Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not clear whether this has been the result of state intervention or of changes in the structure of production . |
| 2 | The precedent is being established that Community law , whether this takes the form of Commission Directives or of judgments by the Court of Justice , overrides national law if the two are in conflict . |
| 3 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 5 | For being is always defined as the appropriation of either difference into identity , or of identities into a greater order , be it absolute knowledge , History , or the state . |
| 6 | He is responsible for presenting to the council and its committees all matters of business which are brought to his notice , either from members of the public , members of the council or from the officers themselves , and of recording the decisions , either by way of minutes of the committees or of reports of the committees which are subsequently presented to the council . |
| 7 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 8 | Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package . |
| 9 | Whether the buy-out will be of the business assets of the target , or of shares in the target company , is significant for tax purposes . |
| 10 | Here we consider the incidence of features which are fore-grounded ( 1.4 ) by virtue of departing in some way from general norms of communication by means of the language code ; for example , exploitation of regularities of formal patterning , or of deviations from the linguistic code . |
| 11 | This authorises the making of rules which require " the disclosure of the amount or value , or of arrangements for the payment or provision , of commissions or other inducements in connection with investment business … |
| 12 | Global models take no account of magnetic fields caused by the magnetisation of local rocks ( the crustal anomaly field ) , nor of the regular daily variations in the global field , nor of disturbances in the field . |
| 13 | save that of ears along the ground , |
| 14 | Acute illness episodes were also significant , restricting the activities of men over 75 for an average 47 days each year , and of women for an average 61 days each year — compared with 23 days and 29 days respectively for men and women of all ages . |
| 15 | Instead , the Scotland stand-off 's tragic misfortune figured in the jeering and taunting to which the wives and girl friends of the players , and of others in the SRU party , were subjected . |
| 16 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 17 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 18 | The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition . |
| 19 | We have shown that the initial stages of T-cell development require the support both of MHC class II + epithelial cells and of fibroblasts in the thymic stroma . |
| 20 | This dramatic dimension has been an important aspect of rockets from the German 1944 V-2s onwards and of satellites from the Soviet 1957 Sputnik onwards . |
| 21 | The reaction of parents to infants , and of friends to the speech of those who are gravely ill , is to attribute meaning to any murmur which can be interpreted as relevant to the context of situation , and , if at all possible , to interpret what appears to be being said as constituting a coherent message , permitting the hearer to construct a coherent interpretation . |
| 22 | The University will take account of the report of the Academic Auditors ( which is expected in August 1993 ) and of reports of the HEFCE quality assessors as they review individual subjects . |
| 23 | The redistribution of seats and the extension of the franchise helped loosen the grip of the aristocracy and of ministers on the House of Commons . |
| 24 | I draw the attention of the House and of Ministers to the fact that in that context it seems to make no sense whatsoever that one regulatory authority responsible for safety — the maritime inspectorate — should still remain within the Department of Transport . |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State admit that the Government have made a right mess of the economy and of businesses of the north-east ? |
| 26 | She continually saw visions — for example , of Christ and of scenes from the Gospels — and once ‘ the Sacrament shook and flickered to and fro , as a dove flickereth with her wings ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Why does not the Minister condemn the appointments of spouses of Tory Members and of Members of the House of Lords who pick up more than £5,000 a year for doing a day 's work ? |
| 29 | They also called for the disarming of civilians and of members of the militia , and appealed to the security forces not to become involved in the political debate . |
| 30 | The committee recommended the convening of a national conference of delegates from various social , political and religious groupings and of individuals in the first half of 1991 . |