Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Secrett takes over as executive director of Friends of the Earth in April . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Other hypotheses can also be postulated , such as over translation of transcripts of the involved genes . |
| 7 | These may include , for example , getting certain undertakings signed by the borrower ( eg as to replies ) within six months , giving banker 's orders for future payment of instalments of interest and capital , etc . |
| 8 | In particular I wish to address the development of the OPAC and the associated issue of retrospective conversion of catalogues of ‘ important ’ collections and networked access to them . |
| 9 | We are going to give you one week 's pay in respect of each couple of years of servi , years ' service . |
| 10 | It would also have the incidental advantage of further clarification of expectations of managers . |
| 11 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 12 | We believe that if the wipers did start , even if certain changes had taken place in the situation , there would have occurred an instance of one or another member of this set of types of circumstances . |
| 13 | In particular it relies on estimating the final cost of the investment , the amount and timing of returns , the rate of return on the alternative investment ( the ‘ hurdle rate ’ ) and the rate of real deterioration of items of productive capital . |
| 14 | The distortions of communication which occur in these social institutions are as they are , as a result , in part , of unconscious activity of groups of people over time . |
| 15 | The RSPB uncovers dozens of cases every year of illegal persecution of birds of prey on estates and farms throughout Scotland , but successful prosecutions are difficult to achieve because of the detailed evidence required . |
| 16 | The British banana company , Geest , has been accused of illegal felling of areas of rainforest in north-east Costa Rica , next to the Tortuguero National Park . |
| 17 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 18 | She was being investigated in connection with East Germany 's policy of forced adoption of children of politically suspect citizens . |
| 19 | There is no information on the sinking characteristics of Thalassiothrix mats but new data from sediment trap studies have highlighted the significance of mass sinking of mats of rhizosolenid diatoms as agents of rapid flux to the sea floor . |
| 20 | For a corpus of 2 million words the frequency of adjacent occurrence of groups of 2 and 3 words was determined and stored in a transition matrix . |
| 21 | There can be little doubt that its potential is very great , as it provides the opportunity for effective teaching of skills of finding and using information within a context of high pupil interest . |
| 22 | The next four chapters are all concerned with some aspect of systems of representation — in reading , writing , computation , and pictorial representation . |
| 23 | I have also killed some beautiful albatrosses , petrels , ducks etc. and four nests with full compliment of eggs of the Black Oystercatcher , small and large gulls , a Teal etc. besides a nest with young of the Emu Wren and other minor things . |
| 24 | According to a doctor with considerable experience of cases of dyslexia , the boy was ‘ moderately dyslexic , but the effects … are offset by his exceptionally high IQ which means that those effects are modified but not eliminated … . |
| 25 | A function may be defined with any number of parameters of any type , and may return ( using = ) a string or numeric result . |
| 26 | A procedure may be defined with any number of parameters of any type . |
| 27 | There are probably too many official visiting bodies concerned with external monitoring of standards of service . |
| 28 | We are now back where we were in Elizabeth I 's days : a middle power , making our way in a world dominated by two superpowers , and doing so through intuitive manipulation of balances of power , as we have always done over the centuries . |
| 29 | Centres will not immediately be affected , with the exception of those who , by agreement , become involved in small-scale piloting of aspects of the new Framework . |
| 30 | No numerical restriction on the number of licences in any particular area is allowed , however the section makes it a ground of refusal that the grant of the licence applied for would result in over provision of facilities of the kind to be provided under the licence . |