Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The less-favoured farming areas shall include mountain areas , in which farming is necessary to protect the countryside , particularly for reasons of protection against erosion or in order to meet leisure needs ; they shall also include other areas where the maintenance of a minimum population or the conservation of the countryside are not assured . ’ |
| 2 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 3 | I find it extraordinary ( sour grapes ? ) that the law adjustments made for reasons of safety in the later rounds should be considered a matter for enquiry by some absentees from the event . |
| 4 | For reasons of continuity from the old , a fundamental unit of data in the new hyper-medium is a document . |
| 5 | While Hartlepool are looking upwards , towards Newcastle and Sunderland in the new First Division , the Quakers are back in the basement , scraping for scraps of hope with York and Scarborough . |
| 6 | So far I 'd acquired all my know-how about birds of prey from books and first-hand experience . |
| 7 | We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches . |
| 8 | This gives a starting point from which to look for patterns of discrepancy in the subcategories . |
| 9 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 10 | The French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , visited Syria , Egypt and Israel in early October [ see p. 39119 for activities of Dumas in September ] , according to some press reports attempting to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad . |
| 11 | Although these are hardly the dominant features of international law at present , on this paradigm international law could control force by having courts to make decisions about conflicts of interest between states on the basis of authoritative rules and impartial and effective procedures for the accurate and fair application of these rules to specific circumstances . |
| 12 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 13 | On June 25 Iran , reportedly at the request of the leadership council of Lebanese Hezbollahreleased 40 Lebanese taken as prisoners of war during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 14 | The purpose of this chapter is to assess what we know from research evidence about patterns of support between adult relatives in contemporary Britain . |
| 15 | Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ? |
| 16 | R/000/23/1142 The primary aim of this project ( which we call Project SUSANNE — ‘ surface and underlying structural analyses of naturalistic English ’ ) was to create a sizeable machine-readable sample of written English annotated with the fullest possible grammatical information and selected semantic information , in order to provide language researchers with a source of information ( including statistical information ) about patterns of usage in authentic English . |
| 17 | Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Work by Raymond and Tompa [ 12 ] has indicated the need for an accurate representation of the fine structure of documents to allow fragments of documents to be referenced and treated as objects of data in their own right . |
| 19 | As we saw in Chapter 3 , witchcraft and astrology are generally not available in the higher education curriculum , except as objects of study by anthropologists and sociologists . |
| 20 | One group of people have connections with production through employment and live their lives through patterns of consumption in civil society . |
| 21 | Searching for cases of AIDS in Britain |
| 22 | It was comparatively rare for cases of assaults against females to receive sustained coverage and , indeed , there were only three cases where at least one newspaper covered the case on three or more separate days . |
| 23 | Telephone Belfast 365131 , Extension 2138/2139 for hours of attendance during vacations . |
| 24 | The advantage to carnivores such as lions of hunting in groups is that they can catch more food than if they hunted alone . |
| 25 | And even within one library there is a wide difference between patterns of use from one subject to another . |
| 26 | The Corpus of Knowledge was developed from the findings of wide ranging research and has provided a basis for all of HCIMA 's education initiatives , such as programmes of study for professional qualifications and the national Accreditation of Prior Learning network and the introduction of an Industrial Experience Scheme for teachers . |
| 27 | Requests for copies of items in the bulletin should be made to Fred Penfold or Anne Elliot . |
| 28 | For values of m between 0 and 1 , the input impedance lies between and and is a function of and m . |
| 29 | There are implications in all of this for what are regarded as indices of success for enforcement officials and agencies . |
| 30 | I have waded through copies of ACCOUNTANCY since 1985 . |