Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) . |
| 2 | It is evident from the progress of the talks between employers and union , that the employers equally recognized this as the heart of the dispute . |
| 3 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 4 | McBride said in early 1980 that Debendox , a remedy for morning sickness , was , like Thalidomide , ‘ capable of causing deformities in a small percentage of the embryos of women who took it early in pregnancy ’ . |
| 5 | This is the secret behind many of the stories about animals sensing the presence of man and other creatures , or of rushing to the help of an injured person discovered by means outside the scope of their more obvious perceptive processes . |
| 6 | Most of the stories into categories , one or two . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated . |
| 8 | Many of the rides in Monks Wood are wide , measuring up to sixty feet across . |
| 9 | As it is , when I use mine , I think of her , and of the generations of Merchants that have not been as lucky as I. |
| 10 | Kandel , trained as a psychiatrist , spent a period working on Aplysia with Ladislav Tauc in Paris in the 1960s , saw the potential of the organism , initially for the study of short-term processes such as habituation , and over the subsequent quarter-century in New York he has made its study peculiarly his own and that of the generations of researchers who have cut their teeth in this Columbia laboratory . |
| 11 | A series of archaeological studies in the 1960s ( e.g. Clarke 1968 ) proclaimed a science of the object based on systems theory and patterns of artefact change , or highly detailed examination of the properties of flints , bones and pottery . |
| 12 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 13 | Finally , the development of a semantic typology allows the identification of horizontal and vertical links between words , the tracing of hyponyms and hypernyms of given words , and the identification of the properties of premodifiers and postmodifiers . |
| 14 | Developing better and more precise measurement of the properties of phenomena is the key to the progress of scientific knowledge . |
| 15 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 16 | The physical events that activate our sense organs are already imperfect versions of the properties of objects that we wish to know about . |
| 17 | In this respect , the study of the properties of objects in the social sciences is quite dissimilar to equivalent studies in physics or chemistry , where statements about these properties take the form of law-like propositions . |
| 18 | The main purposes of the Bureau , which was established in September 1983 , are to improve the accessibility of macroeconomic models ; to promote general understanding of the properties of models of the UK economy ; and to allow comparisons between models to be made more easily . |
| 19 | As an example of its consistency , if we put P(B) = I , giving unc then as before unc while if P(B) = B , then unc If we multiply ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) the result repeats ( 22 ) in view of the properties of zii and ( 19 ) above ; squaring ( 22 ) yields unc in accordance with ( 18 ) . |
| 20 | Knowledge of the properties of shapes means that any exemplars can be recognized as such and distinguished from non-exemplars However , some pupils recognize some exemplars of a particular shape as such and not others . |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't been in this neck of the woods for years , and I doubt if in all her life she 's been further than Blackpool . ’ |
| 22 | He rode the lift to the seventh floor and walked the length of the deserted corridor to the last of the suites of offices . |
| 23 | He was a sociable man of great ability , but courteous and unassuming , and with great kindness and understanding of the problems of others . |
| 24 | In order to appreciate this strong feminist stance that is being taken it is necessary to understand a few of the problems of women in the Developing World . |
| 25 | This illustrates one of the problems of judges making policy decisions . |
| 26 | The match was reminiscent of the problems of schools ' football — the big school with 11 good players will always beat the village school which has only six or seven . |
| 27 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 28 | If the US could be persuaded to take a similar line , many of the problems for companies contemplating an international issue would disappear . |
| 29 | One of the problems for police investigating the crimes is that horses can be stolen in one part of the country and then swiftly transported hundreds of miles away , or even overseas . |
| 30 | One of the problems with habits is that they become so ingrained , so much part of the horse , that to try and stop the habit may make the horse extremely anxious and resistant . |