Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] for [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in view of the outlook for prices of both oil and gas , the company decided to write down the carrying value of its production , development and exploration assets in an exceptional depletion charge totalling £24½m . |
| 2 | The effect of diabetes on the eye is usually monitored by measurement of visual acuity and examination of the retina for signs of the disease . |
| 3 | This resentment was strengthened still further in 1898 when as part of the struggle for slices of the Chinese ‘ melon ’ Russia herself took out a twenty-five year lease on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula . |
| 4 | report on the reliability and validity of the scale for samples of speech collected both naturalistically , as in the original project and in a variety of more structured situations . |
| 5 | There were two problems back then : first , collectors tend to have an inflated idea of the value of their work , and second , since they feared the IRS ( Inland Revenue Service ) would question any evaluation they gave , they overvalued everything , The IRS got to the point where , because of the abuses , it was prepared to recommend to Congress the abolition of the deduction for donations of works of art . |
| 6 | The part of the form for particulars of the judge 's finding was left blank . |
| 7 | On checking artists , names appended it appears that up to 1756 Jeffreys did most of the engraving for Figures of Plants but thereafter his name disappears except for the odd plate , which may well have been made earlier . |
| 8 | Teachers like Hardy were well aware of the need for adaptions of the kind which Davies associates with a wider shift from " authoritive monologue " to open-ended conversation . " |
| 9 | Studies during Phase 1 of the Oral Therapy Extension Programme ( described in the previous chapter ) revealed success in educating the Bangladeshi mothers about the concept of the lobon-gur solution , but there was a ( seemingly paradoxical ) low usage rate of the solution for cases of diarrhoea . |