing towns which they took over , or of hill sites , geographical problems made this difficult . |
| 28 | Common among such problems are those of poor communication leading to distrust or of personality clashes . |
| 29 | The presence of free ammonia or of protein material is almost always an indication of contamination of the water with sewage or trade effluents , such as gas liquor . |
| 30 | However , while they remain in the hands of farmers , and while agricultural workers are completely dependent on their employers not only for their jobs but also for housing and education , there can be little hope of real improvement or of community involvement . |