Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tyminski announced on Oct. 4 that he would be returning to Canada , because " I do not want my presence here to create the appearance of honesty in these elections " . |
| 2 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 3 | At last it has achieved a respectable measure of unity at most levels of the party . |
| 4 | It operates as a profoundly cultural category , an attempted representation of particular experiences and a particular construction of unity around those experiences . |
| 5 | And Grainne was struck all over again by the complete lack of subservience of these creatures . |
| 6 | The increased prominence of assessment at all stages of compulsory education is the feature which now most clearly distinguishes the British central curriculum from its continental neighbours . |
| 7 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 8 | We now publish an annual review of our HSE performance and of progress towards those targets . |
| 9 | It had been reported to the Committee by schools operating such a series of tests that the motivation of their pupils was increased because tests at different levels provide both an incentive and evidence of progress over several terms . |
| 10 | An advocate of progress in all forms , Wilson was the first in his area to illuminate his premises with gaslight . |
| 11 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 12 | The lack of progress in these talks , which were due to resume on Sept. 5 , was highlighted by the latest projection , released on July 16 , from the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) that the budget deficit would be $168,800 million for fiscal 1991 ( beginning in October 1990 ) . |
| 13 | Rather , it calculates a function : The function 's argument is the set I of inputs to the bottom layer , and its value is the resulting set of values of all nodes at the top layer . |
| 14 | The 1962 Cuban missile crisis severely damaged the USSR 's image in Latin America , and Moscow 's claims to be seeking peaceful coexistence were further undermined by Castro 's outspoken advocacy of guerrilla warfare and his stated policy of support for such endeavours in Latin America ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 15 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 16 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 17 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 18 | What sense can we make of support for these parties at the polls ? |
| 19 | On the one hand , there is now ample evidence of the existence of significant language patterns which have gone largely unrecorded in centuries of study ; on the other hand there is a dearth of support for some phenomena which are regularly put forward as normal patterns of English . |
| 20 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 21 | It is clear from these data that relatives are by no means the only , or even the major , source of support in such circumstances . |
| 22 | Also the idea that a strong obligation exists between parents and children , which can be relied upon as a source of support in most circumstances , misses a point of prime significance , namely that such support must be negotiated and provided in a way which does not trespass upon the independence of either party , especially of adult children . |
| 23 | There has been a lively debate in the American literature on this issue , with some researchers arguing that , if one looks at assistance of all types , the model is curvilinear in the sense that the middle generation in three-generation families is net provider of support in both directions ( Hill , 1970 ) . |
| 24 | On March 21 , 1991 , proposals that the President should be directly elected , that the voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18 , and that the number of seats in the Grand National Assembly should be increased from 450 to 600 were presented by Özal , in spite of lack of support from some factions within the ANAP . |
| 25 | The Front has since received many messages of support from both Tamils and Sinhalese . |
| 26 | Lectures , seminar discussions , guided reading , essays/projects and workshops all attracted a range of support within most courses , with no clearly discernible trends . |
| 27 | Indeed Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) argue that this urban-rural shift was the main component of change over those years ( more important , that is , than changes in balance between regions ) . |
| 28 | They are used to clarify the relationships that exist between the variables that influence the buying situation , and to predict the outcome of change to these variables . |
| 29 | However , there are signs of change at some levels , because men are now being accepted on to the CARE course , which provides specialist training in how to deal with victims of sex crimes , although this might simply reflect a recognition that an increasing number of victims are young boys . |
| 30 | The conception and management of change in these organizations confirms the inadequacy of the structure-strategy paradigm either as a heuristic for understanding the process of innovatory change or as a prescriptive tool for enterprises searching for durable competitive advantage in volatile markets . |