Example sentences of "[adv] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 2 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 3 | The linking together of a series of sounds . |
| 4 | The last fragment , D , consists entirely of a list of names . |
| 5 | Many sediments are composed not of one single grain size population , but rather of a combination of sub-populations . |
| 6 | For example , a site may consist largely of a number of postholes , all dating to the Neolithic period . |
| 7 | We hear also of a series of disasters visited by God on the country , in order to force the Egyptians ' hands . |
| 8 | Now I still have a large family composed of the family I was born into ( some of it ) and also of a family of friends , sisters , brothers , mothers and children that I have chosen . |
| 9 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 10 | The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) . |
| 11 | Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows . |
| 12 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 13 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 14 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |
| 15 | Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface . |
| 16 | Well I think the the overall housing figures which were contained in the approved structure plan , made up of a range of sites and allocations . |
| 17 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 18 | Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike . |
| 19 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 20 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 21 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 22 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |
| 23 | The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement . |
| 24 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |
| 25 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 26 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
| 27 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 28 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 29 | Lough Lannagh is made up of a series of lakes containing deep holes and is known as a dangerous area for swimming . |
| 30 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |