Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Graduates with specific research interests are encouraged to continue their research as postgraduate students working with staff of the Department in a variety of areas of specialism .
2 These courses involve the study of the development of software and hardware for a variety of areas of application .
3 There are in India a variety of systems of home leave , furlough , early release and parole , but in practice relatively few prisoners benefit .
4 Evidence that recognition of an event can survive a change of context when other forms of learning do not comes from a variety of studies of human memory .
5 This project aims to investigate the intonation structures of a variety of languages of different types , particularly with regard to these interactions with tonal and accentual features .
6 it gives children the chance to practise varieties of language in different situations and to use a variety of functions of language which it is otherwise more difficult to practise : questioning , challenging , complaining etc. ;
7 By the end of our fieldwork , however , all the teams were offering a variety of schemes of one or two weeks duration in the summer and some additional provision was made at Easter and Christmas .
8 We continued collecting through 1981 , visiting ever more remote parts of the country , and using a variety of forms of transport .
9 With the aid of a mass of equipment , some manual ( such as whips and chains ) , some mechanical and some electrical , clients were subjected , at their own wish and with their full consent , to a variety of forms of humiliation , flagellation , bondage and torture , accompanied often by masturbation .
10 There would , for instance , be a dynamic and advanced economy with the highest possible labour productivity based upon a variety of forms of property and worker participation .
11 It would be based on a variety of forms of public ownership which would enable people to be masters of their own lives and to give full play to their energy and abilities .
12 It would incorporate a variety of forms of enterprise , including individual , family and cooperative as well as state productive units , which would be economically self-sufficient and interrelated through a market .
13 It would incorporate a variety of forms of property , including joint enterprises in which employees held up to 49 per cent of the shares .
14 Civic Forum and PAV emphasized that economic prosperity would only come about after sacrifices and hard work , leading to the emergence of a fully-fledged market economy , with a variety of forms of economic ownership .
15 By combining a variety of ribbons of different colours and widths , you can create spectacular 3-D designs ( see far right ) .
16 There is an obvious need to be able to develop indicators which summarize the structure of a given population at a variety of scales of analysis ( e.g national , regional or county ) .
17 In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company .
18 In this chapter we shall briefly look at formal organisation structure and consider a variety of views of how this structure might be established so as to optimise the efficiency of the organisation .
19 The exclusive Amsterdam Travel Service Cycle Route booklet specially compiled with a variety of routes of differing duration covering the region 's most interesting and beautiful places .
20 Not only does the cutting edge vary in shape , there are a variety of patterns of shanks ; the metal behind the blade .
21 In accordance with allowance for departmental variations , each department was left to formulate its own plans for implementing the FMI ( see Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 and Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 ) , producing a variety of patterns of implementation .
22 So the search is on for a more durable , ‘ horizontal ’ resistance to a variety of races of a pest .
23 As stated , this raises the degeneracy caused by the cosine function , and this system is observed { 21 } to give a variety of waveforms of period coexisting in complex ways with each other and with subharmonics and chaos .
24 The ancestor of the modern jury has been found in a variety of institutions of northern Europe in this period ; in truth it seems to be the residuary legatee of the popular courts in general .
25 When applied to the world of goods , such approaches therefore tend to subsume the whole spectrum of industrial commodities under a variety of notions of cultural dominance .
26 However , following Hirschi , and from a variety of sources of which Gibbs was only one ( and not a particularly favourably disposed one ) , the neglect of the classical concern with effective deterrence has been fully rectified .
27 They will be devising packages of care which draw upon a variety of sources of support .
28 It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record .
29 First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism .
30 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
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