Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took his put-down without rancour , allowing her gaze to drift over the paperwork scattered in separate clumps of disorder at intervals along the work-bench . |
| 2 | For this purpose the Regional Council has agreed a policy on violence to employees at work in order to identify and promote practices which seek to minimise the potential risks of violence to employees . |
| 3 | It shows that the relative risks of mortality for children in social classes IV and V were higher than for those in classes I and II for all age groups , although the difference was not statistically significant at ages 10–15 . |
| 4 | The statistics in Table 18 also point to the markedly greater risks of childbearing at ages 45 and over than at ages 15–44 . |
| 5 | It begins by defining the augmented nature of the product or service being purchased , and looks at the derived characteristics of demand for goods and services in these industrial markets . |
| 6 | Shoplifting , undetected female crime and the social interior of women 's prisons are no longer completely uncharted territories ; we know more about the career of the prostitute and about the characteristics of delinquency in girls . |
| 7 | ‘ And should you wish to play tourist , then on the hall table you will find all sorts of literature on things to see and do in the area . |
| 8 | The author of Poor Robin 's Almanac of 1729 dished out all sorts of advice to readers . |
| 9 | The money supply will also expand , but not via the balance of payments , if depositors of sterling in banks overseas redeposit their sterling in the UK . |
| 10 | It was still not much to say after the Holocaust and so many long centuries of discrimination by Christians , and often by Church authorities , against the Jews . |
| 11 | The most common quarry is the houbara bustard , which , after centuries of hunting with falcons , has been virtually wiped out in the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 12 | You shake a sheaf of poems in the face of killers ; you do paintings with Uncle Sam as an anaconda ; and writers talk of five centuries of resistance to oppressors who may change-colonists , missionaries , generals , coke bosses-but whose victims remain the same . |
| 13 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 14 | When handling tour bookings details must be thoroughly discussed with the agents before the group 's expected arrival , for example , whether the baggage handling and tips are to be included in the rates and the methods of payment for extras , by the guests . |
| 15 | Details of the methods of ascertainment of cases and verification of diagnostic and other information have been published elsewhere . |
| 16 | Heat treatment , self-help on the patient 's part , and rehabilitation of the affected muscles by massage and exercise were the tenets of her faith — and I had to admit that a great deal of what she practised depended on scorn for the accepted methods of treatment with splints , braces , and corsets which only assisted the patients in coping with unhealed limbs , not in any actual sense curing them . |
| 17 | The first chapter reviews the evolution of mandibular , salivary and frontal gland methods of defence in termites ; further discussion of the ecological results of these behavioural adaptations would have been valuable . |
| 18 | They then had to use Prestel to make comparisons between the methods of transport in terms of cost , time taken and ease of access . |
| 19 | Anderson ( 1973 ) noted that great variety in the methods of recruitment of assistants , hours of work , and the amount of timetabled contact with special needs children . |
| 20 | Sterilization is becoming one of the most important methods of contraception among women of childbearing years , and the normal method of contraception for couples where the woman is aged over 30 . |
| 21 | A wider use of existing methods of contraception among non-users — and a reduction in the use of the IUD , which has a high failure rate — would pull down the abortion rate 46 per cent . |
| 22 | A fallacy of composition , involving the illegitimate transfer of microeconomic methods of analysis to macroeconomics , also appears to have added to the confusion . |
| 23 | There are two basic methods of breeding among cichlids — mouthbrooding and substrate spawning . |
| 24 | Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications , defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness . |
| 25 | One volunteer was a school boy , who collected between sessions of revision for exams . |
| 26 | This project is examining psychological and physiological indicators of strain during periods of work . |
| 27 | Sharpe is equally critical of extrapolations from the Draize test as indicators of toxicity for humans ( 100–1 ) . |
| 28 | Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree . |
| 29 | The South American story is complicated by the fact that it was subject to sporadic waves of invasion by mammals from North America . |
| 30 | I slept , dreaming of Masquerade sinking through waves of steel into torrents of fire . |