Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Product-container compatibility includes all possible interactions between product and container such as absorption of constituents of the product by the container , leaching of constituents of the container by the product , corrosion or other adverse effects of the product on the container and the barrier properties of the container ; that is , its effectiveness in protecting the contents from the adverse effects of atmospheric oxygen and/or water vapour and in retaining water and other volatile constituents of the product . |
| 5 | The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively . |
| 6 | The agreement , subject to ratification by the Federal Senate , provided for payment of arrears of US$2,000 million in 1991 , of which 45 per cent was payable immediately and the rest in equal monthly instalments by December 1991 . |
| 7 | As this is often linked up with annuities , endowment policies and private pension plans , several of the major life assurance companies , such as the Legal and General Assurance Society ( address on page 155 ) run their own courses as a service for their prospective pensioners , for groups of employees of large companies , or for individuals from smaller companies . |
| 8 | Another way of achieving this would fall short of a recognised qualification or certificate but could amount to the giving of credits for completion of parts of a training course . |
| 9 | On this hypothesis there was clearly no place for review of findings of fact , in the sense of determining whether the evidence justified the application of a statutory term to particular facts . |
| 10 | In 1918 , shortly after publication of Moments of Vision , he wrote to John Galsworthy , |
| 11 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 12 | The second survey was conducted in 1976 for the Committee of Inquiry into the System of Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities ( Robinson Committee ) . |
| 13 | The last straw was when a totally serious Westite Unionist remarked that , as it was a shooting matter , he recommended that it should be left to the army to investigate as it had a lot of experience of shootings of one kind and another . |
| 14 | The formula also shows the number of moles of atoms of each element in one mole of molecules . |
| 15 | Detainees included women and children , and were virtually all civilians , tending to confirm the numerous reports of shooting of prisoners of war [ for UN report by Tadeusz Mazowiecki see p. 39035 ; for statements by Non-Aligned Movement on Yugoslavia issue see pp. 38937 ; 39122 ] . |
| 16 | Often it is a response to increasing international competition and may take the form of closure of branches of multinational corporations . |
| 17 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 18 | First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state . |
| 19 | Mills and Jordan ( 1980 ) examined timing sensitivity as a predictor of ASL learning , and discovered positive correlations between ability to discriminate patterns differing only in timing of onset of components of the pattern , and grade scores for sign language proficiency . |
| 20 | We have not filtered the annual data to avoid both a subjective decision on filter characteristics and the inflation of explained variance at the expense of loss of degrees of freedom . |
| 21 | His passionate belief that technology is a tool to be used with imagination for the benefit of mankind has inspired a generation of designers of buildings of all disciplines ’ . |
| 22 | He pleaded guilty to two charges of theft of articles of clothing . |
| 23 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 24 | The 11th congress of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared Prisoners ( Fedefam ) took place in the Chilean capital , Santiago , in early November , attended by delegates from 14 countries . |
| 25 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 26 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 27 | 1 member drawn from a panel of parents of pupils of school age nominated by the Lothian Federation of Parents and Parent-Teacher Associations ; |
| 28 | Creation of Council of Heads of Republics |
| 29 | Meeting of Council of Heads of Republics |
| 30 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |