Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] of [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions included further study of proposals for political union between the islands ( in particular between Dominica , Grenada , St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines ; the other three OECS member states were Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat and St Christopher and Nevis ) . |
| 2 | There was a further period of tussles for power until the ageing grandson of Bruce and son of Walter and Marjory at last reached the throne in his own right as Robert II , and gave to the royal house the name which would remain as Stewart until Mary , Queen of Scots , altered its spelling to Stuart . |
| 3 | The White Paper had stipulated that once the list was announced there would be no further designation of polytechnics for at least ten years . |
| 4 | The dynamic of a small beginning , usually in Congress , creating a further set of demands for an expanded programme among inside players , especially from interest groups , applied across most of the ACLR case studies . |
| 5 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 6 | On a mixed farm , there would be a larger number of buildings for cattle , while on a pastoral farm the reduced need for waggon horses caused the stables to be small and there would be little accommodation for crops . |
| 7 | The Countryside Commission recommends a closer integration of policies for social , economic , environmental and recreational aims in the uplands , incorporating a policy objective ‘ to protect and enhance the wildlife and landscape … of the uplands ’ . |
| 8 | The union will also try to provide a better class of men for the Merchant Service , and will see that crews join their ship punctually and in a sober condition ; it will help shipwrecked mariners ; it will provide assistance to members travelling in search of work ; it will establish a sick benefit and a burial fund . |
| 9 | As with the bucket brigade algorithm , we want to learn a better set of weights for the patterns . |
| 10 | Fourth , the discount houses collectively may offer a smaller quantity of bills for sale than apparently needed by the market as a whole , either because they take a different ( to the Bank ) view of the overall shortage in the market or because of the relationship in the market between the short term interest rates at which they fund themselves and the relevant bill yields . |
| 11 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |
| 12 | An ANDF version of the Oracle database — some 1.3 million lines of code — is currently underway and should provide a sterner test of claims for the technology . |
| 13 | In architecture there appeared a greater variety of buildings for different purposes . |
| 14 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 15 | stage 3 modules which provide for a wider range of opportunities for science specialisation . |
| 16 | In that sense women have a greater range of strategies for maximizing support at their disposal , although of course their capacity as wage earners in the formal economy has usually been far more limited than men 's . |
| 17 | Finally , Matroc offers a greater range of ceramics for more applications than most other firms . |
| 18 | greater range of opportunities for children to succeed ; |
| 19 | Allegheny West had a greater percentage of units for which bond issue loans were allocated and a still greater percentage allocated to investors than its percentage of North Side units would account for . |
| 20 | Still pleading competition and the greater suitability of women for keyboard work , they proposed first that machines henceforward be given alternately to men and women workers ; or , a further concession , that all new machines be given to men until there were 50 per cent worked by each sex , and attributed alternately thereafter . |
| 21 | The greater suitability of children for the new tasks was lauded in terms of their " quickness " and their " nimble " fingers . |
| 22 | The rural poor were not compensated by lower prices or by the greater availability of jobs for wives and children . |
| 23 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 24 | But the major obstacle to wider use of computers for textual processing is the time taken to input data . |
| 25 | These include an increasing trend towards automation and computerisation and a greater awareness of methods for making effective , economic use of oil . |
| 26 | The greatest scope for study exists with cremation pottery for , being decorated , it presents a greater number of variables for study , thereby reducing the number of possible interpretations of the patterns produced by analysis . |
| 27 | Most OECD countries are over-banked and also with the development of international money markets it became possible for banks to seek a wider source of deposits for their lending operations . |
| 28 | In Paying for Local Government ( Department of the Environment , 1986b ) , we are promised a new , simpler set of formulae for the assessment of GRE , which will again have stability as a major goal . |