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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The encouragement of professional readership would allow for informed debate of issues amongst teachers . |
| 7 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 8 | Other hypotheses can also be postulated , such as over translation of transcripts of the involved genes . |
| 9 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 10 | Physiological addiction may occur after repeated use of analgesics for relief from chronic pain . |
| 11 | In due course Vernon Hunt retired and I took over as Chief Inspector of Accidents on 1 January 1974 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Frequently , one encounters a substantial claim for future loss of earnings with very inadequate vouching of the pursuer 's pre or post accident employment history . |
| 14 | ( The British crime statistics do not make it possible to ascertain the number of convictions for non-sexual violence of men against women since they do not state the sex of the victim . ) |
| 15 | A developing issue for actuaries has been the question of the possible use of professional certification of reserves for general insurance . |
| 16 | It allows the study of regional transit of solids in the unprepared human colon without the need for colon intubation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Clearly , it is the certain amount of ‘ slack ’ within the articulative relationships , the fact that the combination of techniques does not fix any constituent 100 per cent to the others , that explains the possibility of differential development of elements in the mixture — rather than ‘ changes in style ’ . |
| 19 | But there are also forms of direct access of interests to the state , notably through relationships with individual state agencies . |
| 20 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 21 | The ruling has led to some confusion , as the barrier appears to contradict the EC principle of free movement of goods across Community borders . |
| 22 | There was no evidence of enhanced phosphorylation of proteins at other molecular weights by TAGH . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While there was no evidence of widespread abuse of calculators in the examination room , the boards , he said , were attempting to anticipate possible problems . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nomvete said that nine of the 12 countries identified for the organization 's programme of gradual reduction of tariffs on trade among PTA members had already published their tariffs . |
| 27 | At earlier times , the move from full-time work to full-time retirement , through a transitional process of gradual movement of individuals through lighter and part-time employment , typically coincided with the biological transition from fitness to dependency . |
| 28 | The general climate of gradual relaxation of constraints against foreign ownership that prevailed at the end of the decade has probably extended to the Chinese and the smaller Indian local population . |
| 29 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 30 | 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 . |