Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 2 | ‘ The less-favoured farming areas shall include mountain areas , in which farming is necessary to protect the countryside , particularly for reasons of protection against erosion or in order to meet leisure needs ; they shall also include other areas where the maintenance of a minimum population or the conservation of the countryside are not assured . ’ |
| 3 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 4 | I find it extraordinary ( sour grapes ? ) that the law adjustments made for reasons of safety in the later rounds should be considered a matter for enquiry by some absentees from the event . |
| 5 | For reasons of continuity from the old , a fundamental unit of data in the new hyper-medium is a document . |
| 6 | While Hartlepool are looking upwards , towards Newcastle and Sunderland in the new First Division , the Quakers are back in the basement , scraping for scraps of hope with York and Scarborough . |
| 7 | So far I 'd acquired all my know-how about birds of prey from books and first-hand experience . |
| 8 | While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 9 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 10 | Last night , Stephen Eades of Southport-based environmental group Save our Shoreline , which has campaigned for protection of nature amid Hamilton Oil 's exploration , said : ‘ We are concerned that the exploration does not disturb the environment and would rather these advances were in renewable energy sources . ’ |
| 11 | Party Rates : … 20 or more full price seats together qualified for reduction of £1.00 per ticket |
| 12 | The European Commission has adopted draft legislation on integrated pollution prevention and control aimed at achieving " a balanced system for reduction of emissions from industrial installations into the air , water and soil " . |
| 13 | The superhelical densities indicated correspond to those observed under the ionic strength conditions used in the transcription assays ( see Methods , section for preparation of plasmids with different superhelical densities ) . |
| 14 | We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches . |
| 15 | Bishop Crowley appointed as Chairman of CAFOD in 1988 . |
| 16 | Just as Chairman of governors of the local boys school , we 've er , as Mr knows only too well , have written on a number of occasions erm saying how soon will the er these measures be brought forward , and I welcome them and er hope that we will agree them . |
| 17 | He left his job as Chairman of Ratners in November and was busy searching up and down the country for another shop . |
| 18 | The term ‘ cloning ’ refers to a method of asexual reproduction , such as grafting of varieties of apples , whereby all offspring are exact genetic replicas of the parent stock . |
| 19 | APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN THE REGISTER OF FOREIGN LAWYERS |
| 20 | For change of parties on application , see Chapter 5 . |
| 21 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 22 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 23 | These buildings are now almost equally at risk from insensitive conversion as they are from demolition because a softening in the attitude of local planning authorities towards proposals for change of use of agricultural buildings has recently been encouraged by central government in an attempt to ameliorate the worsening financial circumstances of farmers . |
| 24 | The six participants also took a risk in buying the building without planning permission , but some months later they obtained consent for change of use from school premises to residential/studio units and the architect was able to instruct a builder to commence Stage 1 — the conversion of the building into six basic , serviced ‘ shells ’ . |
| 25 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 26 | This gives a starting point from which to look for patterns of discrepancy in the subcategories . |
| 27 | This will not , however , address the deficiencies of local storage facilities on those occasions , such as immunisation of children at school , when vaccines need to be transported to other sites . |
| 28 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the judge held that both claims failed for want of proof of causation . |
| 30 | The supreme dread of everyone who cares for the good of the nation or race is that men should be adrift for want of anchorage for their convictions … |