Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 2 | While the regional value of whisky exports can not easily be gauged with accuracy in view of the complex nature of the industry it is interesting nevertheless to attempt an assessment of its impact . |
| 3 | But at that same moment Giles had lurched through the crowd to her side and draped a possessive arm around her shoulders , muttering through a cloud of whisky fumes that they had to talk . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 5 | The Forest of Dean Rivers and Streams |
| 6 | Roger Sanderson wants the Forest of Dean Commoners Association … a grouping of sheep farmers … to keep better control of their animals so they do n't stray onto the industrial estate and roads.The right to graze the Forest of Dean dates back thousands of years , and it 's jealously guarded by the commoners.They say its up to the businessmen to fence the sheep out if they 're proving troublesome : |
| 7 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 8 | The Forest of Dean police are also angry that they were n't warned . |
| 9 | I have woven into the account experiences ranging from a reflection on uniform patrol work , to CID and specialist squad work ; from the marginal world of a ‘ punishment posting ’ in a bridewell or prison , to the centrality of knowledge gained by spells in the centrality of headquarters postings . |
| 10 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 11 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 12 | But it also reflected the problems of headquarters managers and union leaders in monitoring and controlling activities at lower levels of the organization , and in ensuring that national agreements and regulations were respected . |
| 13 | Colin Campbell advised us that he was reporting to the General Purposes Committee on 3 December 1992 on the security of Headquarters buildings , recommending that all visitors sign in on arrival , receive and must wear a Visitor Identity Tag and sign out when leaving . |
| 14 | The decision by US President Bush in early November 1989 to reject a petition from the Timex Corporation challenging the duty-free import of watch movements for assembly in the Virgin Islands ensured the survival of about 600 jobs on St Croix . |
| 15 | There 's also a whole stack of CDROM titles including The Electronic Library of Art , Great Cities of the World , World Atlas , Chessmaster 3000 and a Sherlock Holmes interactive mystery game . |
| 16 | Over the range of moisture contents likely to be reached in air the lateral dimensions of wood can thus change between five and ten per cent , that is up to an inch on a ten-inch-wide plank . |
| 17 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |
| 18 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 19 | SIR — The management of patients with epistaxis or diffuse gut bleeding due to thrombocytopenia is difficult since platelet transfusion is often ineffective because of platelet antibodies . |
| 20 | Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips . |
| 21 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | α-granules are the most numerous of platelet organelles and they have a variety of densities and staining characteristics . |
| 23 | Local application of platelet concentrates shows potential in treating diffuse mucosal haemorrhage due to thrombocytopenia . |
| 24 | While the opportunities and limitations of fibrinolytic agents for the dissolution of whole blood clots are well known , the potential for dispersion of platelet clumps and platelet-rich thrombus has not been explored adequately . |
| 25 | The Resins Group , subsequently to become part of the Chemicals & Polymers Group , was formed in 1985 by bringing together three separate elements — the ICI Mond Division 's resin and filler activities and two polyvinyl companies acquired as part of Beatrice Chemicals . |
| 26 | Capitalist interests become threatened because the legitimacy of non-coercive regulation of capital-labour relations has not been established . |
| 27 | ‘ It runs on two IBM mainframes located in the UK and the US , ’ says Lester Tanner , ‘ and is utilised by agents , customers and thousands of AEI employees to access accounting and all kinds of other management information . ’ |
| 28 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 29 | Homebase 's first ever range of lawncare products offers customers top quality products and is excellent value for money in comparison with leading brands . |
| 30 | Charles Scott , 25 , of Findlay Gardens , Edinburgh , who admitted acting with Edmiston in one of the break-ins , was jailed for 15 months . |