Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) .
2 However , it is not clear where on this hypothetical curve normal driving would lie , thus both enhancements or impairments of memory with increasing risk could be explained within this framework .
3 This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected .
4 It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum .
5 if you have feelings or attitudes of superiority in relation to your own language and culture
6 And there are few enough references to international hostilities in the novels of Jane Austen , or signs of distress in the great landscape and portrait paintings of the age .
7 Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others .
8 Individual peasants and lords could and did remove strips or groups of strips from the rotation sequence of their neighbours and fence them around .
9 Members ' primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients , i.e. the persons or groups of persons for whose requirements and use are intended the resources and services which the members are engaged to provide .
10 We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole .
11 The arrangements are ideal for families or groups of friends with differing interests , including non-sailors .
12 However , an attempt may be made to allocate particular bits or groups of bits in the operation code field to particular features of the instruction ; one bit , for example , might specify whether the result of an operation is to be placed in the accumulator , and another whether the fixed-point arithmetic unit is to be used by the operation .
13 Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner .
14 This is the energy required to separate the atoms or groups of atoms at either end of the bond by a great distance , so that there is no bonding between them .
15 Usually , the media planner attributes importance weightings to different demographic groups in the population , and the computer is asked to rank media or groups of media against them in order of cost per thousand .
16 The technology for exchanging information among individual registries or groups of registries through computerized networks is sufficiently established to allow easy national and international access to the registry or registries in question .
17 Obligations can also be imposed upon individuals or groups of individuals by treaty .
18 ( 1 ) ( a ) Owners or occupiers of property in neighbourhood .
19 This budget reduces the organization 's transactions to movements of cash and indicates shortfalls or excesses of cash at particular periods of time .
20 However , there have as yet been no official state decrees , announcements or acts of recognition to this effect .
21 The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors .
22 Searches may be made through subject headings ( though these are too broad to be really useful ) , or more effectively — at least in the pure and applied sciences — through keywords or combinations of keywords in the titles of books listed .
23 Finally , remember to protect oxygenating plants with wide cylinders or domes of netting for a few weeks to prevent any fish from pulling them up before they 're established .
24 Other forms of money were used , such as animals or units of metal by weight .
25 Consider reviewing computer printouts or lists of cases with another lawyer .
26 Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this …
27 I do not possess any pornographic publications or pictures of couples in lubricious postures , though I am aware that they exist to an ever more proliferating degree , and I have seen these things in Robert 's room and in my agent 's office .
28 These odd experiences , typical of getting to sleep , or periods of drowsiness during the day , are not uncommon .
29 Little is known of the life cycle or effects of members of this genus , but they are not considered serious pathogens .
30 Many of the suggestions made in this Report presuppose a higher degree of expertise and commitment in church organists or directors of music in the future than is often the case at present .
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