Example sentences of "[vb -s] of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets . |
| 2 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 3 | That deprives Japanese of the space that , in other rich countries , would be used to accommodate the domestic fantasies whose purchase occupies the weekends and disposes of the earnings of workers . |
| 4 | The orthodox Catholic Church disapproves of the use of contraceptives and regards the state family planning programme as an attack on moral decency and a licence for sexual promiscuity . |
| 5 | This pattern consists of the presence of cells staining with the 3G8 and RFD9 antibodies . |
| 6 | This focuses on theory and consists of the interpretation of ideas within their own terms of reference , within the context of their own theoretical provenance , and the evaluation of their relevance or validity in principle with reference to the domain of enquiry which constitutes the context of application . |
| 7 | A picture in this sense consists of the collection of symptoms which characterise the remedy or the patient with his illness . |
| 8 | However he does admit ‘ madrigalisms ’ such as the agonized chromatic harmonies in which the Evangelist tells of the crown of thorns . |
| 9 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 10 | Unless I have missed it earlier in this debate , I think there may be a point of clarification which may need to be made er with the result of yesterday 's decision , and that is that section two , which we 're now discussing , speaks of the position of parents who are not communicant members . |
| 11 | A notable example of this is the decree of the Second Vatican Council ‘ Gaudium et Spes ’ which speaks of the dignity of persons , men and women alike . |
| 12 | According to the motto , the words carved in granite outside our dock gates , a settlement in Africa raises no doubts : the great Roman god approves of the mingling of peoples and the making of treaties in Africa . |
| 13 | Indeed , this chapter may also itself be seen as the result of feminist activity within sociology , in that analyses of the position of women in society are no longer confined to chapters on the family . |
| 14 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that a least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |
| 15 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that at least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |