Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Secrett takes over as executive director of Friends of the Earth in April . |
| 2 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 3 | The EC labelling will revolve around an international panel , comprising representatives of industry , trade unions , environmentalists and consumers , who will draw up criteria for each group of products on a " cradle to grave " basis . |
| 4 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 5 | Looms weave from spools of yarn , one for each line of tufts in the carpet pattern , to produce such carpets as Glenmore , Medici , Caithness , First Edition , Cottage and Studio . |
| 6 | This has implications for advanced training of students in techniques relevant to modern industrial processes , it severely limits the ability of lecturing staff to be fully up to date with new technologies and it limits the ability to provide ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology and training at tertiary level for both indigenous and multinational companies . |
| 7 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 8 | The piece 's unity and momentum derives in part from the reappearance between each section of versions of the riotous opening fanfare , a set of hidden variations of their own , and in part from recurrences of thematic material . |
| 9 | This has discredited the idea of widespread government involvement in running the economy and undermined those arguing for extensive redistribution of incomes on grounds of fairness . |
| 10 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 11 | In the field of intellectual property the EC has ambitious plans for further harmonization of rights throughout the Community and , ultimately , the development of Community-wide rights . |
| 12 | Yet there remained room for further definition of boundaries in matrimonial , moral and testamentary suits , and the very specific terms of the writ left , by implication , other areas open to royal poaching later . |
| 13 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 14 | Having paid for a private room , Lucien was escorted by a young vaporeuse through another labyrinth of corridors to a row of cubicles . |
| 15 | The new functionality includes distributed schemas that can be shared by application developers to ease development of related applications ; detachable databases for more flexible distribution of databases ; on-line incremental backup and restore for high availability of databases in production environments ; schema evolution and object migration for upgrading deployed object applications and new database administrative tools and programmatic interfaces so developers can include database administration functions in applications . |
| 16 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 17 | The encouragement of professional readership would allow for informed debate of issues amongst teachers . |
| 18 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 19 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 20 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 21 | It was therefore not hard to think up entertaining themes and commission a bunch of lively articles for this issue of theNI on the subject of the underground economy . |
| 22 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 23 | But for the time being , for this group of travellers at least , the party 's over . |
| 24 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 25 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 26 | The reasons for this allocation of lawyers to cells will become apparent as the deviant cases — those in which the client 's chosen outcome was rejected — and the doubtful cases are examined . |
| 27 | Other hypotheses can also be postulated , such as over translation of transcripts of the involved genes . |
| 28 | You can fit drawer chests inside the units for easier storage of items like underwear and socks , or you could use sliding baskets in a rack for the same purpose . |
| 29 | Yes , well I mean we 're aware of that and of course we went through this question of distances on Friday . |
| 30 | He can only be placed in the lying position for effective treatment purposes when he can balance well enough to be taken through this pattern of movements without increasing his spasticity . |