Example sentences of "[verb] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets . |
| 2 | Parents will be interested to know of the sort of records that will be kept on their children . |
| 3 | They also called for wider consultations , and a meeting between the US Department of the Interior and the Belau Olbil era Kelulau ( OEK — National Congress , consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate ) to discuss the document was scheduled for September 1990 . |
| 4 | Measured photographs of these dolls , reminding of the documentation of immigrants arriving at Staten Island , hang on the surrounding walls . |
| 5 | Instead , some examples will be given of the type of claims that have been made in the courts of the United Kingdom , Australia , and the United States , and of the responses that have been favoured by these domestic courts . |
| 6 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 7 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |
| 8 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 9 | And this is an introduction to look really you 'll experience of the work of archaeologists . |
| 10 | I have heard of the practice of solicitors buying local searches from the vendor 's solicitors , in order to save time , but I do not know whether this is widespread . |
| 11 | And you 're wondering , I mean I do n't think we can expect of the advice of charities now , or very little , you know , and , and they 've got to be very , very careful |
| 12 | ‘ I do remember , at the discussions with Verity , they even had a few sketches done of the kind of clothes she would wear . |
| 13 | In the context of a management buy-out , Newco would need to satisfy the holding company test , namely its business must consist of the holding of shares or securities of its 75% subsidiaries . |
| 14 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 15 | Administrative tasks would lose their exploitative character and consist of the administration of things , not the repression of people . |
| 16 | Henry of Huntingdon had in his youth heard very old men speak of the slaughter of Danes in England during the massacre of St Brice 's Day in 1002 , but neither he , nor his contemporaries Florence and William of Malmesbury , relied solely on such evidence . |
| 17 | Moreover , before we speak of the transfer of powers , we should remember that these men were not nineteenth-century constitutional lawyers , any more than they were eleventh-century papal reformers . |
| 18 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 19 | In both the Branch Establishments Scheme and the Manpower Planning Information System , considerable use is made of the ability of computers to perform large volumes of calculations with consistent accuracy . |
| 20 | Indeed , during what was the longest obscenity trial in British publishing history , great play was made of the involvement of schoolchildren , one of the charges being that the editors : |
| 21 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 22 | A calculation is made of the percentage of non-arrivals , cancellations and guests that terminate their stay earlier than expected . |
| 23 | From each venous sample , 100 sets of chromosomes were examined , and counts made of the frequency of cells containing dicentric chromosomes with dissimilar chromosome fragments . |
| 24 | They are made of the kind of ingredients that wild fish eat — insects , shrimps , meat , fish , and algae are among the usual list . |
| 25 | Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies . |
| 26 | On the central issue raised by the subtitle of the show , art in or out of the mainstream , some statistical study was made of the representation of women artists and the milestones in their careers . |
| 27 | To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on . |
| 28 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 29 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |
| 30 | During both World Wars less was made of the effect of women 's work on childbearing and childrearing . |