Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 2 | This involves an awareness of the activities and requirements of the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) and of the validation processes in higher education ( particularly , until its demise , of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) ) which control courses of teacher education . |
| 3 | Gorbachev on Jan. 5 decreed that " in order to activate the implementation of land reform " republican and local authorities should make an inventory of " lands which are not being used in a rational manner by collective and state farms " , and of the land holdings of USSR ministries , with a view to making these available leasehold to private farmers and as allotments for town dwellers . |
| 4 | Thousands of embittered clients of various licensed dealers , and of the bucket shops on the Continent on whom were foisted speculative shares bear testimony to this . |
| 5 | According to the feedback model , the hypotheses of the controllers about football fans , and of the football fans about the mentality of the controllers , will determine the direction and intensity of the amplification process . |
| 6 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 7 | For simple molecules , some PE bands may show discrete structure due to vibrational excitation of the ion ; this may be interpreted in terms both of the bonding/non-bonding/anti-bonding character of the electron removed and of the vibration frequencies of the ion . |
| 8 | Tables of lexicographers and of the group memberships of lexicographers are created and maintained by the database administrator . |
| 9 | Central to the appraisal of new capital expenditure proposals is the estimation of the size and timing of the cash outflows required to purchase labour and materials and of the cash inflows from invoiced sales of goods . |
| 10 | When he talks of taking the war to the terrorists , I must reassert from the Dispatch Box that the actions of Her Majesty 's Government , and of the security forces on their behalf , will be conducted under the rule of law and that the rule of law will not be thrown away , for that would be a concession to the terrorists . |
| 11 | Now , the emphasis is on pay agreements that will meet the specific needs of the civil service and of the executive agencies throughout the country , rather than on maintaining an unnecessarily rigid or uniform structure — a structure which did not necessarily produce the best results in the past . |
| 12 | Given that the main aims of most arts departments , and of the examination syllabuses in arts subjects , refer to the development of such qualities as ‘ imagination ’ , ‘ creativity ’ , and the ‘ ability to respond expressively to given stimuli ’ ; qualities that are essentially concerned with that same kind of engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ mentioned above , and we are left asking the question ‘ Can , or even should , children 's work in the arts be examined at all ? ’ |
| 13 | There are indications that this at last is changing , partly because of the court cases of the last few years . |
| 14 | Many less well-equipped ships would have gone through that interlink only at Firstlight speed , and then nervously — because of the horror tales of ships that slid through the wrong slots and were caught in endless loops round and round the interlink for centuries . |
| 15 | Several hon. Members have highlighted the position of carers who may be disadvantaged because of the capital rules on income support . |
| 16 | Infra-national comparisons could be expected to vary considerably , and may not be statistically valid , because of the size differences between departments within UK universities . |
| 17 | It is , however , unfortunate that many old people are at risk of injury because of the home circumstances in which they live ; some of these hazards could relatively easily be removed . |
| 18 | It was also apparent from the observational data that Easton 's section police are occasionally presented with difficult encounters between public and police because of the gender differences in police work . |
| 19 | They made love , clumsily because of the plaster casts on his legs , while somewhere a patient shouted in delirium . |
| 20 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |
| 21 | The packaging of imported products has continued to fascinate him , for intrinsic qualities — — the names , the colours and the designs — but also no doubt because of the way products from far away have been integrated into the domestic Mexican environment . |
| 22 | They do not however use this data to temper their judgements , with the result that a school may be praised because of the intake characteristics of the pupils rather than because of anything it has done . |
| 23 | Second , dealings with or for other members of the firm 's group will normally be subject to SFA 's transaction reporting requirements , even if they are not investment business ( because of the group exemptions in para 18 of Sched 1 ) and even though they are not subject to the general COB Rules ; certain compliance rules , for example those relating to personal account dealings , will also normally apply in relation to them . |
| 24 | Little came of this , partly because of the resistance from regional newspapers , and partly because of the Jacobin traditions of a government little inclined to decentralize . |
| 25 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |