Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not clear whether this has been the result of state intervention or of changes in the structure of production . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 3 | The precedent is being established that Community law , whether this takes the form of Commission Directives or of judgments by the Court of Justice , overrides national law if the two are in conflict . |
| 4 | will the work consist primarily of quantitative measurements or of observations of flow patterns ? |
| 5 | It means a dispute between workers and their employer which relates wholly or mainly to one or more of the following : terms and conditions ( including physical conditions ) of employment : engagement , non-engagement , termination or suspension of employment or of duties of employment ; matters of discipline ; membership or non-membership of a trade union ; facilities for union officials ; machinery for negotiation or consultation and other procedures , including recognition of unions . |
| 6 | Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association . |
| 7 | First , it is obviously impractical to solve the problems of war-torn African states or of conflicts in countries such as Sri Lanka by moving their populations to western Europe . |
| 8 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 9 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 10 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 12 | That is equivalent to regarding the particular arrangement of rocks in a mountain , or of bits of metal in a scrap-heap , as " complex " . |
| 13 | A wrongful possession of land for twelve years , or of goods for six years , destroys not only the former owner 's right to recover the land or goods by action , but also his title ; and so the possessor has the best of titles known to the law — a possession which no one can dispute . |
| 14 | For being is always defined as the appropriation of either difference into identity , or of identities into a greater order , be it absolute knowledge , History , or the state . |
| 15 | He is responsible for presenting to the council and its committees all matters of business which are brought to his notice , either from members of the public , members of the council or from the officers themselves , and of recording the decisions , either by way of minutes of the committees or of reports of the committees which are subsequently presented to the council . |
| 16 | At 27 , he started his own photographic agency and went on to make films on the proceeds , using the talents of advertising colleagues such as Alan Parker or of friends like Ray Connolly . |
| 17 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 18 | The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design . |
| 19 | Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package . |
| 20 | 63a ) provides convincing evidence of date , or of details of decoration which are comparable with other mosaics in the region . |
| 21 | In spite of last-minute adjustments some of the approximately 40 opposition parties complained that constituency boundaries were weighted in favour either of conservative-minded voters in the thinly populated south or of voters in areas where anti-clerical Berber parties were strong . |
| 22 | In practice , many States seem willing to adopt a generous view of the scope of the Convention , responding to requests to obtain the results of blood-grouping tests ( at least where the subject is willing ) and to provide copies of public documents or of entries in registers of civil status . |
| 23 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 24 | Contributions by partners or participants may consist of cash or of contributions in kind . |
| 25 | The first exemption , which is most pertinent to takeovers , is contained in s103(3) , which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in the company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) . |
| 26 | If the argument mentioned in relation to s89 is correct in respect of that section then it should be equally applicable to s131(1). ( 3 ) Section 103(3) provides that s103(1) ( requiring a valuation in respect of shares allotted by a public company for a non-cash consideration ) does not apply to " … the allotment of shares by a company in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in that company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) " . |
| 27 | Whether the buy-out will be of the business assets of the target , or of shares in the target company , is significant for tax purposes . |
| 28 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 29 | The Act is an enabling one and does not affect the existing system unless the leadership of the churches wish to co-operate in a reshaping of the system or of schools in any particular area . |
| 30 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |