Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the majority of women are engaged at least for part of their lives in full-time domestic work , especially while their children are young . |
| 2 | They derive from both the operation of large units ( often highly mechanised and characterised by monoculture and high energy demands sometimes supplied from local sources ) ; and the small peasantry itself which has to work for part of its income on larger enterprises . |
| 3 | Interim Committee ( Oct. 13-14 with the attendance for part of its proceedings of a Soviet delegation ) . |
| 4 | The railway line ran between various buildings and a high wooden fence that was used for part of its length for advertisement hoardings . |
| 5 | A registered student may be excused enrolment for part of his course of study or research following his election or appointment to office in any representative student body approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Senate , and a student so excused shall remain a registered student for as long as may be approved by the Senate . |
| 6 | Attention focused on the bond market after the Government raised Pounds 1.3bn by selling off part of its debt in BT and the privatised utilities . |
| 7 | However , it is the first time that ICL has split off part of its business to the extent of actually forming a new subsidiary . |
| 8 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 9 | The vendor is likely to have disclosed its articles as part of its disclosures against the warranties . |
| 10 | Reading-based standards organisation X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of Digital Equipment Corp 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing : X/Open has licensed the company 's Remote Task Invocation technology , a protocol for implementing remote procedure calls developed for the Multivendor Integration Architecture consortium ; it is the basis of the Transactional Remote Procedure Call X/Open just released and unites OSI/TP and Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 11 | X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of DEC 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing . |
| 12 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 13 | The small region , with its coal and steel resources , had not been treated by France as part of its zone of occupation after 1945 . |
| 14 | Schering-Plough managing director Tony Cork said his team was relocating as part of its plans for further growth . |
| 15 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 16 | ‘ The department will also decide to send staff on courses as part of its responsibility for the development of professional and non-professional staff ’ … |
| 17 | As part of its contribution to the Robert Adam bicentenary celebrations in 1992 , the National Library is publishing two books on the architect . |
| 18 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 19 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the National Trust is organising the rebuilding of walls in the county as part of its contribution to Landscape Year . |
| 21 | The firm will be accused of distributing software illegally as part of its service to subscribers . |
| 22 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 23 | So , as part of its deregulation of television , the government has established a new TV watchdog , the Broadcasting Standards Council ( BSC ) , to assume custodianship of the nation 's morals . |
| 24 | Cosmetics group Body Shop International has awarded contracts for the construction of a 10-MW wind farm in mid-Wales , as part of its drive for energy self-sufficiency . |
| 25 | SCOTTISH Nuclear is considering buying fuel from abroad for its nuclear power stations at Torness and Hunterston as part of its drive to cuts its costs by 25 per cent over the next few years . |
| 26 | The main beneficiary was the UK , which received grants of ECU21.7 million as part of its rebate on over-contributions to the EC budget , followed by Italy with ECU8.9 million . |
| 27 | The demonstrations had been planned by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) as part of its campaign for the suspension of the government 's economic reform programme [ see p. 38751 ] and the repeal of new labour legislation . |
| 28 | As part of its campaign against him , it published a grossly prejudicial article under the headline ‘ Doc Groped . ’ |
| 29 | The Inter-Union Assembly — National Convention of Workers ( PIT-CNT — the trade union confederation ) organized a 24-hour general strike on Jan. 17 as part of its campaign against the economic policies of the government of President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera . |
| 30 | Though no-one has been injured , the incidents are potentially damaging to the SNP which has not ruled out civil disobedience as part of its campaign against water privatisation . |