Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Dolores came out of the cottage with mugs of coffee for them .
2 In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them .
3 The search for details of buildings now gone is as fascinating as that of the discovery of features of those that remain .
4 For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn .
5 The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) .
6 Sites D thirty nine and D forty are in any case not located within the built-up area of the settlement in terms of Greenbelt Plan Policy Four .
7 Dr Nurhan Atacey , Dean of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University , and a leading expert on Turkish and Persian miniature painting , Iznik pottery and Turkish textiles , is curating the exhibition and writing the catalogue .
8 Hydrologists measure the drying out of the soil in terms of the amount of rainfall that would be needed to make water just begin to move downwards again .
9 The Windsor whose marriage has caused more intrigue than most poked fun at the speculation with his light-hearted remarks as president of the Court of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre .
10 She was co-opted to the Glamorgan county education committee , and became a member of the court of governors of the University of Wales .
11 THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business .
12 So we read in the minutes of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Weavers , London , for Tuesday 2 January 1798 : ‘ William Chas .
13 Minutes of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Weavers , Basinghall Street , London , 2 January , 1798 .
14 In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence .
15 The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 .
16 That survey inspired Edinburgh District Council 's Women 's Committee to organise a pioneering campaign which aimed to raise male awareness of the problem of crimes of violence against women .
17 one can have a use that does not come within any of the specified classes but the activity either comes within the use specified or it does not and there is no scope for the management of the problem in terms of facts and degree .
18 Specification of the problem in terms of u τ and Θ H is particularly useful in application to the atmospheric boundary layer , as these are often known when the dynamics of the whole system are not .
19 The Italian Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis , speaking in his current capacity as President of the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , said that " I hope this is the first step towards complete compliance with UN resolutions " .
20 The 11th session of the Council of Ministers of the South Asian Association of Regional Co-Operation ( SAARC ) , held in Colombo , Sri Lanka , on July 8-9 , agreed to the drafting of a SAARC preferential trading agreement for submission to the SAARC summit in December 1992 .
21 Angela Cunningham , Project Officer for Southern Africa , and Gillian Peace , Assistant Project Officer for Southern Africa , will be visiting Mozambique from April 19 to 25 to attend a meeting of the Council of Churches of Mozambique ( CCM ) .
22 In Tanzania he is attending an evaluation and annual conference of the Council of Churches of Tanzania ( CCT ) and visiting projects funded by Christian Aid .
23 The chair of the Ostankino Russian State Television and Radio Company , Yegor Yakovlev , was dismissed by Yeltsin on Nov. 25 , following criticism by Akhsarbak Galazov , the Chairman of North Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Republics [ see p. 39203 ] , of a documentary broadcast by Ostankino on Nov. 23 about the North Ossetia-Ingush conflict [ see below ] .
24 José Francisco Pena Gómez of the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , reported to have come third with 25 per cent of votes cast , called on May 17 for national understanding and the formation of a government of reconciliation , to end the polarization of the country into followers of the two major candidates , whose personalities had dominated the campaign .
25 The armed forces , he said , had been in complete control of the country within days of the 1973 coup .
26 On the other hand , it is the librarians who are more conscious of the multiplicity of types of information with which the Information Revolution presents us .
27 There is a problem here of the multiplicity of representations of zero , so such a test is usually only for true zero .
28 Firstly , the significance of the event in terms of its meaning is important .
29 Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent .
30 Does not the court indicate that it is necessary to inquire into the adequacy of the consideration in cases of this type ?
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