Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Development of lymphoma in 15% of patients may indicate excessive immunosuppression . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " In the Night Cafe I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . " |
| 6 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 7 | To pay for all this LWT is turning £50m of cash into £72.5m of debt . |
| 8 | Domestic monetary policy , it is generally accepted , was primarily determined by the defence of sterling by means of interest-rate manipulation and credit control and , over the whole period , was ineffective in controlling the money supply . |
| 9 | It is quite natural for all human beings to seek the company of their peers , but surely this should not be to the exclusion of contact with people of all ages . |
| 10 | Speakers also have the option of anchoring deictic expressions to a different centre of orientation by means of what is known as deictic projection ( Levinson 1983:64 ) : The anchorage point for the deictic verb " come " , which , in unmarked cases , indicates movement towards the speaker 's location at the moment of utterance , is shifted to the speaker 's future home base in 5 , and to the addressee 's position at a specific future moment in time in 6 ( cf. |
| 11 | Charles Darwin , in his theory of evolution by means of natural selection , stressed the role of competition . |
| 12 | Since you seem to know whereof you speak I will only say that you must know that the burden of restraint by means of the … mechanism … employed will , of necessity , fall upon the man . |
| 13 | Bags of fun for people of all ages , with 12 water slides from gentle slopes to the ‘ Kamikaze Rum ’ . |
| 14 | The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks . |
| 15 | As noted earlier , ( p. 17 ) , between 1953 and 1978 the age-adjusted rate of suicide by means of firearms increased from 4.9 to 7.1 per 100 000 population , while rates for other methods remained unchanged ( Boyd 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 17 | An RUC inspector said a test showed he had 141mg of alcohol to 100ml of blood . |
| 18 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 19 | A blood analysis showed 141mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood and Dr Ritche said the effects of the drugs could be heightened by alcohol . |
| 20 | It would be inappropriate to penalise the relatively harmless social use of alcohol by 90% of the population in order to try to control the damage caused mainly by the alcoholic 10% . |
| 21 | A pathologist 's report showed Paul Adrian Hughes had 275mcg of alcohol in 100ml of blood more than three times the limit for driving . |
| 22 | Secondly , the attempt to limit the use of custody by means of statutory criteria still leaves considerable discretion in the hands of sentencers themselves . |
| 23 | Ramaema on May 13 announced the repeal of legislation banning political parties and was quoted as promising a restoration of democracy by means of elections by June 1992 . |
| 24 | Unlike in T-groups , the tutor , or trainer , plays a key role in briefing the group for its tasks and in directing the development of feed-back by means of questions and comments at the end of each exercise . |
| 25 | Since the level of investment measures the level of demand for means of production , the growth in the investment level measures the direct contribution of accumulation to the growth in markets . |
| 26 | Ideally a measure of sorting should embrace a broader spectrum of the grains present , and the graphic standard deviation σ φ , of Inman ( 1952 ) , computed from provides a measure of the spread of size of 68% of the population ( one standard deviation on either side of the mean ) . |
| 27 | Kahnweiler in Der Weg zum Kubismus is probably echoing conversations with Braque when he writes : ‘ Representation of the position of objects in space is done as follows : instead of beginning from a supposed foreground and going on from there to give an illusion of depth by means of perspective , the painter begins from a definite and clearly defined background . |
| 28 | These include a raising of awareness amongst staff of the potential of the library as a resource and of more progressive pedagogies generally , an increasing understanding of the aims and practices of other departments , and an exploration of the potential for whole-school curriculum planning . |
| 29 | Here we consider the incidence of features which are fore-grounded ( 1.4 ) by virtue of departing in some way from general norms of communication by means of the language code ; for example , exploitation of regularities of formal patterning , or of deviations from the linguistic code . |
| 30 | In this instrument differences of pitch are obtained , not by the use of valves , as in the horn and trumpet , but by varying the length of the vibrating column of air by means of a movable slide , the position of which is altered at will by the player . |