Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 2 | Many necessary data sets were unavailable for reasons of administrative inadequacies , confidentiality constraints , cost or non-collection in certain countries ; |
| 3 | Thais campaign for protection of western forests |
| 4 | Sir : Did Sarah Helm ( 3 October ) attend the same Society for Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) conference as I did ? |
| 5 | Hungary proposed 18 tariff increases after the government ‘ heroically resisted ’ calls for protection of 1,000 items . |
| 6 | [ For attitudes of Islamic countries as expressed at Non-Aligned Movement summit see p. 39122 . ] |
| 7 | In combination with the alkaline lysis method for preparation of bacterial lysates , this constitutes a rapid and effective method for the isolation of plasmid DNA for sequencing and other purooses . |
| 8 | The Association will carefully monitor the take up of Vocational Qualifications by the industry and the country-wide acceptance of NVQs as nationally recognised qualifications : in the meantime it is apparent that there is a well defined need for flexible and modular provision of learning support and underpinning knowledge for those who are working towards competences , which can be assessed for award of Vocational Qualifications . |
| 9 | As far back as the eighteenth century , and probably before , trial reports about cases of sexual crimes , adultery and non-traditional sexual practices have been constructed as a genre of pornography . |
| 10 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 11 | Also for creative arts , a weekly period of music and art would be insufficient ; rather , a rotational arrangement should be employed which allowed pupils to spend more time on music , say , for part of two years , with the opportunity for work in art and perhaps drama at other times ' . |
| 12 | At Great Dun Fell in Cumbria , which is under cloud for part of 250 days a year , cloud is on average four times as acid as rain at the same spot , with more than twice the ammonium , nitrate and sulphur . |
| 13 | The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers . |
| 14 | However , the airline 's firm orders for 20 Airbus A321 medium-range jets and 28 McDonnell Douglas jets will not be delivered until the mid-1990s , and unlike some other European airlines , Alitalia is thought vulnerable for want of international partners and a strategy for deregulation of the European market after 1992 . |
| 15 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 16 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 17 | ( Growth rates of two per cent per annum , as experienced by Poland after 1978 , do not produce EEC-style sluggishness , but breakdowns in deliveries and services and factories unable to function for want of necessary parts . ) |
| 18 | To do so would not , on Mr Miller 's terms , increase the penalty ; it would merely mean that the criminal could escape the more easily for want of key witnesses . |
| 19 | Gabriel let the sing-song rise and fall of Garvey 's voice lull him into a stillness , while his eyes travelled ( for want of interesting faces ) over the even rows of brick cladding the manor house , and the iron-outlined figures of the saints in the stained-glass chapel window . |
| 20 | Tawney wrote of the great waste of ‘ exceptional talent , which is sterilised for want of educational opportunities ’ . |
| 21 | It is amusing but totally unhelpful of understanding to regard all these events as legally ineffective for want of constitutional vires . |
| 22 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , other elements of prison life are equally important , such as the amount of time prisoners are kept cooped up in cells and the lack of opportunities for activities of all kinds . |
| 23 | Both Master and Mistress of Animals are shown between pairs of attendant animals or walking accompanied by a lion or lioness . |
| 24 | A scatterplot is needed to assess the linearity assumption underlying each correlation or regression coefficient between pairs of quantitative variables . |
| 25 | Sets can be described by listing their members between pairs of curly brackets ( also called braces ) . |
| 26 | … to outline a system of geomorphology grounded in basic principles of mechanics and fluid dynamics , that will enable geomorphic processes to be treated as manifestations of various types of shear stresses , both gravitational and molecular , acting upon any type of earth material to produce the varieties of strain , or failure , which we recognize as the manifold processes of weathering , erosion , transportation and deposition . |
| 27 | Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality , they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models . |
| 28 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |
| 29 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 30 | Even then , there are numerous examples to choose as illustrations of regulated industries : the postal service , electricity distribution , taxi services , opticians , asbestos manufacturing . |