Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are going to give you one week 's pay in respect of each couple of years of servi , years ' service . |
| 2 | The application of such a scheme to a set of documents should result in the ordering or arranging of that set of documents into groups or classes according to their subject content . |
| 3 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 4 | As a result , agents of the owner , who happen to be former principals of Sotheby 's , arranged for the procurement of another set of licenses from the Lebanon ’ . |
| 5 | In the absence of another list of names in the first entrée , the harmonie rustique of the reçit and the hautbois of the first entrée may probably be construed as the same people . |
| 6 | The idea of some set of things including a cause , all of it somehow involved in the occurrence of the effect , is explicit or implicit in our ordinary thinking about the world . |
| 7 | The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity . |
| 8 | We believe that if the wipers did start , even if certain changes had taken place in the situation , there would have occurred an instance of one or another member of this set of types of circumstances . |
| 9 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 10 | While it does not necessarily imply that defective pitting is associated with defective immunological activity , using the technique of differential interference contrast microscopy , this study has highlighted the existence of functional hyposplenism in alcoholic liver disease and suggests that defective splenic function may be an additional mechanism involved in the susceptibility of this group of patients to infection . |
| 11 | The combination of this group of activists with either the residents or the workers was likely to raise questions on the continued operation of the factory , rather than demands for it to be operated safely , as the activists refused to accept that it was possible to work safely with asbestos or other toxic substances , following their similar rebuttal of threshold limits for exposure to radiation in the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 12 | Tony Geraghty twice mentions the disappearance of Leslie 's aircraft , and the reader will realise from the context in which Geraghty discusses this incident that a loss of this number of men from a small unit was a serious matter . |
| 13 | So i it was a thriving and booming factory because of this supply of machines through |
| 14 | When I worked at St. Aldate 's we had a lot of these sort of characters on the edge of things , and erm they used to play very much upon the students ' consciences and I think I 'm just concerned that , you know , there are n't people out there listening who will open their homes up indiscriminately . |
| 15 | It 's got one of those kind of belts with that |
| 16 | I 'm gon na go through each one of those sort of variations in a bit more depth er later on . |
| 17 | Er I think it does , I think they should have one , one of those sort of places in every not in every complex , but in every estate . |
| 18 | They do not make the sort of sacrifice — the second mortgage , the move to a smaller house , the seven-day weeks , the abandonment of any thought of holidays for years on end -required of those starting up new commercial or , above all , industrial businesses . |
| 19 | So the problem before us is this : that whereas the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity is both logically and epistemologically indispensable , this distinction can not be defined in terms of any set of criteria under which individuals are re-identified and distinguished from species . |
| 20 | This illustrates a very important property of any set of lines through a point on a surface which are tangential ( share the same direction ) at that point . |
| 21 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |