Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [det] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufactured goods account for half of UK consumer spending and 70% of exports . |
| 2 | The government 's Building Research Establishment estimates that buildings account for half of Britain 's energy consumption . |
| 3 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 4 | What citizens expect above all of governments is that they should achieve desirable ends . |
| 5 | A related school of thought asks questions about how the competitive advantages of firms interact with those of countries to help explain the level and pattern of cross-border activities of firms . |
| 6 | There are two symbols which appear in many of Pakenham 's works . |
| 7 | The Independent allusively brings the subject full circle , because of the swastikas , studs and chains that appear in some of Mapplethorpe 's portraits . |
| 8 | But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders . |
| 9 | Everybody should know the boundaries of their own competence , where and how their activities touch on those of others , and in what circumstances they need to consult others or keep them informed . |
| 10 | But oxygen does perform one function that bring–benefit to all of life ; not when it is in its usual form , but when it takes the form of ozone . |
| 11 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 12 | The findings conflict with those of Prior et al who studied 205 women before and after hysterectomy . |
| 13 | Because the major unit of reward is the family , most women do not feel that their interests conflict with those of men . |
| 14 | The south-west-facing vines of Grauves mix with those of Cuis before bending around the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs to meet the superbly situated , east and south-east-facing vineyards of Cramant , Avize , le Mesnil and Vertus . |
| 15 | Stone buildings abound in much of France , especially Normandy , also in England , the German Rhineland and southern Italy ; in Sicily and central France volcanic materials are much in evidence ; along the whole Baltic coastal plain , brick is the predominant material as building knowledge developed , and elsewhere timber was in prime use . |
| 16 | The purpose of the seminar was to consider problems of agricultural structure and education which have led to economic stagnation and decline in many of Europe 's marginal areas . |
| 17 | There are also numerous reports that sailing and other water-based recreational sports can have adverse affects on water-birds that abound on many of Britain 's artificially created reservoirs ( e.g. Tuite 1982 ) . |
| 18 | But if we can sometimes lift our eyes from our own problems and focus on those of others , it will be at least a step in the right direction and Christmas is a good time to take it , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Both theories entail a shift of attention away from considerations of origin or cause to those of function or effect ; neither is as much interested in the ways in which language reflects reality , as in the ways in which it shapes our perception of things ; both attach central importance to the concepts of system and difference . |
| 20 | Erm you know they 're not interested in services that actually meet with these of people , like people that want the buses and I really take great exception to on the on spending less money on public transport er not but also work place |
| 21 | So I 'm a bit of a newshound so I look at both of course , see what 's what . |
| 22 | , Norwegian fisherman are so worried about pollution from Dounreay nuclear power station that they have suggested that their government unite with those of Iceland and the Faroes in the creation of new jobs for those working at the plant , should their campaign to have it shut down prove successful . |
| 23 | Though pluralists may not call the problem ‘ regionalism ’ , at this point their concerns certainly converge with those of others who do . |
| 24 | The first , and rather obvious , point of criticism is that by concentrating on capital-labour relations and movements of capital these authors have largely neglected other kinds of relations ( such as those of gender and race ) which have dynamics which are relatively separate from those of class but which nevertheless combine with those of class in highly complex ways . |
| 25 | Our findings contrast with those of Campbell in South Belfast and Stott et al in Glasgow , since geriatricians in both Scotland and Northern Ireland have continued to provide long term care and the growth in the private sector began somewhat later than in England . |
| 26 | These findings contrast with those of Beubler et al who used close intra-arterial injections of 5HT . |
| 27 | It is a similar attitude to that of children and adolescents who have their secret understandings and life-styles which are often , quite intentionally , separate from those of parents , teachers and others of the ‘ older ’ generation . |
| 28 | Explosive problems remain in many of Britain 's prisons — a higher number of lifers , often with strong political faiths , who have nothing left to lose ; overcrowding which forces men to sleep three to a cell and understaffing which weakens security . |
| 29 | ‘ A few days after the funeral , ’ I said , ‘ Karen phoned to ask if I 'd come over and help her dispose of some of Dennis 's effects . |
| 30 | The presence of one sixteen-petalled flower ( compare with that of Locke 's Timber Yard : pI . |