Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are insurance subsidiaries set up to insure some or all of the risks of a group of companies . |
| 2 | These developments were greatly facilitated and consolidated by the personal characteristics of a series of kings . |
| 3 | The papers presented at TEP'92 describe the objectives , content , learning strategies and assessment methods of a number of courses currently being mounted and all concerned with aspects of EP . |
| 4 | Some changed their paper-types , and others were persistent readers of a myriad of papers with individual readerships too small for us to analyse ( the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald , and regional English papers , for example ) . |
| 5 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 6 | Soma the father pursues Nianakoro the son across the landscape with the help of a stout magic pole borne on the shoulders of a couple of servants . |
| 7 | They expect to be net importers of a variety of items — varying from computers to television programming . |
| 8 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 9 | If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises . |
| 10 | It is true that the shells of a number of Archaeogastropods , including the ormer Haliotis , have been found to vary in colour according to their diet . |
| 11 | In practice , clients of a firm of solicitors ( if not so readily creditors ) will usually be informed of a change in the membership quite speedily . |
| 12 | Lively recordings of a selection of readers from each level are available on cassette . |
| 13 | It is not surprising , therefore , that much of the clinical teacher 's time is spent in teaching combinations of a variety of skills . |
| 14 | Developing even further the gommage technique of his previous novels , this novel presents permutations and combinations of a set of elements subject to revision , repetition , and repetition with variation . |
| 15 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 16 | After these relatively brief accounts of a variety of approaches to the study of consumption as a social phenomenon , one particular perspective demands more substantial resumé and analysis . |
| 17 | Indeed , the parallel is very close to the consolidation of the accounts of a group of companies , although this will depend upon the manner in which the consolidation is effected . |
| 18 | As with the consolidation of the accounts of a group of companies , this does not only involve aggregation : there is also the elimination of any inter-fund balances to preclude double-counting . |
| 19 | There 's a portfolio of properties at the high values of a couple of years ago . |
| 20 | The values of a set of attributes will distinguish one entity occurrence from another . |
| 21 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |
| 22 | She first made an impression in an adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's rambling tale about a group of travelling performers , The Good Companions ( 1933 ) , and followed that with Friday the Thirteenth ( 1933 ) , which recounts the activities of a group of characters immediately before the crash of the bus in which they are riding . |
| 23 | Unfortunately many editors feel that this kind of creativity is absent from the activities of a number of PROs . |
| 24 | Focusing upon the development and activities of a number of groups in contrasting counties , the study pays close attention to their social composition , ideology and role in attempting to ensure that a consensus can develop around the provisions of the Act . |
| 25 | The intention of the Loyal Standard was overtly to co-ordinate the activities of a number of seamen 's organisations , established about the north-east coast with almost identical rules , and to administer a superannuation fund on the one hand and payments on shipwreck , sickness and death on the other . |
| 26 | It became the best selling tennis book ever and has affected the competitive approach and attitudes of a number of sportsmen . |
| 27 | Meadows and Wood ( 1991 ) conducted some small scale research into the attitudes of a group of parents with primary aged children in LEA schools and a group with children in independent schools . |
| 28 | Sybil Hurcombe has sold hundreds of copies of a book of poems which she wrote in memory of her daughter , Lorraine . |
| 29 | One of two surviving copies of a list of saints ' resting places in England was produced in New Minster Winchester in Cnut 's time . |
| 30 | This barren and featureless area offers no promise of adventure , yet within a mile of the viaduct the unlikely terrain yields the secrets of a score of caves and potholes to those who search and succeed in locating them : some are easy , some are difficult , some are dangerous , and most remain shyly hidden . |