Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having paid for a private room , Lucien was escorted by a young vaporeuse through another labyrinth of corridors to a row of cubicles . |
| 10 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 11 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But for the time being , for this group of travellers at least , the party 's over . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yes , well I mean we 're aware of that and of course we went through this question of distances on Friday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a rights issue the purchaser offers to its existing shareholders the right to subscribe in cash for such number of shares in proportion to their existing holdings as will raise a sum ( after deduction of the rights issue costs ) equal to the consideration needed for the acquisition . |
| 21 | We are going to give you one week 's pay in respect of each couple of years of servi , years ' service . |
| 22 | The application of such a scheme to a set of documents should result in the ordering or arranging of that set of documents into groups or classes according to their subject content . |
| 23 | Despite this relationship of women to the home , they have little control over the nature of their housing . |
| 24 | Despite this absence of distractions to the north , however , Aethelred , king of the Mercians , exhibited no further expansionist leanings in the south . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As a result , agents of the owner , who happen to be former principals of Sotheby 's , arranged for the procurement of another set of licenses from the Lebanon ’ . |
| 27 | In the absence of another list of names in the first entrée , the harmonie rustique of the reçit and the hautbois of the first entrée may probably be construed as the same people . |
| 28 | The idea of some set of things including a cause , all of it somehow involved in the occurrence of the effect , is explicit or implicit in our ordinary thinking about the world . |
| 29 | The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity . |
| 30 | 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 . |