Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decision trees prove to be a good method of showing the basics of a decision , that is , what are the possible actions that might be taken at a particular decision point and what set of values leads to each of these actions . |
| 2 | A number of reasons contribute towards this . |
| 3 | There are a number of reasons to account for this conclusion . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 5 | ‘ provided that … the rights of non-member countries are not involved , a member state can not rely on the provisions of a pre-existing convention of that kind in order to justify restrictions on the marketing of products coming from another member state where the marketing thereof is lawful by virtue of the free movement of goods provided for by the Treaty . |
| 6 | First , under section 6 , when granting a warrant , the Home Secretary must make arrangements for the purpose of securing that : ( a ) the extent to which the material is disclosed ; ( b ) the number of persons to whom the material is disclosed ; ( c ) the extent to which the material is copied ; and ( d ) the number of copies made of any material is limited in each case to the minimum that is necessary . |
| 7 | Figures 23.2 and 23.3 show vertical and horizontal sections of fingers generated in this way . |
| 8 | At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem . |
| 9 | In fact , the level of independence of inputs required for this sort of system to produce double dissociations is only likely to be achieved if it is composed of complementary modules . |
| 10 | About 75% of solicitors qualify in this way which is the quickest and most common way to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 11 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 12 | A firm of solicitors experienced in this work will also be able to advise on the many areas of law which impinge on the conduct of takeover offers . |
| 13 | Fluctuations in the level of demand for books were identified by dividing the time during which the Library is open to the public each day into periods of fifteen minutes , and by noting the number of requests submitted within each period . |
| 14 | Since it was intended to examine the ability of the normal book-provision system to cope with varying levels of demand by noting the relationship , if any , between the number of requests submitted in any one period and the average time for straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books from the Main Building within that period , requests for early or rare items , most of which are not supplied through the normal book-fetching channels , were excluded . |
| 15 | Some other measures of volume used in empirical studies are : the value of contracts traded ( Telser and Higinbotham , 1977 ) ; the level of open interest ( Grammatikos and Saunders , 1986 ) ; the level of open interest multiplied by the price ( Telser and Higinbotham , 1977 ) ; and the number of contracts traded in all the outstanding delivery months , not just the delivery month whose prices are being used ( Cornell , 1981 ; Martell and Wolf , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) . |
| 17 | The following is a selected list of contacts arising from this report which may be of interest to readers , particularly those interested in commercial development . |
| 18 | Robert Jackson , for example , envisages a " middle way " as a " study of religions conducted in such a way that it makes a distinctive contribution to the pupils ' development of a coherent and personally satisfying set of beliefs and values " ( Jackson 1987 : 17 ) . |
| 19 | Similarly , much of what has been called primitive art or ethnic art consists of objects made in that style which manufacturers in various parts of the world have perceived to be demanded of them ( Graburn ed. 1976 ; Williams 1985 ) . |
| 20 | His bronze sculptures have the appearance of objects retrieved after many centuries on the sea bed . |
| 21 | The English Teaching Theatre Video is a translation to video of sketches performed by this group featuring language items . |
| 22 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 23 | If you can just work spend the next couple of minutes working through that . |
| 24 | In addition the changing patterns of employment of personnel involved in this area of drug company activity will be examined and an attempt will be made to weigh the medical benefits of the availability of cocaine and its derivatives against the problems caused by abuse of these agents . |
| 25 | The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area . |
| 26 | By that date 116 of 720 existing bases in western Germany would be closed , bringing the number of personnel stationed in that part of the country to 310,000 . |
| 27 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 28 | The upshot of this was that a number of companies pulled out of the timber-frame house-building market and the proportion of houses built by this method had dropped from 24 to 17 per cent by the beginning of 1984 , and is even less now . |
| 29 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 30 | The idea of this method is very simple : to work out the number of dies used for any given coinage and multiply this total by the average number of coins each die could produce . |