Example sentences of "[det] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 2 | Horses can learn some of the vocabulary of others . |
| 3 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 4 | These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid . |
| 5 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 6 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 7 | It is thus clear that contestable market features help to explain some of the behaviour of firms in the eurobond market , i.e. that it is highly competitive , especially within the individual currency sectors , despite the market structure . |
| 8 | It was important to sketch in some of the history of developments in social policy . |
| 9 | ‘ I think the director and some of the cast of Fly-Buttons should be out front tonight . ’ |
| 10 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 11 | Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently . |
| 12 | For the initial tests trace statements were inserted to obtain the pixel counts for each of the range of exposures used to compute the two bounds . |
| 13 | The epic poet ‘ was aware neither of the falling of leaves in autumn nor of the passing away of generations . |
| 14 | The search for details of buildings now gone is as fascinating as that of the discovery of features of those that remain . |
| 15 | There were , of course , numerous forms and methods in which this ‘ law ’ expressed itself , but the most characteristic aspect was that of the transfer of resources to the socialist sector from the private commodity sector , and this is the process that — according to Preobrazhensky — imposes itself upon the socialist sector . |
| 16 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 17 | This naturally leads to another issue — that of the independence of children within their families . |
| 18 | The third element in the catalogue of community care problems is that of the provision of services itself . |
| 19 | The second barrier is that of the accessibility of lawyers . |
| 20 | The decision , which upheld that of the Chamber of Deputies in August [ see p. 38387 ] , was subject to ratification by the Attorney General 's Office , and meant that García could now be tried as an ordinary civilian on charges of " illicit personal enrichment " over 14 years in public office . |
| 21 | Therefore a more puzzling question is that of the history of cells which in these patients revert from CD45R0 to RA phenotype . |
| 22 | An allied but unresearched question is that of the extent of parents moving house within an area towards a popular school . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one statistic that needs to be found is that of the number of Londoners who would lose if the upper earnings limit on national insurance contributions were to be removed ? |
| 24 | The predominance of a small minority of cases is further illustrated if we use two further measures of the extent of the coverage in addition to the gross number of reports , that of the number of days and the number of pages in which each rape case is featured . |
| 25 | But the demands of modern approaches to the teaching of the subject , as well as the influence of research , have tended to move the writing of history away from narrative towards that of the study of themes . |
| 26 | The subject also expanded greatly in scope from that of the study of leys , and one theme which began to be explored was that of folklore . |
| 27 | Much of the income of rectories and vicarages consisted of tithes . |
| 28 | However , realizable assets are now much less important in any estimation of the wealth distribution in Britain , because so much of the wealth of individuals is held in the form of pension rights , wealth which is not immediately realizable , but which is contingent on survival beyond pensionable age . |
| 29 | Much of the performance of Windows on any PC is down to the compatibility of the hardware with the operating system , and Windows itself . |
| 30 | In fact , this augmented fourth chord is very frequently found as a predominant chord-shape in much of the music of composers such as Webern . |