Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 2 | It is here that the goal of developing a different vision , for locating a different set of values , becomes pre-eminent — because with that different vision , with a determination to create a new set of values which recognises intrinsic value in all living creatures , we can properly inform and inspire a programme that works , albeit a gradualist one ! |
| 3 | Of course , there are still places where the old-style canalizing approach to river management is being pushed through ; and the conflict of values which underlies this whole issue raises a number of questions which are not easy to answer . |
| 4 | Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals . |
| 5 | Uvistat , Nivea , Soltan and Ambre Solaire all have a good selection of products which fit these criteria . |
| 6 | We have identified a number of products which have tradeable potential , such as publications , image databases , herbarium microfilm , and CD-ROMs . |
| 7 | Category II contained the 32% of authorities who referred to between 5 and 30 programmes or courses , and Category III , the 27% of authorities who mentioned 5 or less . |
| 8 | Category I contained the 27% of authorities who mentioned 30 or more programmes or courses . |
| 9 | Furthermore , an instruction set could provide an arbitrary collection of operations which seem likely to be convenient , or we can attempt to group the operations and provide some structure in the set of instructions provided ; the instruction set of the Pegasus ( Elliott , Owen , Devonald , and Maudsley 1956 ) is a good example of the latter . |
| 10 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 11 | The 5% of requests which remained unsatisfied were investigated , and the reasons noted . |
| 12 | It seems to be more difficult for human beings to apprehend the gravity of harms which take several years to manifest themselves . |
| 13 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 14 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 15 | In Poulantzas ' view the co-ordination of the capitalist state is achieved by the political executive and higher administrative civil service , irrespective of the type of personnel who staff these posts . |
| 16 | They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet . |
| 17 | Another possibility is that the noun descriptions suggest a particular set of activities which become dominant in addressing schemas for interpretation . |
| 18 | Since the end of the Second World War , state institutions have extended their influence over a whole range of activities which touch individual lives . |
| 19 | Where it is not clear whether a particular rulemaking power authorises the making of rules which modify fiduciary duties , there are four possible outcomes . |
| 20 | To put this more concretely : scientists try to enforce a set of rules which place strict limits on the entry of the outside world into their realm . |
| 21 | N. Bailey ( e.g. 1973 ) and Bickerton ( e.g. 1973 , 1975 ) have claimed that the continuum of " lects " between " basilect " and " acrolect " can be characterised by a series of rules which convert each lect , starting from basilect , into the next upward lect . |
| 22 | There are a number of birds which have long legs , long necks , and possibly long or specially shaped bills . |
| 23 | Thus geometries would be classified by groups of transformations which left certain geometrical aspects invariant . |
| 24 | However , it is still very difficult to search for the sequence of transformations which produced any given tree . |
| 25 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 26 | ON August 25 , 1992 , in a report about the large amount of divorce legal costs , we inadvertently stated , due to a typographical error , that average costs of cases which take some time amounted to £250,000 , when the correct figure should be £25,000 . |
| 27 | The handling of cases which involve short or fixed term contracts requires clarification . |
| 28 | In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions , such as the indiction or year of grace ( see later ) . |
| 29 | It was an instructive couple of hours which showed that sport can cross any barriers . |
| 30 | Members of groups which have frequent time limits express significantly less pride in their work … |