Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president 's speech also indicated a degree of unity between staff and students . |
| 2 | There is no single pattern of assessment of people 's needs . |
| 3 | Methysergide , R-zacopride , and SC53116 significantly inhibited the increased transit induced by 5HT ; indeed , the geometric centres of isotope with ia 5HT and these agents given ip were less than the value observed with ia saline alone ( Table I ) . |
| 4 | ANDY PARKES sets-up a tank full of oddballs for £250 |
| 5 | The second concerned the scale of decentralization of people and industry from a congested centre . |
| 6 | The process of re-selection of MPs has forced fewer changes than might have been expected : only six were rejected prior to the 1987 election . |
| 7 | This represents a maximum of 1.25kg per 25kg bag . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only in the case of money , over which men may retain control even when the domestic division of labour is less rigid , might one expect them to be more actively involved in exchanges of support with kin . |
| 10 | It is obvious that we are bound to find considerable variation in people 's experience of support between kin . |
| 11 | Without doubt variation by gender is a key element in patterns of support between kin . |
| 12 | Patterns of support between kin can not be understood without first making some reference to the ways in which the structure of the population , and patterns of family formation associated with it , have themselves changed over time . |
| 13 | Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ? |
| 14 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 15 | The common ground between historians is that reciprocal exchange on the basis of mutual advantage is the essence of support between kin , making the family a group whose relationships are rooted in material considerations and not simply one which is bound together by moral imperatives and ties of affection . |
| 16 | How are we to reconcile or decide between these competing and very different accounts of the basis of support between kin in the past ? |
| 17 | When we look at circumstances in the past , and see the patterns of support between kin which prevailed at any given point , we are looking at situations very different from our own in important and relevant ways . |
| 18 | In principle , it would be quite possible to argue that this sense of obligation had weakened , even if the actual volume of support between kin remained at a substantial level , because more people are now in a situation where they need support , and because the economic circumstances of the majority of the population ( by comparison with a century earlier ) are much easier . |
| 19 | Erm again a little bit of support from people who worked in the area . |
| 20 | All the same there is a growing swell of support for electoral reform within the Labour movement and a good deal of support among MPs . |
| 21 | The ‘ Keep Sunday Special ’ option has a lot of support among MPs . |
| 22 | 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 ) |
| 23 | 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 ) |
| 24 | The rate of change in media will continue at this pace for some years and we can take nothing for granted . |
| 25 | It goes on to explain how audiovisual media , and video in particular , can be used to help bring about a process of change in people 's lives . |
| 26 | Human capabilities to reason about complex systems states and the propagation of failure and associated systems are all available within the trained diagnostician , but can break down or fail for a variety of reasons including data overload , incomplete information and fatigue . |
| 27 | In tests of products in sales packs , there should always be included in the test control samples of the product packaged in inert impermeable containers . |
| 28 | ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’ |
| 29 | You may even feel your skin crawling after a difficult meeting or with the impact of crowds of people . |
| 30 | Instead , the best accounts of the ‘ causes ’ of language are social and psychological , where language is seen as occurring as a result of interactions between people and their environments . |