Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision by US President Bush in early November 1989 to reject a petition from the Timex Corporation challenging the duty-free import of watch movements for assembly in the Virgin Islands ensured the survival of about 600 jobs on St Croix . |
| 2 | Authorities on the cutting edge of independent care management will have to intensify their monitoring of assessment costs in order to get quick handle on their care managers ' expenditure . |
| 3 | Certification of Assessment Marks by Moderator |
| 4 | The findings will make explicit models of teacher assessment , teachers ' practical solutions to criterion referenced assessment systems and the use made of assessment results at school and LEA level . |
| 5 | The set of retroflex consonants in Tamil will also require special drilling for the English speaker , and the dental consonants will be difficult for him to hear as being different from his own alveolar consonants . |
| 6 | ( It follows that there can be little activation of NMDA receptors by ambient or spontaneously released L-glutamate , otherwise LTP would be induced by depolarization alone . ) |
| 7 | The marked potentiation of NMDA responses by acetylcholine in CA1 neurons was reproduced by the flash photolysis of caged InsP 3 ( ref. 153 ) but was blocked by the IP 3 R antagonist heparin . |
| 8 | Grade 1=normal appearance with intact epithelium , small numbers of lymphocytes , plasma cells , and macrophages in the lamina propria ; grade 2=intact epithelium but increased numbers of chronic inflammatory cells in the lamina propria , occasional foci of polymorphonuclear leukocytes ; grade 3=mild epithelial changes , leukocytes within the epithelium or the crypts and ducts , pronounced inflammatory cellular infiltration in the lamina propria ; grade 4=severe inflammatory changes with evidence of crypt abscesses with destruction , inflammatory erosions , or frank ulceration . |
| 9 | Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes . |
| 10 | The professor was closely involved in a series of benevolence programmes for Israel , including the B'nai B'rith charity organisation , and was recently in Poland to negotiate a settlement in the row over the presence of a Catholic convent on the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp . |
| 11 | References to Akio Morita are highlighted in both extracts , with the exception of verb inflections in Portuguese . |
| 12 | A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force . |
| 13 | But the quid pro quo was the loss of the ability to offset exploration drilling costs against PRT liability on producing fields , a concession which reduced the actual cost of sinking a new well to just some 17 per cent of rig charges for companies which had such a tax shelter . |
| 14 | ‘ We have had a lot of kind letters from people but it was very good of them to write and remember Kevin , ’ he said . |
| 15 | These empirical difficulties tell us something important about the nature of support structures between grandparent and grandchild . |
| 16 | Services also tend to take this segmented approach rather than offering an integrated package of support services to families . |
| 17 | D-INFLUENCE , London-based soul-rap-house blenders , who recently supported Michael Jackson , play a pair of support slots with Galliano at and their own dates at . |
| 18 | The WorldPartners association will be headquartered in New York , and AT&T , Kokusai Denshin Denwa and Singapore Telecom also agreed to create an operating organisation within WorldPartners to provide a range of support capabilities for association members , including clearing house functions for billing , ordering , provisioning , maintenance and customer support . |
| 19 | There is still doubt about domestic sales of videodisc but the manufacturers of videodisc systems in Britain have now begun to take note of the interest they attract in the world of education and training . |
| 20 | The establishment of genetically improved crops and livestock : the biological control of insect pests of plants ; promotion of the local fishing industry to commercial status ; exploitation of minerals , such as limestone , sand , salt and kaolin ; the controlled encouragement of tourism ; and the extensive training of managerial and skilled personnel to run the various programmes are all much needed . |
| 21 | RAF Gate Guards ( Airlife , 203pp , illus , hbk , £19.95 ) by Jim Simpson is a handy guide to all the aircraft that guard the gates of RAF establishments at home and abroad . |
| 22 | Yes , June nationally national figures of cinema attendances in June were down forty percent . |
| 23 | They were narrowly beaten by a four-nation , eight-man team of elite males in Italy in a spectacle that proved you did n't have to be one of the team to enjoy the fun . |
| 24 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 25 | IN the biggest American paratroop operation since the Allied attempt to seize the Rhine bridges in 1944 , the US Army dropped two battalions of elite Rangers into Panama in an operation involving 24,000 troops , tanks , warplanes and gunships . |
| 26 | A waitress shoved a plate of cocktail bits beneath Joshua 's nose . |
| 27 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 28 | At a meeting yesterday of the Scottish Association of GP Fundholders at Falkirk , Scotland 's health minister , Lord Fraser , said : ‘ It is clear momentum is growing . ’ |
| 29 | THE growing number of GP fundholders in Essex is draining more than £250,000 a year from the county 's medical watchdog . |
| 30 | Distributors of horror movies on video cassettes have been convicted on the basis that explicitly violent scenes are likely to corrupt a significant proportion of home viewers . |