Example sentences of "[vb pp] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Endosternites are typically formed of a pair of apophyses arising from pits on the eusterna between the basisternum and sternellum . |
| 2 | The glen is deeply enclosed by lofty mountain ranges , each side formed of a succession of peaks linked by ridges . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've heard of a rain of diamonds ? |
| 4 | They are possessed of a handful of skills and attributes which many of the rest of us lack , such as numeracy , and a general ungullability , and ( presumably ) a penchant for cryptography , so that they can actually penetrate and comprehend the tortuous laws and regulations they must administer . |
| 5 | Many of these prices are established in organised markets ( such as the stock exchange ) which , in recent years , have been freed of a number of restrictions on their activities . |
| 6 | In addition , use will be made of a series of articles concerning the nature of modern culture . |
| 7 | In 1990 , he was accused of a conflict of interests between his role as chairman of the Commons Defence Committee and his business ventures . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been accused of a lot of things , ’ Sabine said coolly . |
| 9 | Maxwell 's sons Kevin and Ian and their American financial adviser Larry Trachtenberg are also on bail accused of a series of offences . |
| 10 | On this view , the generality of the word ‘ man ’ is no different from that of ‘ John ’ which , after all , can itself be used of a number of things . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 12 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 13 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 14 | For example , we can characterise the human body as a system which is comprised of a number of sub-systems . |
| 15 | Not only should an understanding be gained of a history of losses , but also of the potential for new attachments . |
| 16 | The practical effects on the reporting unit can be seen more readily when a proprietary view is taken of a group of companies . |
| 17 | The list is composed of a variety of types of problem including those traditionally accepted as legal by both lawyer and client , those regarded as legal by lawyers but not necessarily by clients and those not normally viewed by either as legal . |
| 18 | Some processes involving simple treatment of yarn or fabric with an aqueous solution , such as yarn-sizing or back-filling , require very little water , whereas others , composed of a sequence of operations with many rinses , demand large quantities . |
| 19 | In the brain , the olfactory system appears to be composed of a sequence of layers of nodes with no obvious geometric structure . ) |
| 20 | On social and environmental matters , the Labour party believes that there should be qualified majority voting in the ministerial Council , which is composed of a group of men and women already democratically accountable to their national Parliaments . |
| 21 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives which is popularly elected for five years and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister ( currently Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson ) and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 22 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives , popularly elected for five years , and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 23 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 24 | Usually a proposal will be composed of a number of variants rather than a single ‘ take-it-or-leave-it ’ proposition . |
| 25 | The stem is composed of a number of rings . |
| 26 | The " broad acres " of a landed estate were in fact composed of a number of farms , each yielding a rent paid by the tenant farmer who worked the farm . |
| 27 | This pleasant hotel with first-rate service is composed of a collection of cottages ; I prefer it to the more expensive Fort Aguada , also owned by the Taj . |
| 28 | he charts are composed of a list of items , each of which describes a specific linguistic skill or ability . |
| 29 | Is composed of a set of courses structured to allow maximum flexibility . |
| 30 | In the crudest analyses , working-class racism is interpreted as composed of a set of falsehoods perpetrated by one , or a combination , of the following agencies : capital , the ruling class , the mass media , and the state . |