Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) We moved " recent critical appraisal " after our analysis of powers of description and humour because these sections give our own critical appraisal ; now , by the time we outline other people 's opinions we have something to compare them with , and can therefore do something more interesting than just repeat them . |
| 2 | He worried about her lack of friends of her own age , yes , even male friends . |
| 3 | Gilbert and Ward found that renters made up 36.4 per cent of their sample of inhabitants of spontaneous housing settlements in Bogota , 12.7 per cent of those in Mexico City and 4.5 per cent in Valencia ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Through the application of her knowledge of theories of interaction , the student will learn to develop constructive relationships with patients . |
| 5 | For this purpose , it will be useful to divide our attention between three different aspects of a literary work of fiction , corresponding to the three functions : Chapter 6 : Work as MESSAGE ( ideational function ) Chapter 7 : Work as TEXT ( textual function ) Chapter 8 : Work as DISCOURSE ( interpersonal function ) These three chapters form the nucleus of our investigation of aspects of style . |
| 6 | The answer is in Aerospace Research Index which is one of our set of directories of research institutes in the field of science and technology . |
| 7 | In thinking about the terms " active " and " contemplative " in medieval devotional writing , however , it is important not to confuse their use to designate outward life-styles with their designation of modes of being which enable argument about the purposes of man 's existence . |
| 8 | With his ignorance of decisions of the present went an even more comprehensive ignorance about decisions of the past . |
| 9 | This was found by the staff of the R.C.H.M. ( England ) in their survey of earthworks of the county for publication in a special volume which is now in the press . |
| 10 | In the same way men have enhanced their success as human beings rather than as mere primates by exercising discrimination in their choice of symbols of excellence . |
| 11 | They did not consider the introduction of a poll tax in their review of sources of local taxation . |
| 12 | La Fontaine , in her review of studies of British kinship suggests that there seems to be ‘ a preference for particular siblings rather than a general solidarity with brothers and sisters ’ ( La Fontaine , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 13 | Editor , — In her review of methods of assessing students Stella Lowry argues the need for methods of assessment that match learning objectives . |
| 14 | The picture painted by the Commission 's report on inner London is as gruesome as any ever presented ( and is itself revealing of common prejudices in its choice of indicators of deprivation ) : |
| 15 | In his discussion of accidents of personality Plekhanov offers no defence of his claim that these can never outweigh the causal influence of the mode of production and resulting social relations . |
| 16 | In his discussion of transgressions of ontological levels in which characters are instrumental , McHale remarks that ‘ Characters often serve as agents or ‘ carriers ’ of metalepsis , disturbers of the ontological hierarchy of levels through their awareness of the recursive structures in which they find themselves ' ( 1987:121 ) . |
| 17 | In his highly influential critical works , Jean Ricardou was particularly adamant in his condemnation of readings of nouveaux romans which suggest a mimetic motivation of any kind . |
| 18 | In our discussion of theories of crime , in Chapter Two , we examined various theoretical approaches which centred on class differences in crime and , in particular , juvenile delinquency . |
| 19 | I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | Prospective members are concerned with the total effects on their balance of payments of joining the CU . |
| 21 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 22 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 23 | There are many countries and many greedy persons who will suffer themselves to be gulled by my promise of mountains of gold . |
| 24 | The portrait as genre here serves its traditional function in a postmodern world of fragmentation and exerts control on the narratives of subjectivity ( sitter/artist/spectator ) by its articulation of notions of continuity within syntactical disruption . |
| 25 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 26 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |