Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Interest in local politics led him to become a member of Liverpool town council and Lancashire county council ; he also served as chairman of Liverpool chamber of commerce .
2 She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) .
3 The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation .
4 In accordance with a request from the Association of Charity Officers , it is confirmed that an amount of £5,000 from public funds provided through the Association of Charity Officers has been received by the Association and utilised for provision of physiotherapy equipment for the new Therapy Wing at Sussexdown .
5 Last October Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , minister of state for health and social work at the Scottish Office , announced what was described as ‘ the last of the major building blocks for full implementation of the government 's community care policy ’ — the finance for provision of community care by local authorities in the coming year .
6 The latest round of talks aimed at achieving a consensus on the UN peace plan for Cambodia took place in Paris on Dec. 21-22 [ see p. 37858 for finalization of peace plan at a meeting in Paris in late November ] .
7 Beneath the respectable front of many local organisations there had developed only too frequently , as the men of the north-east had earlier predicted , a form of legalised crimping operated between Board of Trade staff at Mercantile Marine Offices and boarding house keepers who were only too happy to supply seamen at a profit to themselves .
8 ‘ Mixed fund ’ assets which partly back taxable life assurance business and partly exempt pension business will qualify for deferral of corporation tax on chargeable gains when a life assurance company transfers all or part of its long-term business to another company , according to a new Inland Revenue statement of practice ( SP 7/93 ) .
9 It seems that we reach a better generalization about direction of vowel change in BV if we override contrastive phoneme theory here .
10 The students are the first to come to Bradford as part of exchange agreements with the University of Carleton , Ottowa and Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburg .
11 I mean it 's almost like as as part of y'know kind of the general the general gossip of everyday life .
12 Wing Commander Hughie Edwards , CO of 105 Squadron , let a daring low level daylight raid against the German industrial city of Bremen as part of Operation Wreckage in July 1 ‘ 941 .
13 Meanwhile , equipment from the now disbanded NVA is being sold by public auction , and a number of vehicles have been despatched as part of aid packages to Mozambique and Eritrea .
14 It was developed as part of Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and goes under the unexciting name of X Window .
15 Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities .
16 Many first level nurses ( although still a minority ) now undertake basic nurse education as part of undergraduate study for a degree in nursing , social or life sciences .
17 Response includes search and rescue ( including the need to cope with secondary threats such as contamination of water supplies after an explosion , or fire following an earthquake ) .
18 It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area .
19 It did , however , ‘ create a demand for infusion of development funds into increasingly more jurisdictions .
20 The club is pressing for recognition of decompression sickness as an NHS liability .
21 But to be fair , they include special compensation for loss of share options in the parent , Mercury International , when it was floated as a separate company earlier this year .
22 In Andersen Consulting v CHP Consulting Ltd. ( 1991 ) , a case concerning a dispute about maintenance of computer software by third parties , it was said that confidence is frequently used in connection with copyright material as it is : of course notorious that copyright protects only the expression of ideas and does not protect the idea itself
23 Firstly , a distinction must be made between screening of family members of probands with the disease and screening athletes for cardiac disease , including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy .
24 East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns .
25 Its role has been ‘ to provide reassurance to the government , to give support to policies which BR wish to pursue , to provide briefing material for Department of Transport Ministers in argument and negotiations with ministerial colleagues , and to provide an atmosphere of professionalism and control over the business which governments — and the public — expect ’ ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) .
26 ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’
27 Others have been published in the different book series which WACC supports , or in theme after theme of Media Development over the past 15 years .
28 Chromatographic analysis was performed on serum samples obtained 20 minutes postprandially before and after eradication of H pylori in six patients .
29 At one month after eradication of H pylori in duodenal ulcer patients we observed a more marked rise in postprandial pH consistent with a reduced acid response to the meal .
30 We have show , however , that there is no change in parietal cell sensitivity to gastrin after eradication of H pylori in duodenal ulcer patients .
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