Example sentences of "of a [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identify , through unstructured interviews , the primary health concerns of a spectrum of women in South Wales ; 2 . |
| 2 | Analysis of the velocity distribution will reveal a ‘ vibrational spectrum ’ in the form of a spectrum of energy-losses by the particles . |
| 3 | General practice and primary care need to be centre stage to ensure that the rhetoric of a transfer of resources from secondary to primary care does not actually entail an overall loss of resources . |
| 4 | Note that in relation to the exemption of a transfer of assets by a company , the shares must be issued to the shareholders of the transferring company and not the transferring company itself in order to fall within the exemption . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 6 | The first of these is an intensive examination of the employees of a sample of firms to be included in the core survey . |
| 7 | This project made possible : a ) an extensive literature review ; b ) an investigation of the availability for local labour markets of secondary data on training provision and ‘ skill ’ levels ; and c ) a pilot telephone survey of a sample of employers in Mid Glamorgan on their recruitment and training strategies . |
| 8 | Bottle reports that 41% of a sample of papers on chemistry contained citations to the thesis of one or more of the authors of the papers , or other references to that author 's thesis , such as the paper being ‘ in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Ph D degree ’ . |
| 9 | However , more detailed analysis based on an evaluation of a sample of companies within UDG schemes were less sanguine ( Aston University , 1988 ; Johnson , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 11 | The costs of theatre and endoscopic procedures were estimated by direct observation of a sample of procedures on trial patients . |
| 12 | The information will be obtained through questionnaire surveys of a sample of households in selected districts of the city . |
| 13 | The analysis involves close examination of a sample of markets in which significant entry has occurred . |
| 14 | Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles . |
| 15 | Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory . |
| 16 | Woodward described the findings of a survey of firms in Essex . |
| 17 | He could also shorten the period in which residents could make a claim for compensation and alter the cost of a survey of buildings outside the protected property area . |
| 18 | The thermal printer works in much the same way as an impact matrix printer in that instead of a column of needles in the printing head it has a column of heating elements . |
| 19 | Their paths about Earth were variously epicyclic and prompted a study of a geometry of curves for some 2000 years . |
| 20 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 21 | The report , which examined whether industry , commerce and the police had sufficient specialist advice to assist in the detection and investigation of offences , recommends that business and the Government highlight the cost of computer misuse as part of an overall promotion of computer security awareness ; conduct regular surveys of the incidence of computer misuse ; and encourage the development of a directory of suppliers of expert advice . |
| 22 | The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery . |
| 23 | Thirdly , farmers are often heard to complain of a shortage of workers on the land . |
| 24 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 25 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 26 | There was the roaring and stamping of a herd of drunks at the other end of the corridor . |
| 27 | On 17 September 1991 Rose J. granted him leave to apply for judicial review and directed that a preliminary issue be determined whether the High Court has any jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of visitors to the Inns of Court . |
| 28 | In this paper the unfairness of this professional attitude is argued and encouragement given to the need for residential care to be seen as part of a continuum of services for children in care . |
| 29 | It is important to emphasise that , as we have defined it , transparency is the end-point of a continuum of degrees of opacity , much as ‘ cleanness ’ is the end-point of a continuum of ‘ degrees of dirtiness ’ ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 30 | The legislature consists of a Chamber of Deputies of 254 members elected directly for four-year terms with half of the seats renewable every two years , and a 46-member Senate nominated by the legislatures of each of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms with one-third of the seats renewable every three years . |