Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it stands , the crucial implication of these findings , if they are correct , is that increasing the availability of support for people with adverse living circumstances in an attempt to prevent depression would not be expected to be effective . |
| 2 | Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ? |
| 3 | How are we to reconcile or decide between these competing and very different accounts of the basis of support between kin in the past ? |
| 4 | One example of such a model is that of Vidale and Wolfe who related the rate of change of sales to advertising by the equation : unc where S = sales at time t ds/dt = rate of change of sales at time A = advertising expenditure at time r = sales response factor ( sales generated per unit of advertising expenditure ) M = saturation level of sales ( sales maximum ) |
| 5 | One example of such a model is that of Vidale and Wolfe who related the rate of change of sales to advertising by the equation : unc where S = sales at time t ds/dt = rate of change of sales at time A = advertising expenditure at time r = sales response factor ( sales generated per unit of advertising expenditure ) M = saturation level of sales ( sales maximum ) |
| 6 | At the Essex Forest Eyre in October 1634 , for example , the judges , after consulting with the Chief Justice of the King 's Bench and the Barons of the Exchequer , decided that there was no right of common of pasture for sheep on the forest wastes . |
| 7 | Although the levels of mercury in fish in the Mersey is well below the legal limit , industry and the statutory authorities will continue to monitor the situation . |
| 8 | ( Throughout this paper , the word ‘ co-ordination ’ is used to refer to this aspect of the control structure of a system and not to the linguistic phenomenon of co-ordination by means of conjunctions . ) |
| 9 | Mr Hurd replied : ‘ We have worked out what we believe to be the most sensible balance between our desire for good race relations and harmony in our cities … and our very strong feeling that we have a continuing … duty of responsibility to people in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 10 | Of course to people like Mr. Tully who benefit by the British presence in the occupied part of our country ( a country which was partitioned against the will of the vast majority of our population ) the current whereabouts of Barleycorn is an unpleasant reminder that the Republican movement will not be cowed by threats from the likes of him and his cohorts in the Unionist parties in the failed political entity of Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 12 | As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable . |
| 13 | The bank also slashed non-interest costs from 70% of income to 60% in 1990 . |
| 14 | There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money-back guarantee . |
| 15 | The plan is designed to achieve equality of opportunity for people from these groups within the ES . |
| 16 | This may be seen even in Britain , where the courts are formally subordinate to Parliament but are not powerless to affect the intention of Parliament by means of legal definitions because of the inevitable ambiguity of statutes . |
| 17 | Development of lymphoma in 15% of patients may indicate excessive immunosuppression . |
| 18 | Mr Green hopes the fire will provoke further pledges of aid to People In Need at 1113 Maryhill Road , Glasgow . |
| 19 | Myers estimates a rate of loss of species from tropical rain forest at 10000 a year and compares this to a major ‘ evolutionary spasm ’ , but unlike previous ones such as the end of the dinosaurs , the present phase has the plants as well as the animals in decline . |
| 20 | A sample survey from the Inland Revenue suggests that the multiplier will be in the range of 30–35p per £1 of the rateable value . |
| 21 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 22 | There are also a range of approaches which offer more personalized forms of help to people in difficulties without the stigma of becoming a client . |
| 23 | " In the Night Cafe I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . " |
| 24 | I can , yes I can remember having this sort of question about people with jugs and they wanted to measure out a certain amount , but they have n't got any markings for this certain amount and that awful |
| 25 | The underlying assumption was that the likelihood of marriage between people from different villages drops off with increase in geographical distance between the villages . |
| 26 | We both believe that mutual access to each other 's catalogues would be of benefit to staff in both institutions , but we recognise that there are practical problems and questions of policy which would have to be addressed . |
| 27 | In British culture this would make conversation very difficult as the extent and direction of gaze between people in a group plays a part in regulating their conversation and signalling who will speak next ( turntaking ) . |
| 28 | I FIND a lot of anxiety among people about the dividing lines between the seasons of the year , or what the French call pre-Mistral tension . |
| 29 | Because you 're not carrying the weight of your body on your feet , it 's a good form of exercise for people with painful feet , bad backs , or arthritis . |
| 30 | Over the same period oil demand fell by 25% and its share of consumption from 51% to 44% . |