Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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31 An alternative method , useful in some cases , is to express frequency in terms of the ratio of occurrences of one category to occurrences of another : for example , the ratio of nouns to adjectives .
32 Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible .
33 ( Lund Humphries on behalf of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics .
34 A meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the current 24 members in Madrid on Feb. 21 was expected to confirm the decision .
35 The chairman is also a member of the Committee of Heads of Science Departments .
36 A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years .
37 The important , but neglected , problem of the range of scales of uplift associated with thermal mechanisms is addressed by Le Bas ( 1980 ) , and the idea of lithospheric vulnerability is presented by Pollack et al.
38 These criteria are only intended to give a very general indication of the range of aspects of the work that would need to feature in any future evaluation .
39 ABOVE TOP Typology is the study of the development of artefacts of the same type to build up a dated sequence .
40 Problem solving is an important part of the work of researchers of all descriptions , as well as medical diagnosticians , archaeologists , translators , historians , detectives , accountants , designers and taxonoms , but few of these fields have contributed to the problem-solving literature ( excepting detective fiction ) .
41 It created some problems , which prompted the issue of the Ordinance of Labourers of 1349 and the later statute of 1351 , which attempted to limit mobility of labour and to peg wage-rates at the 1346 level .
42 However , how can this phenomenon be illuminated by means of the metaphor of levels of programming language , on which view the ‘ lower activities ’ are inscrutable at the ‘ higher level ’ , given that , after a road accident , say , I can by conscious effort retrain myself to walk properly ?
43 He was opposed on this point by the German naturalist Moritz Wagner , whose book The Darwinian Theory and the Law of the Migration of Organisms of 1868 insisted on the need for a period of geographical isolation .
44 A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them .
45 The big scroll in the frieze between Pope Calixtus II and the Emperor Henry V contained the first words of the text of the Concordat of Worms of 1122 , with the rest of the text to be found elsewhere in the hall .
46 You are quite likely to find specimens of the majority of forms of I , aquifolium and I. x altaclarensis in the garden centres and tree-and-shrub nurseries within striking distance of where you live .
47 The real achievement of headhunting in Britain , which indicates the new maturity of the industry , has been a gradual but discernible change in the attitude of the majority of users of search .
48 May I ask a question of the majority of manufacturers of wood boring bits ?
49 The demonstration of the evolution and the transformations of types of property is as central to their work as the demonstration of the evolution of relations of production .
50 Chapter I of the Convention contains fresh provisions for the operation of the system of Letters of Request .
51 It was a combination of the determination of groups of older people and the active support from local works that enabled the organisation to develop .
52 As a final instance of the merging of interests of carp angler and pondkeeper , many waters are now stocking up with ghost Koi ( Ogon/Common carp crosses ) , not to mention Orfe and Grass carp .
53 They can be seen in the centrality of the notion of traditions of behaviour in conservative thought as contrasted with ( pace Hayek ) the more rationalistic temperament of liberalism .
54 Only two were Manchus , but the rest provided an excellent sample of the width of the spectrum of variations of species homo which inhabited the worlds of the Imperium .
55 At the assimilation end of the spectrum of representations of care programming in community care plans , local authorities appear to refer to it formally , signalling their awareness , but with little or no discussion in the care plan of the relevance of care programmes for social services , examples being Croydon and Lambeth .
56 This ‘ population calculation ’ is also relevant to our judgement of the plausibility of theories of the origin of life .
57 A communiqué issued at the end of the talks said that " Iran and Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) have agreed to set up a joint commission to review the resumption of the exchange of prisoners of war " .
58 The attempt was not to take a sample of the total black population , but of the minority of sportsmen of proven excellence .
59 The novel biological behaviour of the prion is gaining acceptance , but the traditional idea of a small virus ( virino ) controlled by nucleic acid is not yet abandoned and is a preferred explanation of the existence of strains of experimental scrapie .
60 However , by asking members of the elite group questions such as ‘ How many members of the group have you worked with on committees ? ’ , and ‘ How well do you know each member of the group ? ’ and ‘ Whose support would be necessary for a major project to get substantial community backing ? ’ , some elite studies of community power have revealed remarkable consensuses about the existence of elite groups , and about their power , and have supported such findings with demonstrations of the interaction of members of the supposed elite groups .
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