Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are introduced for a variety of reasons but often the aim is the laudable one of protecting the public against physical harm or deception . |
| 2 | There were lots of reasons but obviously the main one was because some staff joined the scheme , others did n't . |
| 3 | The modern cycle has enormous gears and other fitments for riding on all types of roads and usually no fitted lights . |
| 4 | Notice that it reflects less a dramatic change in the number of mergers and more a spectacular increase in the size of companies involved . |
| 5 | Not only the characteristics of cities but also the requirements of industry need to be taken into account , and both are changing . |
| 6 | Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’ |
| 7 | The temptation is to rush out to lose one 's aloneness in all sorts of activities and perhaps a wild search for replacement company . |
| 8 | The description and evaluation of the AEC clearly demonstrates that , in their particular sphere of constructive influence , probation officers , like employers and teachers , are concerned in part with the establishment of rules and not the infliction of pain . |
| 9 | In contrast to figure 12.1 , the map resulting from this construal revealed not only a higher number of judgments but also a more effective structuring of their relationships . |
| 10 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 11 | Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . " |
| 12 | Listed here are the total populations of those countries where each language has official status — this will overestimate the number of speakers because only a relatively small number of Indians , for example , will actually speak English . |
| 13 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 14 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 15 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 16 | Children need not only a ‘ lexicon ’ of images but also the ability to cope with a number of conventions . |
| 17 | Libraries will not only provide a carefully-selected and well-displayed collection of books but also the opportunity to hear stories , paint , draw and make models , make and use puppets , take part in drama sessions , and so on . |
| 18 | Cos Grant 's got lots and lots of books and quite a lot now but she loves books and she takes care of them as well . |
| 19 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 20 | An approach to organizational politics which focuses on patterns of dominance goes beyond the by now familiar references in organization theory and public administration to the ‘ environment ’ of organizations and especially the political system , an example of which is found in Wamsley and Zald ( 1976 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ With regard to future developments , I feel there is a need for some more training in new technology , particularly in the field of computers and perhaps a more systematic approach to training ’ … |
| 22 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 23 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 24 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 25 | It was suggested that the number of voting peers should be about 230 , that the Government of the day should always have the largest number of peers but not an absolute majority . |
| 26 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 27 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 28 | None is required of schools and only the barest details are maintained on the files : |
| 29 | However this definition firmly identifies the contribution of physical geographers to the investigation of soils as primarily a historical or global one and that is not necessarily unanimously accepted in all the books produced by physical geographers in the 1970s ( Table 5.1 ) . |
| 30 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |