Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If tha does n't believe me , ger a bag of coil on thi back and I 'll get one on mine [ not something unusual for Amos who happened to be a coalmerchant ] and ah 'll race thee to t ’ top o' t' wood ! ’ |
| 2 | The progressing of orders through the production process is essentially a monitoring and reporting task , which also involves some ‘ chasing-up ’ of progress in situations where orders have fallen behind schedule . |
| 3 | The duty is phrased more positively in terms of support for families rather than diminishing the need to take children into care ; the duty is , though , owed to ‘ children in need ’ , defined in terms of disability , significant impairment of health or development , and failure to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services . |
| 4 | Withdrawal of support for activities not contractually required meant that some changes which teachers had been willing to make had not yet been realized . |
| 5 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 6 | The sale of liquor to persons under 18 . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) 5.68 is concerned with the prohibition of the sale of liquor to persons under 18 years of age . |
| 8 | His eyes were bloodshot , his skin was grey and waxy with fatigue , and there were small patches of bristle in hollows where he 'd missed shaving . |
| 9 | Use of idiom was almost totally lacking in the samples of signing collected , partly because these were fixed tasks of description of pictures rather than conversational ( though even in conversations which we recorded with interpreters the signing was dominated by English ) , and partly because there is a feeling that BSL in its deaf form is somehow inappropriate for the formality of a test situation . |
| 10 | Some chinampas are still in operation and experimental models are being built in other parts of Mexico and elsewhere to assess the productivity of this method of agriculture in swamplands today . |
| 11 | Brody speculates that this finding ( which runs counter to the evidence which I presented above that grandparents place more value on this relationship than grandchildren ) may reflect the idealism of the younger generation and their lack of experience of situations where demands are actually made upon them . |
| 12 | This idea of an authority relation , giving the employer a special power of direction over employees not found between parties transacting in the market , has , however , been disputed , notably by Alchian and Demsetz , who argue that the employer/employee relationship does not differ in substance from any other relationship founded in contract . |
| 13 | This can be confirmed by the occasional occurrence of the former symptoms of hysteria in areas where family upbringing has not changed . |
| 14 | The rise in the share of transfers ( pensions , dole , etc. ) also probably took the form ( as it did over the period as a whole ; see chapter 9 ) of an extension of coverage of schemes rather than of a growth in real value in excess of productivity . |
| 15 | Parts were always going wrong , and half the time computers were out of action as technicians laboriously tried to find and remedy faults . |
| 16 | the work of Action of Churches Together in Scotland ( A.C.T.S. ) Church Unity Week |
| 17 | The targeting of investment to areas rather than people , and the creation of a layer of bureaucracy to ‘ represent ’ such areas , is , in other words , a critical process in the delivery of urban policy initiatives . |
| 18 | The notion of friendship between classes also motivated organisations such as the Girls ' Friendly Society and the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 19 | And although the majority of materialist philosophers base their belief in the neurophysiological theory of perception on arguments rather than observations , they are , nevertheless , greatly influenced by the apparent successes of neurophysiology . |
| 20 | The Department of Health publishes a Manual of Practice for Guardians ad Litem and Reporting Officers ( HMSO , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | the possibility of combining different areas of study in ways not generally available elsewhere in the UK ; |
| 22 | Jean 's bought me a tin of biscuits and a tin of of tin of biscuits so there 's ample biscuits . |
| 23 | The circle then disappears wholly , and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal . |
| 24 | There is a very high incidence of alcoholism in families where incest occurs but it also appears that child molestation occurs in several generations in some families even when there is no other obvious sign of addictive disease . |
| 25 | The potential social and economic costs of AIDS to countries already ravaged by poverty are enormous . |
| 26 | It should n't be difficult , there 's plenty of farms could do with a bit of help with men away at the war . |
| 27 | The great danger is that each individual hospital or other part of the NHS affected will endeavour to tackle its own immediate problems without any awareness of help from practices elsewhere . |
| 28 | Electrophysiological studies may be of help in cases where neither sweat test nor DNA analysis were conclusive . |
| 29 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 30 | Some have tested host responses towards real or model cuckoo eggs with different degrees of mimicry in areas where the host is sympatric with the parasite and in areas where the host has ( presumably ) never been parasitized . |